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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