OpportunityTitle: Telehealth Resource Center Grant Program
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: TRCGP - A grantee must be a public or private nonprofit organization.  Faith-based and community based organizations are eligible to apply, as are American Indian and/or Alaska Native Tribal Organizations that meet the following criteria.  Regional TRCs must demonstrate expertise the operational and business aspects of developing a successful program, as well as in measuring performance and evaluating services.  In addition, they must demonstrate substantive experience in at least four (4) of the following areas: Clinical Outpatient Specialty Care; Critical or Emergency Care; Residential telehealth (home care)/chronic disease management; Nursing Home/Inpatient Care; Distance Education, Training, and information dissemination; Store-and-Forward; Teleradiology.  Regional TRCs must demonstrate that they have the capacity, through contractual arrangements or memoranda of agreements with other organizations, to address any of the areas where they are not expert.   The National TRC exhibits expertise in the following areas: Reimbursement (Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance); Licensure (legislative and regulatory issues); Privacy, security, and confidentiality legislation at federal and state levels; Food and Drug Administration regulation; Telecommunications legal and regulatory issues; and, Private credentialing and accreditation organizations and issues (e.g., Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations).    TRCGP - A grantee must be a public or private nonprofit organization.  Faith-based and community based organizations are eligible to apply, as are American Indian and/or Alaska Native Tribal Organizations that meet the following criteria.  Regional TRCs must demonstrate expertise the operational and business aspects of developing a successful program, as well as in measuring performance and evaluating services.  In addition, they must demonstrate substantive experience in at least four (4) of the following areas: Clinical Outpatient Specialty Care; Critical or Emergency Care; Residential telehealth (home care)/chronic disease management; Nursing Home/Inpatient Care; Distance Education, Training, and information dissemination; Store-and-Forward; Teleradiology.  Regional TRCs must demonstrate that they have the capacity, through contractual arrangements or memoranda of agreements with other organizations, to address any of the areas where they are not expert.   The National TRC exhibits expertise in the following areas: Reimbu.........
Description: The primary purpose of the Telehealth Resource Center Grant Program (TRCGP) is to support the establishment and development of Telehealth Resource Centers (TRC). These centers are to assist health care organizations, health care networks, and health care providers in the implementation of cost-effective Telehealth programs to serve rural and medically underserved areas and populations. As such, it is designed for mature, successful programs and consortia of programs to assist start-up and nascent Telehealth programs in their development and to provide a resource to existing programs in the implementation of more effective and sustainable Telehealth services.
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;