At a glance
Rural Residency Planning and Development Program is a federal competitive grant from Health Resources and Services Administration for the science & technology sector. Funding is up to $750K. Eligible applicants: City or township governments; Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities; Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification); Small businesses; County governments; Priva. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. Apply via the official listing at www.grants.gov.
- Amount
- Up to $750K
- Deadline
- Rolling
- Type
- Competitive
- Status
- Forecasted
About this program
The Rural Residency Planning and Development (RRPD) program improves and expands rural health care access. It does this by developing new, accredited, sustainable rural residency programs, including rural track programs (RTPs). Newly created rural physician residency programs increase training and ultimately practice in rural areas to address physician shortages. The RRPD program provides start-up funding to create new rural residency programs in qualifying medical specialties. Long-term sustainability funding must come from viable and stable sources, such as Medicare, Medicaid, and other public or private sources. Qualifying medical specialties are:Family medicine.Internal medicine.Psychiatry.General surgery.Obstetrics and gynecology.For this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO), rural residency programs:Are accredited physician residency programs.Train residents in clinical training sites that are physically located in a rural area as defined by HRSA's Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) for greater than 50 percent of their total time in residency.Focus on preparing physicians to practice in rural communities.
Who can apply
City or township governments; Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities; Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification); Small businesses; County governments; Private institutions of higher education; Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments); State governments; Public and State controlled institutions of higher education; Special district governments; Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"; For profit organizations other than small businesses; Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized); Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education; Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education; Independent school districts. Only domestic organizations are eligible. "Domestic" means the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. Faith-based organizations are eligible.
How to apply
Apply through Grants.gov using funding opportunity number HRSA-27-046. Register your organization (SAM.gov + Grants.gov) before the deadline, then submit the application package listed in the official notice.
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