July 10, 2024

Notice of Funding Opportunity: Children’s Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) Payment Program

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) released a new Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to improve access to quality health services.

The Children’s Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) Payment Program – HRSA-25-079, provides funding to freestanding children’s hospitals to train pediatric and other residents in graduate medical education programs and aims to provide balance in the level of federal graduate medical education funding.

The purpose of this grant is to compensate for the disparity in the level of federal graduate medical education (GME) funding for freestanding children’s teaching hospitals versus other types of teaching hospitals.

Freestanding children’s hospitals receive little to no GME funding from Medicare because children’s hospitals have a low Medicare caseload.

Applications are due by August 8, 2024

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Have questions? Join the technical assistance webinar to learn more about this funding opportunity, including application requirements.

Click Here to join webinar, July 18, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. ET

July 9, 2024

ACO Flex Model Office Hour – July 16

In this hour-long session, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) Innovation will provide an overview of the new ACO Primary Care Flex Model (ACO Flex Model, which will focus on primary care delivery in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (SSP).

The ACO Primary Care Flex Model (ACO PC Flex Model) is a voluntary model that will focus on:

• Primary care delivery in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (Shared Savings Program)
• Testing how prospective payments and increased funding for primary care in Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) impact:
  • health outcomes
  • quality
  • costs of care

In Addition, the flexible payment design will empower participating ACOs and their primary care providers to:

• Use more innovative, team-based, person-centered and proactive approaches to care

The model, which starts January 1, 2025, aims to grow participation in ACOs and the Shared Savings Program and increase the number of people with Medicare in an accountable care relationship.

CMS has released a Request for Applications and the application portal is open until August 1 for new or renewing ACOs who submitted an application to SSP by June 17, 2024.

CMS plans to announce applicants selected to participate in October 2024.

This model seeks to increase accountable care relationships for people with Medicare, especially those in rural and underserved communities.

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Office Hours: Tuesday, July 16, 2:00 p.m. ET

Click Here to Register for Office Hours

July 8, 2024

USDA Funding Opportunity: Broadband Technical Assistance Program, August 20

The Broadband Technical Assistance (BTA) program provides financial assistance through cooperative agreements to eligible entities to receive or deliver broadband technical assistance and training.

Eligible Applicants Include:

• Federal-recognized Tribes and Tribal entities
• State of local governments, including agencies and subdivisions
• Territories or possessions of the United States
• Institutions of higher education (including 1862 Land-Grant Institutions, 1890 Land-Grant Institutions, 1994 Land-Grant Institutions, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, and Historically Black Colleges and Universities
• Nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) IRS status
• Cooperatives or mutual organizations
• Corporations
• Limited Liability Companies or Limited Liability Partnerships

Applications are due by August 20, 2024, 11:59 p.m. ET

Click Here to Learn More and Apply

July 8, 2024

National Medical Fellowships – Health Equity Leaders Program for Underrepresented Professionals, Apply by August 12

This program provides students from groups that are underrepresented in health care, medical, and allied health professions with a learning opportunity in health equity services, scholarship, leadership and policy.

Eligible applicants must be:

• Currently enrolled in an accredited medical, graduate-level nursing, or physician assistant school
• Interested in working in underserved communities, and
• Part of a group NMF designates as underrepresented:
  • African American/Black
  • Hispanic/Latino
  • American Indian
  • Alaska Native
  • Asian American (Vietnamese or Cambodian only)
  • Native Hawaiian
  • Other Pacific Islander

Click Here to Learn More and Apply

July 8, 2024

New Funding Opportunity: Technology-enabled Collaborative Learning Program – HRSA-24-121

The Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA’S) Office for the Advancement of Telehealth will invest approximately $3,800,000 for up to eight new cooperative agreements.

In this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO), technology-enabled collaborative learning and capacity building model” means a distance health education model that connects health care professionals, and particularly specialists, with multiple other health care professionals through simultaneous interactive videoconferencing for the purpose of facilitating case-based learning, disseminating best practices  and evaluating outcomes.

The purpose of the Technology-enabled Collaborative Learning Program – HRSA-24-121, is to improve retention of health care providers and increase access to health care services, such as those to address chronic diseases and conditions including

• Alzheimer’s disease
• Infectious diseases
• Mental health and substance use disorders
• Prenatal and maternal health
• Pediatric care
• Pain management
• Palliative care and other specialty care in:
  • Rural areas
  • Frontier areas
  • Health professional shortage areas (HPSAs)
  • Medically underserved areas or medically underserved population or Native Americans

Awarded entities will evaluate, develop, and expand the use of technology-enable learning models to:

• Build capacity
• Improve retention of health care providers
• Increase access to services

Applications must be submitted no later than August 2, 2024.

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July 2, 2024

Funding Opportunity: Delta Region Maternal Care Coordination Program – Apply by August 2

The Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA’s) Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) expects to award up to four cooperative agreements for a total of approximately $7 million over four years.

The purpose of the Delta Region Maternal Care Coordination (Delta MCC) Program – HRSA-24-120 is to improve and increase access to care for pregnant women and new mothers during and after pregnancy.

Objectives:

• Use care coordination strategies to enhance and expand access to perinatal services in the Delta Region
• Utilize evidence-based, promising practices and/or value-based care models in the planning and delivery of perinatal services
• Identify barriers to providing maternal health care in the region and strategies for addressing such barriers
• Develop and implement deliberate and sustainable strategies of care coordination into policies, procedures, staffing, services and communication systems

Eligible applicants

• Public, private, or nonprofit organizations located within the parishes and counties served by the federal Delta Regional Authority.

An hour-long technical assistance webinar for applicants will be held on Tuesday, July 9 at 2:00 p.m. CT.

Learn More – HRSA-24-120

July 2, 2024

HRSA Funding Opportunity: Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention (NEPQR) – Workforce Expansion Program (WEP)

The purpose of the Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention (NEPQR) Workforce Expansion Program (WEP) is to increase the nursing workforce in rural (non-metro) and underserved areas to address the critical shortage of nurses, specifically in acute and long-term care settings.

The NEPQR-WEP enhances nursing education and clinical practice through additional training of associate and baccalaureate degree nursing students.

Apply by July 26, 2024

Questions? Contact Kirk Koyama, kkoyama@hrsa.gov, (301) 443-4926

Learn More about NEPQR – HRSA-24-098

July 2, 2024

HRSA Funding Opportunity: Pediatric Specialty Loan Repayment Program

The Pediatric Specialty Loan Repayment Program is accepting applications through July 9, 2024, 7:30 p.m. ET.

This program will award up to $100,000 in student loan repayment to eligible professionals in exchange for a three-year, full-time service commitment to work or participate in a fellowship or residency in a Pediatric Specialty Loan Repayment Program approved facility.

Eligibility

You must be:

• A United States citizen, national or permanent resident
• Fully licensed or credentialed in an eligible discipline
• One of the following:
• A full-time employee or a clinician who has accepted a position at a Pediatric Specialty LRP-approved facility, located in or serving a health professional shortage area (HPSA), a medically underserved area (MUA), or a medically underserved population (MUP)
• A health-professional entering or receiving training in an accredited pediatric medical subspecialty, pediatric surgical specialty residency, or fellowship at a Pediatric Specialty LRP-approved facility located in or serving a health professional shortage area (HPSA), a medically underserved area (MUA), or a medically underserved population (MUP)

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June 26, 2024

New Funding Opportunity – Delta Region Maternal Care Coordination Program – HRSA-24-120

The Health Resources and Services Administration has announced new funding available for the Delta Region Maternal Care Coordination Program, HRSA-24-120.

The focus of this funding opportunity is on strengthening maternal care and reducing disparities in the Delta Region, by expanding access and coordination of health care services before, during, and after pregnancy.

The funding will work to address unacceptable rates of maternal morbidity and mortality in the regions.

Up to four cooperative agreements will be awarded to recipients in the Delta region, totaling approximately $7 million over four years (September 30, 2024 – September 29, 2028).

The Federal Office of Rural Health Policy will hold a technical assistance webinar on Tuesday July 9^th from 3 – 4 p.m. ET.

Review the funding opportunity to learn more about eligibility & apply

For questions contact: Nikita Patel, DeltaMCCProgram@hrsa.gov, 301 594-3288

June 21, 2024

New Funding Opportunity: Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention (NEPQR) – Workforce Expansion Program (WEP) HRSA-24-098

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) released a new Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to increase the nursing workforce in rural (non-metro) and underserved areas to address the critical shortage of nurses, specifically in acute and long-term care settings.

The Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention (NEPQR) – Workforce Expansion Program (WEP) enhances nursing education and baccalaureate degree nursing students.

HRSA will award approximately $4.7 million to up to five grantees over a period of four years through this funding opportunity.

Eligible Applicants include:

• Accredited schools of nursing
• Entities that offer associate degrees in nursing, such as community colleges
• Hospitals and nurse-managed health centers
• Nursing homes and hospice facilities
• Federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics
• Native American tribal governments and organizations

View funding opportunity for complete eligibility information