December 29, 2023

New Notice of Funding Opportunity – Physician Assistant Rural Training in Behavioral Health (PCTE-PARB) HRSA-24-019

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) released a new Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to increase the number of trained physician assistants who choose to practice in rural areas after graduation.

The Primary Care Training and Enhancement: Physician Assistant Rural Training in Behavioral Health (HRSA-24-019) aims to address the need to train primary care physician assistants to prevent, identify, diagnose, treat, and refer services for behavioral health conditions.

Eligible Applicants:

Only an academically affiliated physician assistant training program accredited by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education t=for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA) may apply. To be eligible, your organization must be in:

• The United States,
• The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico,
• The Northern Mariana Islands,
• American Samoa,
• Guam,
• The US Virgin Islands,
• The Federated States of Micronesia,
• The Republic of the Marshall Islands, or
• The Republic of Palau

The following program objectives must be met:

• A 3-month minimum integrated behavioral health clinical rotation(s) in a rural primary care setting(s)
• Develop program curriculum to address behavioral health and substance use disorders
• Establish strategic partnerships that support primary care behavioral health integration in rural areas

HRSA anticipates awarding approximately $5 million to approximately 12 recipients through this funding opportunity.

For questions please contact:

• LCDR Sherray Holland, PA-C, (301) 443-0952
• Or email pcte-parmnofo@hrsa.gov

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December 11, 2023

Technical Assistance Webinar – Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program (GWEP) – HRSA-24-018, Monday, December 11 from 2:30 – 4:00

Don’t miss today’s Technical Assistance (TA) webinar for the Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program.

When: Today, Monday, December 11, 2:30 – 4:00 p.m.

The Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program (GWEP) aims to have applicants maximize patient and family engagement to address care gaps and improve health outcomes for older adults by integrating geriatrics with primary care and other appropriate specialties using the Age-Friendly Health Systems Framework.

Eligible Applicants include:

• Schools of Allopathic Medicine, Osteopathic Medicine, Nursing, Allied Health, Pharmacy, Dentistry, Public Health, Optometry, Chiropractic, Veterinary Medicine or Podiatric Medicine
• Physician Assistant Education Programs
• Graduate programs for Health Administration or Behavioral Health and Mental Health Practice, including:
• Clinical Psychology
• Clinical Social Work
• Professional Counseling
• Marriage and family therapy
• Health care facilities
• Programs leading to certification as a certified nurse assistant
• Partnership of a school of nursing and health care facility
• Partnership of a program leading to certification as a certified nurse assistant, and a health care facility
• Community-based organization, if otherwise eligible
• Tribes, and Tribal organizations, if otherwise eligible

HRSA anticipates awarding $43 million to approximately 43 recipients through this funding opportunity.

Applications accepted until 11:59 p.m. ET on February 26, 2024

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December 4, 2023

Application Assistance for Rural Residency Funding – Apply by February 12

Learn more about what’s needed to apply for the newest funding opportunity for establishing rural residencies, the Rural Residency Planning and Development Program (RRPD) – HRSA-24-022. The FORHP-supported RRPD provides start-up funding for new residency programs to address physician workforce shortages in:

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

Eligible applicants are rural hospitals and graduate medical education consortiums that may include:

• Universities
• Historically Black Colleges and Universities
• Tribal organizations

A maximum of 15 awardees will receive up to $750,000 for a three-year grant period to develop new and sustainable programs approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, especially programs specifically designed for underserved areas and populations.

Research has shown that physicians from a rural background and those trained in rural settings are more likely to continue practicing in rural areas after completing their residencies.

Medically Underserved Areas/Populations and GME

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December 4, 2023

Updates to Requirements for Buprenorphine Prescribing

As announced by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in January 2023, clinicians no longer need a federal waiver to prescribe buprenorphine for treatment of opioid use disorder. Clinicians are still required to register with the federal Drug Enforcement Agency to prescribe controlled medication.

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 requirement are practitioners who are board certified in 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.

Watch this 11-minute video that explains the changes

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 funds are exhausted.

Please contact DATA2000WaiverPayments@hrsa.gov for additional information.

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December 1, 2023

New Funding Opportunity – Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program (GWEP) – HRSA-24-018

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) released a New Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to educate and train the health and supportive care workforces to care for older adults by collaborating with community partners.

The Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program (GWEP) – HRSA-24-018 aims to have applicants maximize patient and family engagement to address care gaps and improve health outcomes for older adults by integrating geriatrics with primary care and other appropriate specialties using the Age-Friendly Health Systems Framework.

Eligible Applicants

• Schools of Allopathic Medicine, Osteopathic Medicine, Nursing, Allied Health, Pharmacy, Dentistry, Public Health, Optometry, Chiropractic, Veterinary Medicine, or Podiatric Medicine
• Physician Assistant Education Programs
• Graduate programs for Health Administration or Behavioral Health and Mental Health Practice, including:
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Clinical Social Work
  • Professional Counseling
  • Marriage and Family Therapy
• Health care facilities
• Programs leading to certification as a certified nurse assistant
• Partnership of a school of nursing and health care facility
• Partnership of a program leading to certification as a certified nurse assistant and a health care facility
• Community-based organizations, if otherwise eligible
• Tribes, and Tribal organizations, if otherwise eligible

HRSA anticipates awarding approximately $43 million to approximately 43 recipients through this funding opportunity

Contact Information for questions:

Jennifer Solomon, GWEP@hrsa.gov, (301) 443-0024

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November 17, 2023

Funding Opportunity – Supporting Healthy Start Performance Project – HRSA-24-038

The purpose of the Supporting Health Start Performance Project (SHSPP) is to provide training and technical assistance (TA) to support grant recipients in improving their service delivery, meeting outcome measures, and building program ability to work with community partners to improve health and social service systems to reduce maternal and infant health disparities. These grant recipients include those funded under the following programs:

• Healthy Start (HS)
• Health Start Enhanced (HSE)
• Catalyst for Infant Health Equity (Catalyst)

To carry out these activities, the SHSPP recipient will serve as the Healthy Start Technical Assistance and Support Center (TASC). As the TASC, the SHSPP will aid in strengthening the implementation of HS grant recipient activities by providing ongoing training and TA to grant recipients. The HS, HSE, and Catalyst programs have an increased emphasis on addressing social determinants of health (SDOH) to improve disparities in maternal and infant health outcomes. Training and TA strategies provided by the SHSPP are expected to acknowledge and respond to SDOH affecting HS grant recipients across the country.

Eligible Applicants

You can apply if your organization is in the United States and is:

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

Applications are due by December 29, 2023

For Questions Related to this Funding Opportunity Contact:

Kristal Dail, MPH, kdail@hrsa.gov, (301) 287-0236

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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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