Rural Health Care Services Outreach Program

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 93.912

Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Jan 27, 2025

For program and eligibility questions:
Kanokphan Mew Pongsiri, MPH
301.443.2752
RuralOutreachProgram@hrsa.gov

For financial and budget questions:
Kimberly Dews
301.443.0655
kdews@hrsa.gov

HRSA contact Center:
877.464.4772

FORHP requires applicants to contact their State Office of Rural Health and notify them of their intent to apply. Applicants from the U.S. territories or areas that do not have the functional equivalent of a SORH are still eligible to apply without completion of this requirement.

The Rural Health Care Services Outreach Grant Program is a community-based program designed to expand, enhance, and sustain healthcare delivery in rural communities.

The overarching goals for the program are to:

1. Expand the delivery of healthcare services to include new and enhanced services exclusively in rural communities
2. Deliver healthcare services through a strong consortium, in which every consortium member organization is actively involved and engaged in the planning and delivery of services
3. Use community engagement and evidence-based or innovative, evidence- informed model(s) in the delivery of health care services
4. Improve population health, and demonstrate health outcomes and sustainability

Projects must fit into one of two funding tracks:

• Regular Track: The purpose of this track is to fund projects that expand access to health care in rural communities, improve the delivery of health care services, and strengthen resources and capacity in rural communities through collaborative consortiums. These projects are community driven and focus on outreach and education activities targeting unique health needs in rural communities. Goals include demonstrating improvement in health outcomes and creating long-term sustainability through funded projects.
• Special Track: The purpose of this track fund projects that address the underlying factors that drive rural health disparities related to stroke, heart disease, chronic lower respiratory disease, unintentional injury, cancer, and maternal health. The goals of Special Track projects are to demonstrate a collective impact to better manage conditions, address risk factors, and focus on prevention.

See more information regarding project requirements in the application instructions.

For information about previously funded projects, browse Outreach Directories and Sourcebooks on the Rural Health Information Hub website.

Eligible applicants must:

• Be a domestic public or private, nonprofit or for-profit entity with demonstrated experience serving, or the capacity to serve, rural underserved populations
• Represent a network composed of participants that: (1)Include at least 3 or more healthcare provider organizations; and (2)Include at least 66% of network members located in a HRSA-designated rural area
• Not previously received a grant under this program for the same or similar project, unless the entity is proposing to expand the scope of the project or the area that will be served through the project

Nationwide and U.S. Territories

Regular Track:

• Award ceiling: up to $250,000 per year
• Estimated number of awards: approximately 40

Special Track:

• Award ceiling: up to $300,000 per year
• Estimated number of awards: approximately 10

Project period: 4 years
Estimated total program funding: $13,000,000

Links to the full announcement, application instructions, and the online application process are available through grants.gov.

FORHP requires applicants to contact their State Office of Rural Health and notify them of their intent to apply.

Applicant webinar
December 11, 2024
2:00 p.m. Eastern

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