Service Area Competition

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	Federal Grant Title:	Service Area Competition
	CFDA Number:	93.224
	CFDA Description:	Consolidated Health Centers (Community Health Centers, Migrant Health Centers, Health Care for the Homeless, Public Hous
	Federal Agency Name:	Health Resources and Services Administration
	Category of Funding Activity:	Health
	Category Explanation:	Information not provided
	Opportunity Category:	Discretionary
	Funding Opportunity Number:	HRSA-12-089
	Document Type:	Modification to Previous Grants Notice
	Funding Instrument Type:	Grant
	Posted Date:	Jun 14, 2011
	Creation Date:	Jun 20, 2011
	Original Closing Date for Applications:	Aug 29, 2011
	Current Closing Date for Applications:	Aug 29, 2011
	Archive Date:	Oct 28, 2011
	Expected Number of Awards:	33
	Estimated Total Program Funding:	82,042,248
	Federal Grant Award Ceiling:	Information not provided
	Federal Grant Award Floor:	Information not provided
	Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:	No

Applicants Eligible for this Grant: Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Additional Information on Eligibility: 1) Applicant is a public or nonprofit private entity, such as a tribal, faith-based, or community-based organization. 2) Applicant proposes to serve a service area and its associated population(s) identified in the Service Area Announcement Table available at http://www.hrsa.gov/grants/apply/assistance/sac, including: -A current Health Center Program grantee whose project period ends on, or after, October 31, 2011 and before October 1, 2012 that seeks to continue serving its current service area. -A health center not currently funded through the Health Center Program that seeks to serve an entire announced service area. -A current Health Center Program grantee that seeks to serve an entire announced service area in addition to its current service area. 3)Applicant submits only one application for consideration under a single SAC announcement number. Note: An applicant wishing to apply to serve two different service areas announced under a single announcement number must contact the Office of Policy and Program Development 4)Applicant requests section 330 funds to support the operation of a health center for the provision of required comprehensive primary, preventive, enabling, and additional health care services either directly on-site or through established arrangements without regard to ability to pay. An applicant may not propose to provide only a single service, such as dental, behavioral, or prenatal health services. 5)Applicant proposes access to services for all individuals in the service area or target population. In other words, applicant does not propose to exclusively serve a single age group (e.g., children, elderly) or health issue/disease category (e.g., HIV/AIDS). In instances where a sub-population is being targeted within the service area or target population (e.g., homeless children, adolescents/children in schools), the applicant must ensure that health care services will be made available to others in need of care who seek services at the proposed site(s). 6)Applicant requests annual Federal section 330 funding (as presented on the SF-424A) that DOES NOT exceed the established cap of section 330 funding available to support the announced service area and its designated population(s). 7)Applicant adheres to the 150-page limit on the length of the application when printed by HRSA. See Tables 2-5 for specific information regarding the documents included in the 150-page limit.
Grant Description: Health Center Program grants support a variety of community-based and patient-directed public and private nonprofit organizations that serve an increasing number of the Nation's underserved. Individually, each health center plays an important role in the goal of ensuring access to services, and combined, they have had a critical impact on the health care status of medically underserved and vulnerable populations throughout the United States and its territories. Targeting the Nation's neediest populations and geographic areas, the Health Center Program currently funds more than 1,100 health centers that operate more than 8,100 service delivery sites in every State, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Pacific Basin.
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