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 goal of the Non-Emergency Medical Transportation in Long-term Care grant program is to develop systems and strategies to ensure that LTC community residents have the safest, most appropriate, and cost-effective transportation services to participate in essential non-emergency health related appointments. Applicants are encouraged to propose creative solutions and unexplored approaches, as well as modifications to current resources, to fulfill this goal.
Funding Information
A total of $2,000,000 is available for grants through the 2025 Preventive Services in Long-term Care Grant Program: Non-Emergency Medical Transportation in Long-term Care.
- Estimated Amount to Grant $2,000,000
- Estimated Award Maximum $2,000,000
- Estimated Award Minimum $75,000
Grant Period
- Grant agreements begin (estimated): March 1, 2025.
- Grant agreements end: May 31, 2026.
Eligible Expenses
- Providing resources and systems to LTC communities to coordinate non-emergency medical transportation among residents and across LTC facilities in a region.
- Developing or expanding a formalized process for rideshare service providers to provide non-emergency medical transportation to residents in LTC communities.
- Training, education, recruitment, and credentialing of new and existing staff and volunteers to provide non-emergency medical transportation to residents.
- Technology, equipment, and staff to develop, implement, or expand non-emergency medical transportation services (including related resources, such as a reservation system) for LTC communities.
- Modifications to vehicles to increase accessibility.
- Contracts with partner entities to provide transportation services or related services, such as coordination and training.
- Partnerships with community health workers or other community partners to facilitate utilization of transportation services or create supporting resources.
- Developing and piloting a new model of non-emergency medical transportation services for LTC communities.
- Modifying existing transportation programs or resources to operate more safely, efficiently, and cost-effectively for LTC communities.
- Other costs to address community-specific non-emergency medical transportation needs.
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 non-emergency medical transportation and/or other LTC transportation systems.
- Clinics, hospitals, and health care systems that do not operate long-term care facilities are ineligible for this grant funding, either as the primary applicant or as a collaborating partner.
- Transportation providers that receive funding from Medical Assistance (MA) are ineligible for this grant funding, either as the primary applicant or as a collaborating partner.
For more information, visit ORHPC.
