Service Area Competition ? Additional Areas (SAC-AA) ? GA; KS; LA; MS; MT; PA; SC; TX; and WA

Funding Opportunity Number: HRSA-15-141 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: GrantCategory of Funding Activity: HealthCFDA Number: 93.224Eligible Applicants Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)Agency Name: HHS-HRSAClosing Date: Mar 25, 2015Award Ceiling: $0Expected Number of Awards: 9Creation Date: Jan 20, 2015Funding Opportunity Description: Health centers improve the health of the Nation?s underserved communities and vulnerable populations by ensuring access to comprehensive, culturally competent, quality primary health care services.? Health Center Program grants support a variety of community-based and patient-directed public and private nonprofit organizations that serve an increasing number of the Nation?s underserved. Individually, each health center plays an important role in the goal of ensuring access to services, and combined, they have had a critical impact on the health care status of medically underserved and vulnerable populations throughout the United States and its territories.? The Health Center Program targets the Nation?s neediest populations and geographic areas by currently funding approximately 1,300 health centers that operate over 9,000 service delivery sites in every state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Pacific Basin.? In 2013, more than 21 million patients, including medically underserved and u...
Source: Grants.gov - Category: Research Tags: Health Source Type: funding