December 31, 2024
New Funding Opportunity: FY 25 Delta Health Systems Implementation Program (DSIP), Apply by March 20
The Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA’s) Federal Office of Rural Health Policy’s (FORHP’s) Delta Health System’s Implementation Program (DSIP) funding opportunity for FY25 is open and accepting applications – HRSA-25-032 for the program’s two-year period of performance (September 1, 2025-August 31, 2027).
HRSA expects to award five rural healthcare organizations, up to $400,000 each, to enhance healthcare delivery in rural areas by implementing projects that will improve financial sustainability and increase access to care.
Eligible applicants include:
- Critical access hospitals
- Small rural hospitals
- Rural health clinics
- Tribal healthcare facilities, and
- other healthcare organizations located in a rural county or parish in the Delta region.
Applicants must propose projects based on recommendations received from previous technical assistance (TA) provided through the Delta Region Community Health Systems Development Program or another similar TA program within the last five years.
Examples of implementation projects include, but are not limited to:
- Financial and Operational:
- Developing new service lines,
- Increasing inpatient and swing bed volume,
- Increasing outpatient services,
- Implementing revenue cycle best practices to increase point of service collections, and
- Optimizing emergency department operations.
- Quality:
- Reducing readmissions,
- Improving transitions of care and discharge planning,
- Implementing performance measurement systems,
- Clinical documentation integrity training, and
- Utilizing data analytics.
- Telehealth:
- Expanding telehealth services and enhancing cybersecurity.
- Workforce:
- Recruitment initiatives,
- Implementing new technology to increase clinical efficiency,
- Simulation training for clinicians, and
- Leadership training such as rounding to improve patient and employee satisfaction.
Applications Due by March 20, 2025
A technical assistance webinar via Zoom will be held for applicants on Wednesday, January 8, at 1:00 p.m. Eastern.
Interested applicants should start registrations in grants.gov and sam.gov ASAP.
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For more information about this funding opportunity, contact the Program Coordinator, Suzanne Snyder, at RuralHospitals@hrsa.gov.