January 21, 2025

Notice of Funding Opportunity: HRSA Rural Program of All-Inclusive for the Elderly Planning and Development

The Rural Program of All-Inclusive for the Elderly (PACE) Planning and Development grant is open and accepting applications for the program’s 4-year period of performance (September 30, 2025 – September 29, 2029). The purpose of this program is to improve health care in rural areas, including expanding access to medical care and long-term services, for rural aging populations by expanding PACE programs into rural areas.

Program Goals:

• Provide start-up funding for organizations to develop a new PACE site serving the aging rural population.
• Provide funding for organizations to expand existing PACE programs into rural areas through service area expansion.
• Implement sustainable PACE programs that will effectively serve critical health care needs for rural aging populations.

This funding will support organizations to develop an initial PACE program or expand an existing PACE organization into rural areas.

HRSA will make up to 4 awards, up to $500,000 per year, to provide resources to assist with the development of an initial Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (DMS) PACE program serving HRSA-designated rural areas or to expand an existing certified CMS PACE programs into HRSA-designated rural areas through PACE service area expansion.

Eligible Applicants

• Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
• Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
• For profit organizations other than small businesses
• Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
• Small businesses
• Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with th IRS, other than institutions of higher education
• Independent school districts
• Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
• Private institutions of higher education
• City or township governments
• County governments
• State governments
• Special district governments
• State and county health departments,
• Hospitals
• FQHCs
• Rural Health Clinics

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For more information about this funding opportunity, contact RuralPACE@hrsa.gov

January 13, 2025

New Funding Available: Rural Residency Planning and Development Program, Apply by April 10, 2025

The Rural Residency Planning and Development (RRPD) Program, HRSA-25-007, is open and accepting applications for the program’s 3-year period of performance (August 1, 2025 – July 31, 2028). The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) will make up to 15 awards, each up to $750,000, to improve and expand access to health care in rural areas by developing new sustainable rural residency programs, including rural track programs (RTPs).

Eligible applicants include all domestic public and private, nonprofit or for-profit, entities. Applicants must propose a new rural residency program in a qualifying medical specialty.

Qualifying medical specialties are:

• Family medicine
• Internal medicine
• Preventive medicine
• Psychiatry
• General surgery, and
• Obstetrics and gynecology

For this notice of funding opportunity, rural residency programs are accredited physician residency programs, train residents in clinical training sites that are physically located in a rural area as defined by HRSA’s Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) for greater than 50 percent of their total time in residency and focus on producing physicians who will practice in rural communities.

Successful RRPD Program awardees will:

1. Develop a new rural residency program that is accredited by Accreditation Council for Graduated Medical Education;
2. Finalize a sustainability plan, which includes ongoing funding streams to sustain long-term resident training after program establishment; and
3. Develop a plan to track and publicly report on resident career outcomes after graduation for at least 5 years after the first graduating class to assess retention in rural communities.

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Click Here to attend a technical assistance webinar, via Zoom, on Wednesday, January 23, 2:00 p.m. ET

A list of previously funded grants under this program are available here.

Applicants may also benefit from the resources and tools in the RuralGME.org portal (registration required).

For questions about this funding opportunity email: ruralresidency@hrsa.gov.