July 25, 2024

New Funding Opportunity: Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education (THCGME) Program HRSA-25-091

The purpose of the Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education (THCGME) Program is to support the training of residents in primary care residency training programs in community-based ambulatory patient care centers.

These residency programs will prepare residents to provide high-quality care, particularly in rural and underserved communities, and develop competencies to serve these diverse populations and communities.

This funding will support both the direct expenses associated with sponsoring approved graduate medical residency training programs and indirect expenses associated with the additional costs relating to teaching residents in residency training programs.

Two types of awards are available:

• Expansion awards for an increased number of resident Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) positions at existing HRSA THCGME Programs
• New awards to support new resident FTE positions at new Teaching Health Centers (THCs). New THCs are those applicants seeking funding for residency programs that have never received payment under the HRSA THCGME Program for the applicable residency program in any previous fiscal year.

You can apply if you are a community-based ambulatory patient care center that operates an accredited primary care center that operates an accredited primary care residency program, or has formed a GME consortium that operates an accredited primary care residency program, in one of the following specialties/disciplines:

• Family medicine
• Internal medicine
• Pediatrics
• Internal medicine pediatrics
• Obstetrics and gynecology
• Psychiatry
• General dentistry
• Pediatric dentistry
• Geriatrics

Applications due September 5, 2024 11:59 p.m. ET

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July 22, 2024

Health Workforce Partnership Meeting

Join the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to learn about HRSA health workforce programs and resources, as well as to discuss health workforce issues, including:

• Challenges
• Strategies and models to support the health workforce
• Current technical assistance needs
• Opportunities for collaboration

This meeting is offered in person only; there will not be a virtual option.

When: Thursday, August 1, 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Where: Trails Regional Library – Warrensburg Branch, 432 N. Holden Street, Warrensburg, MO

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July 22, 2024

Missouri Maternal Health Partnership Meeting

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) IEA Region 7 is hosting a Maternal Health Meeting in Warrensburg, Missouri.

Join this meeting to learn about HRSA maternal health programs and resources and discuss maternal health issues, including:

• Challenges in serving mothers and families,
• Strategies and models to support maternal health,
• Current technical assistance needs, and
• Opportunities for collaboration

This meeting is offered in person only; there will not be a virtual option.

When: Thursday, August 1, 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.

Where: Trails Regional Library – Warrensburg Branch, 432 N. Holden Street, Warrensburg, MO

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July 22, 2024

Upcoming Grants 101 Workshop

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) IEA Region 7 is hosting a free Grants 101 Workshop in Warrensburg, Colby, Missouri.

Attendees will learn about:

• The federal grant application process
• Where to find funding opportunities
• Strategies for putting together a successful application
• Resources to support their grant writing efforts

This workshop is offered in person only; there will not be a virtual option. You must register to attend this workshop.

Cost: Free

When: Wednesday, July 31, 12:30 – 4:30 p.m. CT

Where: Trails Regional Library – Warrensburg Branch, 432 N. Holden Street, Warrensburg, MO

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July 22, 2024

Notice of Funding Opportunity: New Access Points – HRSA-25-085

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) announces the opportunity to apply for New Access Points (NAP) funding under the Health Center Program.

The purpose of HRSA-25-085 is to support new health center service delivery sites to expand affordable, accessible, and high-quality primary care for underserved communities and populations.

Award recipients will use NAP funding to provide primary health care services at one or more new access points.

Eligible Applicants

• Native American tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments)
• Special district governments
• Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
• Independent school districts
• State governments
• City of township governments
• County governments
• Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)

Additional Eligibility Information

• 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

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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.

Learn More

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

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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

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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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