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Other
Health Professions Programs
Patient Navigator Outreach & Chronic Disease Prevention
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FY
2007
Actual |
FY
2008
Enacted |
FY
2009
Estimate |
FY
2009 +/-
FY 2008 |
| BA |
--- |
$2,948,000 |
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-$2,948,000 |
| FTE |
--- |
2 |
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-2 |
Authorizing
Legislation: Patient Navigator Outreach and Chronic
Disease Prevention Act of 2005, P. L. 109-18, Section
340A
| FY 2009
Authorization |
$6,500,000 |
| Allocation Method |
Competitive Grant |
Program Description and Accomplishments
The purpose of the Patient Navigator Outreach and
Chronic Disease Prevention program is to make grants
to eligible entities for the development and operation
of demonstration programs to provide patient navigator
services to improve health care outcomes. Eligible
entities include public or nonprofit private health
centers (including a federally qualified health centers,
health facilities operated by or pursuant to a contract
with the Indian Health Service, hospitals, cancer
centers, rural health clinics, academic health centers,
or nonprofit entities that enters into a partnership
or coordinates referrals with such centers, clinics,
facilities, or hospitals to provide patient navigator
services.
The grantees agree to recruit, assign, train and
employ patient navigators who have direct knowledge
of the communities they serve to effectively facilitate
the care of underserved populations. Patient navigators
facilitate the care of individuals by 1) acting as
contacts for individuals seeking prevention or early
detection services for cancer or other chronic diseases;
2) facilitating the involvement of community organizations
to provide better access to high-quality health care
services to individuals at risk for, or who have,
cancer or other chronic diseases; 3) coordinating
with the relevant health insurance ombudsman programs
to provide information to such individuals about health
coverage; 4) notifying individuals of clinical trials;
5) helping patients overcome barriers within the health
care system to ensure prompt diagnostic and treatment
resolutions of an abnormal finding of cancer or other
chronic disease; and 6) conducting ongoing outreach
to health disparity populations.
The Patient Navigator Outreach and Chronic Disease
Prevention program was not funded in FY 2007 as these
services were met through other existing HRSA activities.
Funding includes costs associated with grant reviews,
processing of grants through the Grants Administration
Tracking and Evaluation System (GATES) and HRSA’s
electronic handbook, and follow-up performance reviews.
Funding History
| FY 2004 |
$--- |
| FY 2005 |
$-- |
| FY 2006 |
$--- |
| FY 2007 |
$--- |
| FY 2008 |
$2,948,000 |
Budget Request
The FY 2009 Request does not request funding
for this program. The budget focuses on activities
that fund the placement of more doctors, nurses, and
other health care professionals in the regions of
the country that face shortages.
| # |
Key
Outputs |
FY
2004 Actual |
FY
2005 Actual |
FY
2006 |
FY
2007 |
FY
2008
Enacted |
FY
2009
Est. |
Out-Year
Target |
| Target |
Actual |
Target |
Actual |
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Number of Grants |
-- |
-- |
NA |
-- |
NA |
-- |
5 |
-- |
NA |
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Appropriated Amount
($ Million) |
--- |
-- |
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--- |
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--- |
$2.95
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NA – Not Applicable
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