The next competitive
grant cycle for the Delta Grant will not occur until FY 2010. Tentative
availability of the grant guidance is Spring 2010.
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Program
Purpose
The Office of Rural Health Policy’s Delta Grant Program is
designed to encourage the development of new and innovative health
care delivery systems in rural communities that lack essential health
care services. The emphasis of this grant is to foster collaboration
among multi-county networks and other partnering organizations with
the purpose of engaging in a series of health implementation projects
through creative strategies requiring the grantee to form a consortium
of 2 additional partners.
Program
Overview
The Delta States Rural Development Network Grant Program provides
3 years of funding to rural organizations to address local health
care needs in the rural Delta region. Previously funded projects
have varied greatly in the type of grantee and the projects proposed,
and have brought care that would not otherwise been available to
over 300,000 residents of the rural Delta Region. Applicants must
propose to use the grant to address key focus areas surrounding
chronic disease management, access to pharmacy services, and/or
practice management services. In addition, application may address
other priority health issues which include oral health, school-based
health services, mental health/substance abuse services, and teenage
pregnancy prevention. Applicants may also propose to develop an
innovation project around quality, health information technology
or methods to increase access to prescription drugs for the medically
indigent.
Eligibility
is open to rural public or rural non-profit private entities located
within the Delta region. The lead applicant organization applies
on behalf of the consortium of rural health providers. The proposed
consortium supported by the grant must include three or more diverse
health care providers, which may be nonprofit or for-profit entities.
Applicants funded through this program may includes entitles that
support the delivery of health care services such as social service
agencies, faith-based organization, charitable organizations, institutions
of higher education, local government agencies, community health
and migrant health centers, rural health clinics, mental health
centers, hospitals and public health agencies. Given the broad service
region of the Delta, applicants are charged to engage partnering
organizations as well as multi-county networks to conduct project
activities across the region.
For additional information please contact:
Lakisha M. Smith, MPH
Public Health Analyst
Office of Rural Health Policy
5600 Fishers Lane, Room 9A-42
Rockville, MD 20857
Phone: (301) 443-0837
Fax: (301) 443-2803
Delta Grant Awards (FY 2007 –
2009)
Geographic
Eligibility for the Delta Grant Program
HRSA’s Office of Rural Health Policy uses the Congressional
definition of the service area of the Delta Regional Authority to
define the service area of the Delta minus those counties that are
not rural. Further details, a map of the region and a list of the
counties in the service area of the DRA can be found at the Delta
Regional Authority Web site.
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