HRSA’s estimated funding for $8,000,000 under the Small Health Care Provider Quality Improvement Program supports quality improvement activities for rural primary care providers or providers of healthcare services such as CAHs, RHCs, or a network of rural health providers.
The goal of the Small Health Care Provider Quality Improvement Program is to promote the development of a quality improvement culture and the delivery of cost-effective, coordinated, culturally appropriate, and equitable healthcare services in rural primary care settings.
Program objectives include increased care coordination, enhanced chronic disease management, improve health outcomes for patients, prepare rural healthcare providers for quality reporting, and pay-for-performance programs.
Applicants are encouraged to address the underlying factors driving growing rural health disparities related to heart disease, cancer, unintentional injury/substance use, chronic lower respiratory disease, and stroke.
The funding announcement was posted December 21, 2021 with the closing date for applications to be March 21, 2022.
Go to https://www.grants.gov/custom/printSynopsisDetails.jsp for more information or email Kanokphan Mew Pongsiri at ksponsfiri@hrsa.gov .