OpportunityTitle: Small Health Care Provider Quality Improvement
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: To be eligible for the Rural Quality Grant Program, the applicant organization must meet the following geographic and organization requirements:  a.Geographic Requirements: Applicants must meet at least one of the three requirements stated below.  Failure to meet one of these geographic requirements will result in the application being considered ineligible and returned without review.  1)The applicant must be located in a rural area, as determined by eligible rural county or census tracts, and all services must be provided in a rural county or census tract.  To ascertain rural eligibility, please refer to: http://datawarehouse.hrsa.gov/RuralAdvisor.  Failure to meet this criterion will result in the application being returned without review. 2)The applicant exists exclusively to provide services to migrant and seasonal farmworkers in rural areas and is supported under Section 330(g) of the Public Health Service Act, as amended.   3)The applicant is a Tribal government whose grant-funded activities will be conducted within their Federally-recognized Tribal area (documentation of status as a Federally-recognized Native American Tribe must be included). b.Organization Requirements: The applicant must be a rural public or rural non-profit private entity and must not previously have received a grant for the Rural Quality Grant Program or similar project (e.g., HRSA&#146;s Bureau of Primary Health Care Health Disparities Collaborative grant recipients are ineligible).  Examples of some eligible entities include:  rural health clinics (RHCs), critical access hospitals (CAHs), small rural hospitals, and Federally Qualified Health Centers.  Please note that for-profit RHCs and CAHs can apply, but must provide a verification letter of their status.   Rural public, rural non-profit, or other providers of healthcare services, such as a critical access hospital or rural health clinic.
Description: The purpose of the Small Health Care Provider Quality Improvement Grant (SHCPQI)is to assist rural providers with the implementation of quality improvement strategies, while improving patient care and chronic disease outcomes.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: Contact HRSA Call Center at 877-Go4-HRSA/877-464-4772;301-998-7373 or email
GrantorContactText: CallCenter@HRSA.GOV&lt;br/&gt;CallCenter@HRSA.GOV&lt;br/&gt;