The Rural PACE
Technical Assistance Program is an initiative to assist rural health
care providers in developing Programs of All-inclusive Care for
the Elderly (PACE) to serve rural communities. The goals of the
program are to:
- Develop
strategies for successfully adapting PACE to rural communities
- Identify
health professional training needs to support PACE in rural communities
- Provide
education and technical assistance to rural providers interested
in exploring rural PACE opportunities
The Rural PACE
Technical Assistance Program is funded by the Office of Rural Health
Policy (ORHP) and the Bureau of Health Professions (BHPr) Division
of Medicine and Dentistry, Division of Nursing, Allied Geriatics
and Rural Health Branch and the Quentin Burdick Program of the Health
Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). The contract to implement
this project was awarded to the National PACE Association [www.npaonline.org]
(NPA) and the National Rural Health Association (NRHA) [www.nrharural.org].
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