The 2025 Preventive Services in Long-term Care Grant Program will award grants to increase the capacity of residential facilities serving older adults to meet critical needs and provide services for their residents.
Donor Name: Office of Rural Health and Primary Care
State: Minnesota
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/15/2024
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
The grant program is focused on the development and dissemination of resources to improve long-term care (LTC) communities’ capacity to ensure the safety and continuity of services provided to residents in skilled nursing/nursing facilities (SNF/NFs) and assisted living facilities (ALFs) operating in Greater Minnesota (outside of the seven-county Twin Cities metropolitan area).
The Infection Prevention and Control Capacity Building in Long-term Care grant program priorities include:
- Priority Area 1: Increasing transferrable infection prevention and control capacity (knowledge, skills, and practices) among the LTC workforce and other LTC stakeholders in facilities or organizations serving older adults in a way that considers settings with high staff turnover.
- Priority Area 2: Improving facility ventilation and/or broader plant infrastructure to reduce transmission of infectious diseases among residents and staff in LTC facilities. Proposed improvements should focus on evidence-based recommendations to reduce the transmission of infectious disease.
Funding Information
A total of $3,000,000 is available for grants through the 2025 Preventive Services in Long-term Care Grant Program: Infection Prevention and Control Capacity Building in Long-term Care.
- Estimated Amount to Grant $3,000,000
- Estimated Award Maximum $3,000,000
- Estimated Award Minimum $75,000
Grant Period
- Grant agreements begin (estimated): March 1, 2025.
- Grant agreements end: May 31, 2026.
Eligible Expenses
- Example expenses for projects addressing Priority Area 1:
- In-person and web-based training related to infection prevention and control for staff, volunteers, residents, and other LTC stakeholders.
- Purchase and distribution of supplies that improve infection prevention and control capabilities, such as:
- Promotion of infection prevention strategies, such as education on vaccination, PPE use, and testing for respiratory pathogens in LTC communities.
- Partnership with community health workers and other community partners to implement sustainable infection prevention and control practices in LTC communities.
- Implementation of train-the-trainer programs to promote infection control and prevention.
- Development of targeted programs to engage all LTC staff, volunteers, residents, and other stakeholders in infection prevention and control efforts to reduce disease transmission in LTC communities.
- Contracts with partner entities to provide training, other services, or supplies related to increasing infection prevention and control capacity among the LTC workforce.
- Other community-specific programmatic content to improve infection prevention and control systems in LTC communities.
- Example expenses for projects addressing Priority Area 2:
- Development of resources to assess and improve ventilation and other plant conditions that may contribute to infectious disease transmission in LTC communities.
- Purchase of supplies and equipment required for improving ventilation and/or plant infrastructure to comply with evidence-based recommendations to reduce infectious disease transmission in LTC communities.
- Monitoring, maintenance, repair, and/or replacement of ventilation/air exchange systems, air filtration or purification systems, or other components of plant infrastructure required to reduce infectious disease transmission.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible applicants meet the following criteria:
- Applicant is one of these entities: Clinic, Community Health Board/Local Public Health, For-profit Entity, Hospital, Institution of Higher Education, Local Unit of Government, Nonprofit Organization, or Tribal Government.
- Applicant is located in Minnesota.
- Applicant entity is in good financial standing.
- Applicant demonstrates a strong history of working with LTC stakeholders in Minnesota.
- Applicant and its collaborating partners demonstrate expertise in one or more of the following areas as relevant to the proposed project:
- Infection prevention and control,
- LTC workforce development, and
- LTC plant operations.
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