HRSA Rural Health Network Development Planning Program

Sponsor Deadline: 

Nov 16, 2020

Internal Deadline: 

Oct 16, 2020

Sponsor: 

Health Resources and Services Admin

UI Contact: 

HRSA Rural Health Network Development Planning Program
HRSA-21-021
Grants.gov   https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=326598
HRSA url   https://grants.hrsa.gov/2010/Web2External/Interface/FundingCycle/Externa...

This HRSA opportunity is limited to one application per institution.
Please refer this link on the UIowa Limited Submissions process  https://uiowa.infoready4.com/#competitionDetail/1759769

This notice announces the opportunity to apply for funding under the Rural Health Network Development Planning Program (“Network Planning Grants”). The purpose of the Network Planning Grants Program is to promote the development of integrated health care networks in order to: (i) achieve efficiencies; (ii) expand access to, coordinate, and improve the quality of basic health care services; and (iii) strengthen the rural health care system as a whole. This program brings together key parts of a rural health care delivery system, particularly those entities that may not have collaborated in the past, to work together to establish or improve local capacity and coordination of care. The grant program supports one year of planning to develop and assist integrated health care networks in becoming operational. For purposes of this program, an integrated health care network is defined as an organizational arrangement among at least three (3) regional or local health care organizations that come together to develop strategies for improving health services delivery systems in a community. An integrated health care network should be an independent organization with signed agreements, defined policies and, often by-laws based on a long-term vision for achieving systemic change. Decision-making is shared and distributed among members and the programmatic focus adapts to changing priorities. Integrated health care networks can be an effective strategy to help smaller rural health care providers and hea

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