The U.S. Department of Health and Human Service's Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is accepting applications for the fiscal year (FY) 2021 Rural Health Network Development Planning Program.

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:

• achieve efficiencies;
• expand access to, coordinate, and improve the quality of basic health care services; and
• 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.

Funding Information

• Total Program Funding: - $ 2,000,000
• Award Ceiling: - $ 1, 00,000
• Award Floor: - $ 0

Eligibility Criteria

• Eligible applicants shall be domestic public or private, non-profit or for-profit entities, including faith-based, community-based, tribes and tribal organizations. The applicant organization may be located in a rural or urban area, but must have demonstrated experience serving, or the capacity to serve, rural underserved populations. Urban applicants should describe how they will ensure a high degree of local rural control in the project. Applicants should list the rural areas (counties) that will be served.
• Proposed counties should be fully rural, but if counties are partially rural counties, please include the rural census tract(s) in the Project Abstract. The applicant organization should also describe their experience and/or capacity serving rural populations in the Project Abstract section of the application. It is important that applicants list the rural counties (or rural census tract(s) if the county is partially rural) that will be served through their proposed project, as this will be one of the factors that will determine the applicant organization’s eligibility to apply for this grant funding.

For more information, visit Grants.gov.