Delta Health Systems Implementation Program
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The Delta Health Systems Implementation Program will provide funding to improve healthcare delivery and healthcare access in rural areas of the Delta region.
Hospitals should work to improve healthcare in rural areas through projects in these focus areas:
- Financial and operational improvements
- Implementation of quality improvement initiatives
- Expansion of telehealth services and financial/operational systems enhancements
- The development of new service lines to address the needs of the community, including populations in the community that have been historically underserved
Implementation projects could include, but are not limited to:
- Increasing inpatient and swing bed volume
- Increasing outpatient services
- Developing new service lines
- Reducing readmissions
- Improving transitions of care and discharge planning
- Optimizing emergency department operations
- Implementing revenue cycle best practices to increase point of service collections
- Expanding telehealth services
- Implementing performance measurement systems
- Utilizing data analytics
- Enhancing cybersecurity
- Clinical documentation integrity training
- Simulation training
- Leadership training
- Implementing new technology to increase clinical efficiency
Eligible applicants include domestic public or private, non-profit entities within the Delta region, including faith-based and community-based organizations, tribes, and tribal organizations.
Award ceiling: $404,000
Project period: 2 years
Estimated number of awards: 5
Estimated total program funding:
$2,020,000
Links to the full announcement, application instructions, and the online application process are available through grants.gov.
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Organizations (3)
- Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, view details
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, view details
- Health Resources and Services Administration, view details
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