The Rural Health Network Development Planning Program supports the planning and development of rural integrated health care networks with specific focus on collaboration of entities to establish or improve local capacity and care coordination in underserved communities.
Donor Name: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/19/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
Specifically, the program uses the concept of developing networks as a strategy for linking rural health care network participants together to achieve greater collective capacity to overcome local challenges, expand access and improve the quality of care in the rural communities these organizations serve.
The program helps network participants work together on three legislative aims:
- Achieve efficiencies.
- Expand access to, coordinate, and improve the quality of basic health care services and associated health outcomes.
- Strengthen the rural health care system as a whole.
The intent is that rural health networks will do the following:
- Expand access to care.
- Increase the use of health information technology.
- Explore alternative health care delivery models.
- Continue to achieve quality health care across the continuum of care.
Goals
The goal of this program is to support the planning and development of integrated health care networks that:
- Facilitate collaboration among health care networks to achieve efficiencies and improve access to quality health care services and outcomes in rural areas.
- Strengthen the rural health care system as a whole by fostering partnerships among diverse health care entities.
- Enhance local capacity to improve rural community health interventions and coordinate care effectively.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $3,500,000
- Award Ceiling: $100,000.
Grant Period
July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026.
Eligibility Criteria
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Special district governments
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- City or township governments
- State governments
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Independent school districts
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- County governments
- Private institutions of higher education
- Domestic means the fifty states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. Individuals are not eligible applicants under this NOFO.
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