Rural Spotlight

Accepting Applications – National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program

April 3, 2023

Accepting Applications – National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program

The Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA) is accepting applications through April 27 for the National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program.

This program awards scholarships to students pursuing eligible primary care health professions training. In return, scholars commit to provide primary care health services in Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs).

Awardees must commit to a minimum of two years of full-time service and serve at a National Health Service Corps (NHSC) approved site in a HPSA.

This scholarship provides financial support for full-time enrollment in an eligible primary care health professions degree training program for up to four school years and includes:

Payment of tuition and eligible fees

An annual payment for other reasonable educational costs

Monthly stipends to assist with living expenses while pursuing health professions degree educational training program

After completion of the NHSC Scholarship Program (SP) service commitment, awardees may be eligible to apply to the NHSC Loan Repayment Program (NHSC-LRP).

Applicants must be a student pursuing primary care health professions training.

Check eligibility requirements here.

Click here for Application and Program Guidance.

Notice of Funding Opportunity – Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Planning, Development, and Implementation Grant – SM-23-024

April 3, 2023

Notice of Funding Opportunity – Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Planning, Development, and Implementation Grant – SM-23-024

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is accepting applications through May 22 for the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Planning Development and Implementation grant – SM-23-024. The purpose of this program is to transform community behavioral health systems and provide comprehensive, coordinated behavioral health care by:

(a) Assisting organizations in the planning for and development and implementation of a new Comprehensive, Coordinated Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) that meets the CCBHC Certification Criteria,

(b) providing a comprehensive range of outreach, screening, assessment, treatment, care coordination, and recovery supports based on a needs assessment that aligns with the CCBHC Certification Criteria, and

(c) supporting recovery from mental illness and/or substance use disorders (SUD) by providing access to high-quality mental health and SUD services, regardless of an individual’s ability to pay.

Eligible Applicants:

Community based behavioral health non-profit organizations, or organizations that are either:

  • Part of a local government behavioral health authority or
  • Operated under the authority of the Indian Health Service, an Indian tribe, or tribal organization, or
  • An Urban Indian Organization pursuant to a grant or contract with the Indian Health Service under Title V of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (25 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.)

Need more information or have questions? Please join SAMHSA for a pre-application webinar on April 12, 2023, 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. EDT.

Click here to join the webinar.

Apply Here

Notice of Funding Opportunity – HRSA-23-003 – Health Careers Opportunity Program: The National HCOP Academies

March 31, 2023

Notice of Funding Opportunity – HRSA-23-003 – Health Careers Opportunity Program: The National HCOP Academies

Application due May 24, 2023

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is accepting applications for the fiscal year (FY) 2023 Health Careers Opportunity Program (HCOP): National HCOP Academies – HRSA-23-003.

The purpose of the National HCOP Academies is to assist individuals from economically and educationally disadvantaged backgrounds to enter and graduate from a health professions program. The National HCOP Academies funds programs that work to improve recruitment, matriculation, retention, and graduation rates by implementing tailored enrichment programs that address the academic and social needs of trainees from disadvantaged backgrounds. HCOP Academies also provide opportunities for community-based experiential health professions training, emphasizing experiences in underserved communities. A funding preference is available to applicants who partner with several public or private health or educational entities to establish, enhance, and expand educational programs that produce a competitive applicant pool of individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Eligible applicants include:

  • Accredited schools of medicine
  • Osteopathic medicine
  • Public health
  • Dentistry
  • Veterinary medicine
  • Optometry
  • Pharmacy
  • Allied health
  • Chiropractic
  • Podiatric medicine
  • Public and nonprofit private schools that offer graduate programs in behavioral and mental health, programs for the training of physician assistants
  • Other public or private nonprofit health or educational entities including community colleges, technical colleges, and tribal colleges
  • Accredited schools of medicine
  • Osteopathic

Click Here for Grant Application

Custom Learning Webinar – 5 Star Swing Bed Growth Academy – A New Era in Rural Hospital Success

March 31, 2023

Custom Learning Webinar – 5 Star Swing Bed Growth Academy – A New Era in Rural Hospital Success

Please join Custom Learning for a special briefing on the 5 Star Swing Bed Growth Academy on April 14th, 2023 at 12:00 p.m. MT.

You will learn how to:

  • Launch a systematic marketing process that leaves no stone unturned winning market share
  • Achieve a significant hike in revenues and cash flow
  • Gain an impressive community reputation for a quality process that is recognized for its clinical excellence
  • Unleash your own caregivers as enthusiastic advocates to their friends, family and the community
  • Take advantage of this seven step collaborative to simultaneously improve marketing, quality and the patient experience

Learn more about the 5 Star Swing Bed Program

Register Here

New Critical Access Hospital (CAH) Fact Sheet

March 31, 2023

New Critical Access Hospital (CAH) Fact Sheet

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently published a new fact sheet summarizing the Medicare rules and regulations for Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs). This latest version includes the revised CAH location requirement relative to other facilities to include areas with only secondary roads available as well as the requirement to inform the patient or their representative of their rights before starting or ending care and establish a grievance process.

Click here to view and download the CAH Fact Sheet

Missouri Healthcare Workforce Summit: Striking Balance Between Purpose, People, and Process in Today’s Workplace

March 30, 2023

Missouri Healthcare Workforce Summit: Striking Balance Between Purpose, People, and Process in Today’s Workplace

Want to build a better workforce? Start with putting your people first! The core of a purpose-driven organization is a people-focused culture. When organizations care about their people, this builds trust. Employees that trust their employer are far more likely to have better overall job satisfaction, engagement, and retention.

Please join the Missouri Primary Care Association for the Missouri Healthcare Workforce Summit on May 3 – 4, 2023 at the Courtyard Marriott in Jefferson City. This workforce summit is designed to help you learn how to better invest in your people.

Topics covered include:

  • Striking balance between purpose, people, and process in today’s workforce
  • Onboarding
  • Employee engagement
  • Career ladders
  • Burnout and workplace Stress

Dates: May 3, 2023, 10:00 a.m. – 4:15 p.m. and

May 4, 2023, 8:00 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Cost: $100 per participant (space is limited)

Location:

Courtyard Marriott

610 Bolivar St.

Jefferson City

Hotel Cost: $131 USD per night

MPCA has reserved a limited number of rooms at the special rate of $131 per night. This rate is available until April 11, 2023 by reserving with this link:     https://www.marriott.com/event-reservations/reservation-link.mi?id=1675974470788&key=GRP&app=resvlink

Agenda

Summit Registration

 

Health Quality Innovation Network Webinar: Prepare, Prevent, Protect- Session on Antibiotic Stewardship April 18th

March 29, 2023

Prepare, Prevent, Protect- Session on Antibiotic Stewardship April 18, 2023

The Prepare, Prevent, Protect webinar on April 18 will cover Antibiotic Stewardship.

These interactive sessions feature a 20-minute briefing on the featured topic before launching into an open forum for presenters and attendees to share what is working, along with questions and comments.

Attend the webinar and complete the attestation form to earn contact hours and/or a certificate of participation.

Register HERE

Health Quality Innovation Network Webinar: COVID-19 Plan of Care and General Care Planning April 11

March 29, 2023

COVID-19 Plan of Care and General Care Planning April 11, 2023 at 1:00 PM Central

Register for the April 11 Simple Strategies Stand-Up webinar covering “COVID-19 Plan of Care and General Care Planning.“ 

These interactive sessions feature a 20-minute briefing on the featured topic before launching into an open forum for presenters and attendees to share what is working, along with questions and comments.

Register here

Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) – HRSA 23-125 Rural Health Care Coordination Program- Applications Due May 15th

March 28, 2023

Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) – HRSA 23-125 Rural Health Care Coordination Program

The Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) is pleased to announce a new Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) HRSA-23-125 – Rural Health Care Coordination Program (RHCC).

The goals of the RHCC program are to implement activities that improve and expand delivery of health care services through care coordination strategies in rural areas. Over the four-year period of performance, approximately 10 award recipients will use this funding to improve health outcomes through coordinated, community-wide, sustainable programs in rural communities.

Eligible applicants include:

  • All domestic public or private
  • Non-profit or for-profit entities
  • Community-based organizations, federally recognized tribes, tribal organizations, and faith-based organizations

Applicants must have demonstrated experience serving rural populations and represent a consortia/network of three or more health care provider organizations.

The Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA) has scheduled a pre-application technical assistance webinar:

April 6, 2023, 3 – 4 p.m. ET

Webinar link:

https://hrsa-gov.zoomgov.com/j/1610629141?pwd=TGtJVGNZVjB6T1RTZlB5U0dTRWltUT09#success

Applications are due May 15, 2023.

Visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=346212 to apply.

 

NRHA Webinar – Become a Certified Rural Hospital Board Member

March 24, 2023

NRHA Webinar – Become a Certified Rural Hospital Board Member

The Board of Trustees for a rural hospital oversee unique, challenging, and complex decisions that rural hospital leaders make to ensure the prosperity of not only their facility but also their community

NRHA is launching the Rural Hospital Board Certification Program to provide rural hospital Board members with the tools, knowledge, and network of peers and experts they need to thrive in their roles. Providing guidance for a rural hospital is different, one of the resounding reasons for the creation of this program.

Created by successful rural hospital Board Members for rural hospital Board Members.

To learn more about this program, sign up for the upcoming webinar:

April 13, 2023, 1:00 – 2:00 PM EST – Register Here

To view all available programs, click here.