Deadline: 25-Oct-21
Applications are now open for Service Area Competition to ensure continued access to comprehensive, culturally competent, high-quality primary health care services for communities and populations currently served by the Health Center Program.
This notice announces the opportunity to apply for funding under the Health Center Program’s Service Area Competition-Additional Areas (SAC-AA). The Health Center Program supports domestic public or private, nonprofit community-based and patient directed organizations that provide primary health care services to the Nation’s medically underserved populations.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Total Annual Available Funding: Approximately $2,455,955
- Your application must document an understanding of the need for primary health care services in the service area and propose a comprehensive plan that demonstrates compliance with the Health Center Program requirements.
- The plan must ensure the availability and accessibility of primary health care services to all individuals in the service area and target population, regardless of ability to pay.
- Your plan must include collaborative and coordinated delivery systems for the provision of health care to the underserved.
Type of Application and Award
Types of applications sought:
- Competing continuation: A current Health Center Program award recipient that seeks to continue serving its current service area.
- New: An organization that is not currently funded through the Health Center Program that seeks to serve an announced service area through the proposal of one or more permanent service delivery sites.
- Competing supplement: A current Health Center Program award recipient that seeks to serve an announced service area, in addition to its current service area, through the addition of one or more new permanent service delivery sites.
Eligibility Criteria
- You must be a domestic public or private, nonprofit entity, as demonstrated through the submission of the Evidence of Non-profit/Public Center Status. Faith-based and community-based organizations, Tribes, and tribal organizations are eligible to apply.
- You must propose in the RESPONSE section of the Project Narrative to operate a health center that makes all required primary health care services9 available and accessible in the service area, either directly or through established arrangements, without regard for ability to pay. You may not propose to provide ONLY a single service or any subset of the required primary health care services.
- You must propose on Form 5A: Services provided to make General Primary Medical Care available directly (Column I) and/or through formal written contractual agreements in which the health center pays for the service (Column II).
- You must provide continuity of services, ensuring availability and accessibility of services to residents of the service area, by proposing to serve an announced service area.
- You must propose to provide access to services for all individuals in the service area and target population, as described in the RESPONSE section of the Project Narrative. In instances where one or more services will be provided at a location that targets a sub-population. You must ensure that all health center services will be made available and accessible to others who seek services at the proposed site(s). You may not propose to serve only a single sub-population.
- PUBLIC HOUSING PRIMARY CARE APPLICANTS ONLY: If you are a new or competing supplement applicant applying for 330(i) funding, you must demonstrate that you have consulted with residents of public housing in the preparation of the SAC-AA application. You must also ensure ongoing consultation with the residents regarding the planning and administration of the health center, as documented in the COLLABORATION section of the Project Narrative.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=335446