Deadline: 15-Oct-2024
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) announces notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the Service Area Competition (SAC).
Through the SAC, organizations compete for Health Center Program funding to provide comprehensive primary health care services in service areas and to patient populations already served by the Health Center Program.
Purpose
- To ensure continuity of affordable, accessible, and high-quality primary health care in the communities and populations currently served by the Health Center Program.
Program Objective(s)
- Improve the health of underserved populations, including individuals and families experiencing homelessness, migratory and seasonal agricultural workers, and residents of public housing by delivering comprehensive, culturally competent, high-quality primary health care and supportive services.
- Provide services regardless of the patient’s ability to pay.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Available Funding: Approximately $244,461,600
- Estimated Number and Type of Award(s): Up to 88: competing continuation, competing supplement, and new awards
- Period of Performance: May 1, 2025 through April 30, 2028 (up to 3 years)
- Estimated Annual Award Amount: Varies
Eligibility Criteria
- Your organization must be a private, non profit entity or a public agency in the United States or its territories. Tribal and urban Indian organizations may apply.
- Your organization must provide all required health services4 available and accessible in the service area 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.
- Your organization must provide General Primary Medical Care directly and/or through contracts the health center pays for.
- Your organization must perform a substantive role in the project.
- You must make services accessible to all. You may not propose to serve only a single age group or address a single health issue or disease. If you propose a site that targets only a sub-population (e.g., a school-based site), you must explain how you will make all required services available to the entire underserved population in the service area.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.