Rural Residency Planning and Development Program
The summary for the Rural Residency Planning and Development Program grant is detailed below.
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Rural Residency Planning and Development 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.Preventive 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.
| Federal Grant Title: | Rural Residency Planning and Development Program |
| Federal Agency Name: | Health Resources and Services Administration (HHS-HRSA) |
| Grant Categories: | Health |
| Type of Opportunity: | Discretionary |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | HRSA-26-047 |
| Type of Funding: | Grant |
| CFDA Numbers: | 93.746 |
| CFDA Descriptions: | Information not provided |
| Current Application Deadline: | July 8th, 2026 |
| Original Application Deadline: | July 8th, 2026 |
| Posted Date: | June 5th, 2026 |
| Creation Date: | June 5th, 2026 |
| Archive Date: | August 8th, 2026 |
| Total Program Funding: | $11,250,000 |
| Maximum Federal Grant Award: | $750,000 |
| Minimum Federal Grant Award: | $0 |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 15 |
| Cost Sharing or Matching: | No |
| Last Updated: | June 5th, 2026 |
- Applicants Eligible for this Grant
- State governments - County governments - City or township governments - Special district governments - Independent school districts - Public and State controlled institutions of higher education - Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized) - Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments) - Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education - Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education - Private institutions of higher education - For-profit organizations other than small businesses - Small businesses - Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification.)
- Additional Information on Eligibility
- 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.
- Grant Announcement Contact
- Jason Steele
[email protected]
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