Rural Health Outreach Grant Program

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.

• 2008 Rural Health Care Services Outreach Grantee Directory

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. "