Transcript HRSA Mission and Goals

HRSA Mission and Goals
HRSA provides national leadership, program resources and services needed to improve
access to culturally competent, quality health care.
As the Nation's access agency, HRSA focuses on uninsured,
underserved, and special needs populations in its goals and
program activities:
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Improve Access to Health Care.
Improve Health Outcomes.
Improve the Quality of Health Care.
Eliminate Health Disparities.
Improve the Public Health and Health Care Systems.
Enhance the Ability of the Health Care System to Respond to Public
Health Emergencies.
– Achieve Excellence in Management Practices
System Message:
HRSA Call Center will be providing extended
support during the week of May 17th - May
21st from the hours of 8 A.M. to 7 P.M. EST.
Title VII Funding for Physician Assistants
Purpose
• Funds may be used to plan, develop, and operate a physician
assistants education program and for the training of
individuals who will teach in programs to provide such
training.
• Funds may be used to plan, develop, and operate a program
for the training of physician assistants teaching in communitybased settings.
Deadline:
1) Grants.gov
2) HRSA EHBs
5:00 P.M. ET on May 21, 2010.
Title VII Funding for Physician Assistants
Eligibility
A “Physician Assistant Education Program” is an educational
program in a public or private institution in a State that:
• Has as its objective the education of individuals who,
upon completion of their studies in the program, will be
qualified to provide primary care medical services with
the supervision of a physician; and
• Is accredited by the Accreditation Review Commission
on Education for the Physician Assistant.
New Interdisciplinary Program Area
(MPAS/MPH?)
• Interdisciplinary and Interprofessional Joint Graduate Degree
(HRSA-10-236)
• Funds may be used to plan, develop, and operate joint degree
programs to provide interdisciplinary and interprofessional
graduate training in public health and other health
professions . . .
FYI
Collaborative Applications
Collaborative applications between two or more primary care
medicine disciplines. Collaborative applications are allowed
however, applicants are not required to submit a collaborative
application.
Step 1: Connected with a grants
management division in your institution?
• Obtain an organizational Data Universal Number System (DUNS)
number
• Register the organization with Central Contractor Registry (CCR)
• Identify the organization’s E-Business POC (Point of Contact)
• Confirm the organization’s CCR “Marketing Partner ID Number
(M-PIN)” password
• Register an Authorized Organization Representative (AOR)
• Obtain a username and password from the Grants.gov
Credential Provider
Step 2: Funding Factors
• Page 32+
• Funding Priorities (8) and Preferences: Medically underserved
communities
• Each funding priority has a point value of five (5) points.
Partial points will not be awarded
• Gather data
Step 3: Special Considerations
• Special consideration shall be given to projects that prepare
practitioners to care for:
– underserved populations
– other high risks groups
e.g., elderly, individuals with HIV/AIDS, substance
abusers, homeless, and victims of domestic violence
• Healthy People 2010 goals
Step 4: Writing the Grant
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Use the Program Guidance!
Create the outline from the Program Guidance
One person should coordinate the grant
Assign action items and timelines for each objective
Write the content to be consistent with the 6 Review Criteria
Grants Limited to 65 Pages
• Includes the abstract, project and budget narratives,
attachments, and letters of commitment and support.
Standard forms are NOT included in the page limit.
• Trainee stipends are not specifically proscribed for PA
programs.
Program Guidance Outline--65 page (10 MB)
• Project Abstract--1 pages
• Progress Report*--<3 pages
– Specific Objectives and
Methodology
– Outcomes and Evaluation
• Project Narrative
– Introduction
• Organizational Information
• Needs Assessment (Rationale)
*If needed: “received funding in the
last four years”
• Methodology
• Work Plan
– Resolution of Challenges
• Outcome Measures and
Dissemination
• Forms (multiple)
• Attachments
– Organizational charts
– Letters of agreement
– Budget
Application Review Information
100 Points Total--6 Criteria
• Need (15 pts)
– Narrative section: Needs
Assessment
• Response (30 pts)
– Narrative sections:
Methodology, Work Plan,
Resolution of Challenges
• Evaluative Measures (15 pts)
– Narrative sections: Evaluation
and Technical Support
• Impact (10 pts)
– Narrative sections: Outcome
Measures and Dissemination
• Resources/Capabilities (20 pts)
– Narrative sections:
Organizational Information,
Work Plan, and Progress
Report
• Support Requested (10 pts)
– Budget Justification
FUNDING PRIORITIES
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Innovative approaches
– PCMH
– Chronic Dz
– Interprofessional
2. Trainees enter and remain in
primary care practice
3. Underrepresented minority
groups or from a rural or
disadvantaged background
4. Care of vulnerable populations
– HIV/Aids, Homeless, MH
– Abuse/Elders/Disabilities
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Formal relationships
– CHCs, FQHCs, AHECs
6. Interprofessional/integrated
care
7. Cultural competency and health
literacy
8. AAU collaborative only
FUNDING PREFERENCES
Medically Underserved Communities
(MUC)
• High rate for placing graduates/program completers in MUCs
• Significant increase in the rate of placing graduates/program
completers in MUCs
• Eleven sites qualify: CHC, MHCs, Homeless, Rural, etc.
Key Points
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Know the purpose of HRSA grant support
Identify program needs within the HRSA framework
Strongly consider investing faculty time as HRSA grant reviewers
Register at Grants.gov or become familiar with grants
management at your institution (DUNS, POC, M-PIN, AOR)
Study the Program Guidance (don’t be intimidated)
Use the Program Guidance as an outline
Use the Review Criteria as a sub-outline
Write the content in the comprehensive framework and to be
consistent with the 6 Review Criteria
Key Points
• From the outset, use tables from the Program Guidance to
track faculty and students (disadvantaged, gender, race,
ethnicity, medically underserved training and employment)
• Continuously track data for future reporting on performance
reviews and progress reports
• Contact successful Program Directors (PIs) to see if they will
share copies of their grants
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
HRSA Call Center hours extended: May 17-21, 8 am to 7 pm ET,
1-877-464-4772 (TTY: 877-897-9910)
For further assistance with your grant application, contact:
Dave Keahey: [email protected]
Anita Glicken: [email protected]