November 14, 2023

New Funding Opportunity – Rural Residency Planning and Development (RRPD) Program – HRSA-24-022

The Rural Residency Planning and Development (RRPD) Program provides start-up funding to new rural residency programs, including rural track programs, to address physician workforce shortages in rural communities in:

• Family Medicine
• Internal Medicine
• Psychiatry
• General Surgery
• Preventive Medicine
• obstetrics and gynecology

The purpose of the Rural Residency Planning and Development (RRPD) Program  program is to improve and expand access to health care in rural areas by developing new, sustainable rural residency programs, including rural track programs (RTPs) to address the physician workforce shortages and challenges faced by rural communities.

For the purposes of this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO), rural residency programs are accredited physician residency programs that train residents in rural training sites for greater than 50 percent of their total time in residency, and focus on producing physicians who will practice in rural communities. This includes programs that meet ACGME RTP Designation, including both new programs and permanent complement increases for new rural training site(s) for existing programs.

There are two pathways for this program:

• General Primary Care and High Need Specialty Pathway
• Maternal Health and Obstetrics Pathway.

General Primary Care and High Need Specialty Pathway – supports the development of new rural residency training programs that focus on training to meet significant rural health needs.

Eligible specialties:

• Family medicine
• Internal medicine
• Preventive medicine
• Psychiatry
• General surgery

Maternal Health and Obstetrics Pathway – supports the development of new rural residency programs with a focus on training to provide high quality, evidence-based maternity care and obstetrical services in rural areas.

Eligible specialties:

• Obstetrics-gynecology
• Family medicine with enhanced obstetrical training
• Enhanced obstetrical residency training must provide family medicine residents with extensive clinical experience in comprehensive maternity care, as outlined in ACGME’s program requirements, including dedicated training on labor and delivery and operative obstetrics.
• These programs must have faculty with clinical expertise to prepare family medicine residents for the independent practice of obstetrics in rural communities.

Eligible Applicants Include:

• Rural Hospitals
• Graduate Medical Education Consortiums, including:
  • universities
  • Historically Black Colleges and Universities
  • Tribal Organizations

Application closes February 12, 2024

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October 26, 2023

New Funding Opportunity: Rural Health Network Development Planning Program – HRSA-24-007

The purpose of the Rural Health Network Development Planning Program (“Network Planning Program”) is to plan and develop integrated health care networks that collaborate to address the following legislative aims:

• Achieve efficiencies
• Expand access to and improve the quality of basic health care services and health outcomes
• Strengthen the rural health care system

This program supports one year of planning and brings together members of the health care delivery system, particularly those entities that may not have collaborated in the past, to establish and/or improve local capacity in order to strengthen rural community health interventions and enhance care coordination.

The Network Planning Program uses the concept of developing networks as a strategy toward linking rural health care network members together to address local challenges, and help rural stakeholders achieve greater collective capacity to overcome challenges related to limited economies of scale for individual hospitals, clinics or other key rural health care stakeholders.

Eligible Applicants

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

Additional Information on Eligibility

You can apply if your organization is in the United States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, or the Republic of Palau, and represents one or more of the following entity types:

• Public or private
• Non-profit or for-profit Community-based
• Tribal governments (governments, organizations)

The applicant organization may be located in a rural or urban area, but must have demonstrated experience serving, or the capacity to serve, rural underserved populations, as communicated in the applicant organizations Project Abstract section of the application, describing in detail the applicant organizations experience and/or capacity to serve rural populations.

Approximately 30 awards, each up to $100,000, will allow networks to conduct planning activities over the course of one year with the goal of expanding access and improving quality of care in the rural communities they serve.

The Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) will host a one-hour webinar for applicants via Zoom on Tuesday November 14 at 3:00 ET.

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Applications Due January 26, 2024

Grantor Contract Information:

Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

Nikem Osian (301) 443-2751 or email nosian@hrsa.gov

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October 17, 2023

Funding Opportunity – Early Hearing Detection and Intervention State/Territory Program – HRSA-24-036

This notice announces the opportunity to apply for funding under the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) State/Territory Program. The purpose of this program is to enhance the state/territory EHDI system infrastructure to improve language acquisition for deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children up to age 3. Funding will support state and territory EHDI systems of services so that DHH newborns, infants, and young children up to age 3 receive appropriate and timely services, including hearing screening, diagnosis, and early intervention (EI).

Who Can Apply?

• Any state
• District of Columbia
• Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
• Northern Mariana Islands
• Guam
• American Samoa
• S. Virgin Islands
• Micronesia
• Republic of the Marshall Islands
• Republic of Palau

In addition, you can apply if your organization is in the United States and is:

• Public or private, non-profit
• Community-based
• Tribal (governments, organizations, as those terms are defined at 25 U.S.C. § 450b)
  • Native American tribal governments (federally recognized) are eligible
  • Native American tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments) are eligible.

Watch the August 23, 2023 technical assistance webinar for more information

Get answers to Frequently Asked Questions for this funding

Applications are Due November 6, 2023

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October 16, 2023

Rural Health Clinics Still Have the Opportunity to Apply

As announced by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) in January 2023, clinicians no longer need a federal waiver to prescribe buprenorphine for treatment of opioid use disorder. Clinicians will still be required to register with the federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to prescribe controlled medications. On June 27, the DEA began to require that registration applicants – both new and renewing – affirm they have completed a new, one-time, eight-hour training. Exceptions for the new training requi8rement are practitioners who are board certified in addiction medicine or addiction psychiatry, and those who graduated from a medical, dental, physician assistant, or advanced practice nursing school in the U.S. within five years of June 27, 2023.

Rural Health Clinics (RHCs) still have the opportunity to apply for a $3,000 payment on behalf of EACH provider who trained between January 1, 2019 and December 29, 2022 (when Congress eliminated the waiver requirement). Approximately $889,000 in program funding remains available for RHCs and will be paid on a first-come, first-served basis until the funds are exhausted.

How to Apply

• RHCs will need a System for Award Management (SAM) account in order to apply
  • For information on how to create a SAM account, visit gov
  • For help on setting up a SAM account, you can watch this helpful video
• RHCs will also need a HRSA Electronic Handbooks (EHBs) account in order to apply
  • To create a EHBs account, visit the EHBs Registration page.
  • For help on setting up a EHBs account, you can watch this helpful video on the Getting Started in the EHBs help page
• Apply through HRSA EHBs
  • Visit the EHBs login, and click the Organizations tab from the Menu bar
  • For more information on creating and checking the status of your application, visit the DATA 2000 Waiver Training Payment Program Help page

Watch this 11-minute video that explains the changes.

Please send questions to DATA2000WaiverPayments@hrsa.gov.

September 26, 2023

Now Open – National Health Service Corps Students to Service Loan Repayment Apply Now

The 2024 National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Students to Service Loan Application cycle is open through December 7, 2023.

If you are a student in your last year of medical, nursing, or dental school, you may be eligible to receive loan repayment assistance from the NHSC Students to Service Loan Repayment Program (NHSC S2S LRP).

In return, you provide at least three years of service at an NHSC approved site in a designated Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA).

Benefits of the S2S LRP:

• Service
  • By joining thousands of NHSC participants across the country, you have an opportunity to provide primary health services to communities in need.
• Loan Repayment
  • You will receive funds to repay your outstanding, qualifying, educational loans.
    • NHSC loan repayment funds are exempt from federal income and employment taxes.
    • You will receive up to $120,000 in loan repayment funds payable in four annual installments (up to $30,000 per year) as long as you meet program requirements.
    • In return, you agree to provide three years of full-time clinical practice at an NHSC approved site in a HPSA. (Full time clinical practice means at least 40 hours per week, for at least 45 weeks of service each service year.)
• Complete Repayment of Qualifying Loans
  • Once you complete the initial three-year service contract, you may be eligible to apply for additional loan repayment funds to pay any remaining educational loans through one-year continuation service contracts.
    • There is no guarantee that you will receive a continuation contract.

Application and Program Guidance

Application Process, Requirements and Guidance

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• If you do not have one, create a Bureau of Health Workforce Customer Service Portal
• If you have a BHW Customer Service Portal account, select Applying for the Students to Service Loan Repayment Program and log in.

September 22, 2023

Funding Opportunity – Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education (THCGME) Program Applications – HRSA-24-051 – Due by October 10

The Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education (THCGME) Program HRSA-24-051 is an opportunity to apply for continuation awards to support maintenance of filled resident Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) positions that are funded by HRSA under announcement HRSA-20-011 for an additional four years.

The purpose of the THCGME opportunity is to provide funding to support the training of residents in primary care residency training programs in community-based ambulatory patient care centers.

Funding through this opportunity will support maintenance of approved HRSA-funded resident positions for existing HRSATHCGME Program payment recipients only.

Applications seeking support for an expanded number of resident FTE positions and/or establishment of new resident FTE positions will not be considered under this notice.

Awards mad through this notice may be used to support the costs associated with resident FTE training only.

An eligible entity is a current THCGME Program payment recipient that was awarded funding under HRSA-20-011.

Applications are due by October 10, 2023.

Contact HRSA: Kristin Gordon, kgordon@hrsa.gov, (301) 443-0337

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September 8, 2023

Health Professional Students’ Loan Repayment Application Open Now

Health Professions Students: Pay off school debt through this Federal Loan Repayment Program.

Are you approaching your final year of school and need help paying off your debt? Consider applying for the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Students to Service Loan Repayment Program. Medical, Physician assistant, nursing and dental students can get money for school loans in exchange for serving in a community of need.

Receive up to $120,000 in addition to a competitive salary and benefits for three years of full-time service or part-time for six years. This year, there is an additional $40,000 supplement for medical students who commit to providing OB/GYN services in a maternity care target area.

Deadline to apply for this program is December 7, 2023. The National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Students to Service Loan Repayment Program is a federal government program administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).

Learn More and Apply

August 25, 2023

Notice of Funding Opportunity – Early Hearing Detection and Intervention State/Territory Program

This notice announces the opportunity to apply for funding under the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) State/Territory Program (HRSA-24-036).

The purpose of this program is to enhance the state/territory EHDI system infrastructure to improve language acquisition for deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children up to age 3. Funding will support state and territory EHDI systems of services so that DHH newborns, infants, and young children up to age 3 receive appropriate and timely services, including hearing screening, diagnosis, and early intervention (EI).

Who Can Apply

• Any state
• District of Columbia
• Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
• Northern Mariana Islands
• Guam
• American Samoa
• S. Virgin Islands
• Micronesia
• Republic of the Marshall Islands
• Republic of Palau

In addition, you can apply if:

• Your organization is in the United States and is:
  • Public or private, non-profit
  • Community-based
  • Tribal (governments, organizations, as those terms are defined at 25 U.S.C. § 450b)
  • Native American tribal governments (federally recognized) are eligible
  • Native American tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments) are eligible.

Apply by November 6, 2023

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August 25, 2023

Reduce Your Debt: Get Up to $120,000 in Tax-free Repayment!

Are you burdened with student loans? Don’t miss out on the chance to receive up to $120,000 in tax-free loan repayment with the National Health Service Corps Students to Service Loan Repayment Program (S2S LRP). In return, you provide at least three years of service at an NHSC-approved site in a designated Health Professional Shortage Area.

Do you meet these basic eligibility requirements?

• A United States (U.S) citizen or U.S. national
• Enrolled as a full-time student in the last year of a fully accredited medical, physician assistant, nursing, or dental school

Additional $40K available to eligible disciplines

New to this year’s application! The Maternity Care Target Area (MCTA) Supplemental Award is available to physicians specializing in obstetrics, gynecology, or family medicine physicians who practice obstetrics on a regular basis, as well as certified nurse midwives.

Get Ready to Apply