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Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program

This funding record is inactive. Please see the program website or contact the program sponsor to determine if this program is currently accepting applications or will open again in the future.

 
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 93.241
Sponsors
Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Deadlines
Mar 29, 2019
Contact

For programmatic or technical questions:
Sarah Young
301.443.5905
SYoung2@hrsa.gov

For grants management or budget questions:
Benjamin White
301.945.9455
bwhite@hrsa.gov

Purpose

The Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program provides support to Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) for quality improvement, quality reporting, performance improvements, and benchmarking; designating facilities as critical access hospitals; and the provision of rural emergency medical services (EMS).

Program areas include:
  • Improve the quality of care provided by CAHs
  • Improve the financial and operational outcomes of CAHs
  • CAH population health improvement
  • Enhance the health of rural communities through community/population health improvement
  • Rural EMS Improvement
  • Innovative Model Development
  • CAH Designation
Eligibility

Only States with certified Critical Access Hospitals are eligible for this grant program. The Governor designates the eligible applicant from each state.

Geographic coverage
Nationwide
Amount of funding

Award ceiling: See Appendix: State Funding Levels in the application instructions.
Number of awards: Up to 45
Project period: 5 years
Total funding available: $27,000,000

Application process

Links to the application and full announcement are available through grants.gov.

Tagged as
Critical Access Hospitals · Emergency medical services · Healthcare business and finance · Healthcare quality · Hospitals · Population health · Reimbursement and payment models

Organizations (3)



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