December 6, 2024

New Funding Available for Rural Health Care Services Outreach Program

Apply by January 27, 2025

The Rural Health Care Services Outreach Program (Outreach) is open and accepting applications for the program’s 4-year period of performance (May 1, 2025-April 30, 2029).  HRSA will make up to 50 awards to support rural communities to expand the delivery of health care services. These awards include:

• An estimated 40 awards, each up to $250,000 per year, under the program’s regular track to support healthcare needs identified by the rural community applicant;
• Up to 10 awards, each up to $300,000 per year, under the program’s special track to address the underlying factors that drive rural health disparities related to heart disease, cancer, unintentional injury/substance use, chronic lower respiratory disease, stroke, and maternal health.

Eligible applicants include all domestic public and private, nonprofit, and for-profit entities with demonstrated experience serving, or the capacity to serve, rural underserved populations.  Applicants are also required to propose projects that serve exclusively HRSA-designated rural areas and be a part of a network comprised of three or more organizations with at least two-thirds or 66% percent network organizations physically located in a HRSA-designated rural area.

Successful Outreach Program awardees will: 1) expand the delivery of health care services to include new and enhanced services exclusively in rural communities; 2) use innovative, evidence-based and promising practice models to inform their approach to addressing needs specific to their community; 3) demonstrate health outcomes;  and 4) plan for sustainability after grant funding ends.

A technical assistance webinar via Zoom will be held for applicants on Wednesday, Dec 11 at 2:00 pm Eastern.   

Examples of previously funded projects under this program are available at this link.  Applicants may also benefit from the availability of Evidence-Based Toolkits for Rural Community Health which are informed by previous program investments by the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy and the Rural Health Information Hub.

For more information about this funding opportunity, contact the Program Coordinator, Mew Pongsiri, at RuralOutreachProgram@hrsa.gov.

Helpful links

Notice of Funding Opportunity on Grants.gov

Profiles of current and past Outreach Program grantees

Evidence-Based Toolkits for Rural Community Health