American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Health Information Technology Extension Program: Regional Centers

The summary for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Health Information Technology Extension Program: Regional Centers grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the Office of the National Coordinator, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Health Information Technology Extension Program: Regional Centers: The two-year expansion supplement will be available to recipients of the REC awards and is intended to ensure the provision of services to CAHs and Rural Hospitals in the REC's service area. This award will be supplemental to the REC's existing award, and the plans, metrics and reporting requirements will be included in the REC's cooperative agreement. It is anticipated that each REC will need an additional$12,000 per CAH and Rural Hospital that it supports through this program. The supplemental funds will be used to ensure the delivery of the support services for CAH and Rural Hospitals and will be tied to the same milestones that are identified in the original REC FOA (EP-HIT-09-003). As with other funding milestones identified in the original FOA, recipients will be required to use the customer relationship management tool to help in meeting the milestones associated with this project.Biennial EvaluationThe evaluation of the CAH/Rural Hospital program will be included in the REC's biennial evaluation. A separate report (or report section) will be required for those activities covered by supplemental funding.

Federal Grant Title:	American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Health Information Technology Extension Program: Regional Centers
Federal Agency Name:	Office of the National Coordinator
Grant Categories:	Recovery Act
Type of Opportunity:	Other
Funding Opportunity Number:	2010-ONC-REC-S
Type of Funding:	Cooperative Agreement
CFDA Numbers:	93.718
CFDA Descriptions:	Health Information Technology Regional Extension Centers Program
Current Application Deadline:	Apr 30, 2010
Original Application Deadline:	Apr 30, 2010
Posted Date:	Mar 29, 2010
Creation Date:	Mar 29, 2010
Archive Date:	May 30, 2010
Total Program Funding:
Maximum Federal Grant Award:	$1,600,000
Minimum Federal Grant Award:	$50,000
Expected Number of Awards:	70
Cost Sharing or Matching:	Yes

Applicants Eligible for this Grant: Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Additional Information on Eligibility: Eligible applicants are limited to (a) recipients of a Regional Extension Center cooperative agreement; and (b) REC applicants who were successful in their pre-applications due December 22nd , 2009, and were invited to submit a full application. As explained in Section I above, CAHs and Rural Hospitals are vital components of the rural health care system in the United States. In recognition of their vital roles, the purpose of this supplemental funding is to ensure the provision of services to CAH and Rural Hospitals by the RECs that will be funded under FOA No. EP-HIT-09-003. Accordingly, this competition is limited to those organizations that have been or will be selected to receive an REC cooperative agreement under FOA No. EP-HIT-09-003. Funds can only be used to assist CAH and Rural Hospitals that the REC intended to serve in their original application.
Link to Full Grant Announcement: Information not provided
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