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Expanded Services Funding For Existing Health Centers Available Under Affordable Care Act (ACA)
The Affordable Care Act provides $11 billion in funding over the next 5 years for the operation, expansion, and construction of health centers throughout the Nation. Of the $11 billion, $9.5 billion is targeted to creating new health center sites in medically underserved areas and expanding preventive and primary health care services at existing health center sites. An additional $1.5 billion will support major construction and renovation projects at health centers nationwide.
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is pleased to announce the availability of between $270 million and $335 million under the Expanded Services (ES) initiative to support supplemental funding requests in fiscal year 2011 from existing Health Center Program grantees. Funds requested may be used to support increased access to preventive and primary health care capacity including oral health, behavioral health, pharmacy, vision, and/or enabling services, at existing health center sites. Health center grantees requesting ES funds must demonstrate how these funds will be used to expand medical capacity and services to underserved populations in their service areas.
Maximum allowable funding requests are based on the patient information submitted by each Health Center Program grantee in its respective calendar year 2009 Uniform Data System report. Please see Announcement HRSA-11-148 for ES guidelines and submission instructions at http://bphc.hrsa.gov/es. Additional technical assistance materials will also be available at this site.
Each Health Center Program grantee should be receiving an email notification shortly through the HRSA Electronic HandBooks (EHB) that provides a link to the ES electronic submission, an eligibility code and the maximum amount it is eligible to request. ES funding requests must be submitted electronically in EHB by January 6, 2011 at 8:00 PM ET.
HRSA will be offering a technical assistance conference call to provide an overview of the ES funding opportunity. The presentation will be followed by a question and answer session. Please send any questions prior to the call to bphc-es@hrsa.gov.
A copy of the presentation for the conference call will be available at: http://bphc.hrsa.gov/es.
Date: Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Time: 1:30-3:30 PM ET
U.S. Conference Call Dial-in: 1-888-324-7119 Passcode: 2833964
Instant Replay Information (available approximately 1 hour after call ends):
Replay Dial-in: 866-388-5360; Passcode: 4231
