Deadline: 15-May-23
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has announced the Rural Health Care Coordination Program to promote rural health care services outreach by improving and expanding delivery of health care services through comprehensive care coordination strategies in rural areas.
This award is intended to serve as initial seed funding to implement creative community-based health solutions in rural communities to expand access to and coordination of care with the expectation that awardees will then be able to sustain the program after the federal funding ends.
Goals
The goals for the Rural Health Care Coordination Program are to:
- Expand access to and quality of equitable health care services through care coordination strategies exclusively in rural areas;
- Utilize an innovative evidence-based, promising practice, and/or value-based care model(s) that is known to, or demonstrates strong evidence to, improve patient health outcomes and the planning and delivery of patient-centered health care services;
- Increase collaboration among multi-sector and multidisciplinary network partnerships to address the underlying factors related to social determinants of health; and
- Develop and implement deliberate and sustainable strategies of care coordination into policies, procedures, staffing, services, and communication systems.
Funding Information
HRSA estimates approximately $3,000,000 to be available annually to fund 10 recipients. You may apply for a ceiling amount of up to $300,000 annually (reflecting direct and indirect costs) per year.
Outcomes
At the end of the four years, applicants should be able to contribute to the following outcomes:
- Expanded access to and affordability of quality comprehensive care coordination leading to cost savings and overall health improvement status;
- Improved patient health outcomes through the utilization of chronic care management, and/or preventive and wellness services;
- Institutionalized care coordination strategies within their policies, procedures, staffing, services, and communication systems;
- Implemented a multidisciplinary and multi-sector referral system; and
- Identified a variety of funding and financing mechanisms to continue comprehensive care coordination strategies beyond the initial FORHP grant funding.
Eligibility Criteria
- Independent school districts.
- Private institutions of higher education.
- State governments.
- Special district governments.
- Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification).
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education.
- City or township governments.
- County governments.
- Eligible applicants include domestic public or private, non-profit or for-profit entities, including faith-based, community-based, tribes, and tribal organizations. The applicant organization may be located in a rural or urban area, but must have demonstrated experience serving, or the capacity to serve, rural underserved populations. The applicant organization should describe in detail their experience and/or capacity to serve rural populations in the Project Abstract section of the application.
- The applicant organization must represent a network composed of members that include three or more health care providers. For the purposes of this funding opportunity, the terms “consortium” and “network” are used interchangeably. The applicant organization may not previously have received an award under 42 U.S.C. 254c(e) from the HRSA Federal Office of Rural Health Policy for the same or a similar project unless the applicant is proposing to expand the scope of the project or the area that will be served through the project.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.