The Office of Rural Health Policy
will hold a Technical Assistance call for the Rural
Health Outreach Grant Program.
- Tuesday, August 26
at 2:00pm ET
- Toll-free: 888-942-8131
- Passcode: Outreach
- Leader: Nisha Patel
The Technical Assistance
call is open to the general public. The purpose of the call is to
go over the grant guidance, and to provide any additional or clarifying
information that may be necessary regarding the application process.
There will be a Q&A session at the end of the call to answer
any questions. While the call is not required, it is highly recommended
that anyone who is interested in applying for the for Outreach grant
program plan to listen to the call. It is most useful to the applicants
when the grant guidance is easily accessible during the call and
if questions are written down ahead of time for easy reference.
For your reference,
the Technical Assistance call will be recorded and available for
playback within one hour of the end of the call and will be available
until October 31st. The phone number to hear the recorded call is
800-947-2123.
Purpose
of the Program
The purpose of the Outreach program, authorized by Section 330A
(e) of the Public Health Service Act, is “to promote rural
health care services outreach by expanding the delivery of health
care services to include new and enhanced services in rural areas.”
The Outreach
program supports projects that demonstrate creative or effective
models of outreach and service delivery in rural communities. Applicants
may propose projects to address the needs of a wide range of population
groups including, but not limited to, low-income populations, the
elderly, pregnant women, infants, adolescents, rural minority populations
and rural populations with special health care needs. All projects
should be responsive to any unique cultural, social, religious,
and linguistic needs of the target population.
Program
Overview
The Office of Rural Health Policy's Rural Health Care Services Outreach
Grant Program encourages the development of new and innovative health
care delivery systems in rural communities that lack essential health
care services. The emphasis of this grant program is on service
delivery through collaboration, requiring the grantee to form a
consortium with at least two additional partners. The community
being served must be involved in the development and ongoing operations
of the program, to appropriately address the needs of the population.
Programs funded have varied greatly and have brought care that would
not otherwise have been available to at least two million rural
citizens across the country. Through consortia of local providers
and others, rural communities have managed to provide services such
as hospice, dental care for children, and prenatal care in many
remote areas.
To be eligible,
the grant recipient's organizational headquarters must be a rural
public or rural nonprofit private entity and must be located in
a rural county or in a rural census tract of an urban county. All
of the proposed services must be provided in a rural county or census
tract. Exceptions to this are 330(g) Migrant Health Clinics who
exclusively provide services to migrant and seasonal farm workers
in rural areas or a Federally recognized Native American Tribal
Government providing all of the proposed services on Federally-recognized
Tribal land.
The
Office of Rural Health Policy's Outreach 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 program is on service delivery through
creative strategies requiring the grantee to form a network with
at least two additional partners. Programs funded have varied greatly,
and have brought care that would not otherwise have been available
to at least 2 million rural citizens across the country. Through
consortia of schools, churches, emergency medical service providers,
local universities, private practitioners and the like, rural communities
have managed to create hospice care, bring health check-ups to children
and provide prenatal care to women in remote areas. To be eligible
the grant recipient's Headquarters must be public or nonprofit private
entity and be located in a designated rural county, or exclusively
provide services to migrant and seasonal farmworkers in rural areas,
or be a Native American Tribal or quasi-tribal entity. See Geographic
Eligibility for Rural Health Grant Programs for more information.
Alphabetized
by state, the directory includes a list of all the current Outreach
grantees, a project description, their approved funding amount and
the contact information for the project director. "
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History
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Rural
Health Care Services Outreach Grant Sourcebooks |
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Grantees |
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Rural
Health Care Services Outreach Grantees, 2007 |
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Rural
Health Care Services Outreach Grantee Directory, 2006 |
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Guidance
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Single Point of Contact Listing, OMB |
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Health Service Grant Application Form PHS 5161 |
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List
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