The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is accepting applications for the 2024 Service Area Competition (SAC) under the Health Center Program.
Donor Name: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/18/2023
Grant Duration: 3 years
Details:
The Health Center Program supports domestic public or private, nonprofit community-based and patient-directed organizations that provide primary health care services to the Nation’s medically underserved populations. The purpose of the SAC notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) is to ensure continued access to comprehensive, culturally competent, high-quality primary health care services for communities and populations currently served by the Health Center Program.
In addition to the general Health Center Program requirements discussed above, specific requirements for funding under each population type are outlined below.
- Community Health Center Applicants
- Ensure compliance with PHS Act section 330(e) and program regulations, requirements, and policies.
- Provide a plan that ensures the availability and accessibility of required primary health care services to underserved populations in the service area.
- Migrant Health Center (MHC) Applicants
- Ensure compliance with PHS Act section 330(g); and, as applicable, section 330(e), program regulations, requirements, and policies.
- Provide a plan that ensures the availability and accessibility of required primary health care services to migratory and seasonal agricultural workers and their families in the service area, which includes:
- Migratory agricultural workers who are individuals whose principal employment is in agriculture, who have been so employed within the last 24 months, and who establish for the purposes of such employment a temporary abode;
- Seasonal agricultural workers who are individuals whose principal employment is in agriculture on a seasonal basis and who do not meet the definition of a migratory agricultural worker;
- Individuals who are no longer employed in migratory or seasonal agriculture because of age or disability who are within such catchment area; and/or
- Family members of the individuals described above.
- Health Care for the Homeless Center (HCH) Applicants
- Ensure compliance with PHS Act section 330(h); and, as applicable, section 330(e), program regulations, requirements, and policies.
- Provide a plan that ensures the availability and accessibility of required primary health care services to individuals:
- Who lack housing (without regard to whether the individual is a member of a family);
- Whose primary residence during the night is a supervised public or private facility that provides temporary living accommodations;
- Who reside in transitional housing;
- Who reside in permanent supportive housing or other housing programs that are targeted to homeless populations; and/or
- Who are children and youth at risk of homelessness, homeless veterans, and veterans at risk of homelessness.
- Provide substance use disorder services.
- Public Housing Primary Care (PHPC) Applicants
- Ensure compliance with PHS Act section 330(i); and, as applicable, section 330(e), program regulations, requirements, and policies.
- Provide a plan that ensures the availability and accessibility of required primary health care services to residents of public housing and individuals living in areas immediately accessible to public housing. Public housing includes public housing agency-developed, owned, or assisted low-income housing, including mixed finance projects, but excludes housing units with no public housing agency support other than Section 8 housing vouchers.
- Consult with residents of the proposed public housing sites regarding the planning and administration of the program.
Funding Information
- Anticipated 2024 Total Available Funding: Approximately $235,291,792
- Period of performance is April 1, 2024 through March 31, 2027 (up to 3 years).
Eligibility Criteria
- You must be a domestic public or private, nonprofit entity, as demonstrated through the submission of the Evidence of Non-profit/Public Center Status, outlined in Faith-based and community-based organizations, Tribes, and tribal organizations are eligible to apply.
- You must propose in the RESPONSE section of the Project Narrative to operate a health center that makes all required primary health care services available and accessible in the service area, either directly or through established arrangements, without regard for ability to pay. You may not propose to provide ONLY a single service or any subset of the required primary health care services.
- You must provide continuity of services, ensuring availability and accessibility of services to residents of the service area, by proposing to serve an announced service area, as well as:
- Public Housing Primary Care Applicants
- If you are a new or competing supplement applicant applying for 330(i) funding, you must demonstrate that you have consulted with residents of public housing in the preparation of the SAC application. You must also ensure ongoing consultation with the residents regarding the planning and administration of the health center, as documented in the COLLABORATION section of the Project Narrative.
- Health Care for the Homeless and Public Housing Primary Care Applicants
- If you are a new or competing supplement applicant applying for 330(h) or 330(i) funding for the first time, you must attest on the Summary Page that you will use this funding to supplement, and not supplant, the expenditures of the health center and the value of in-kind contributions for the delivery of services to these populations.
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