Rural Residency Planning and Development (RRPD) program
Closed Posted
- Opportunity number
- HRSA-25-007
- Agency
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Health Resources and Services Administration
Department of Health and Human Services
- Applications due
- Award size
- Up to $750,000
Opportunity facts
- Assistance listings
- Funding instrument
- Grant
- Category
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- Health
- Eligible applicants
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- Tribal Organizations (Not Federally Recognized)
- Other
- Higher Education Inst. (Private)
- Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized)
- Points of contact
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- Beverly Smith ruralresidency@hrsa.gov (301) 443-7065
Opportunity details come from Grants.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is seeking applicants for the Rural Residency Planning and Development (RRPD) program, which aims to improve and expand access to healthcare in rural areas by developing new, sustainable rural residency programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). The program will provide start-up funding to create these new rural residency programs, which must focus on family medicine, internal medicine, preventive medicine, psychiatry, general surgery, or obstetrics-gynecology, with over 50% of training occurring at rural sites. Eligible applicants include public/private institutions of higher education, rural hospitals, rural community-based ambulatory care centers, and Native American tribal organizations. Applications are due by April 10, 2025.
This program will award approximately 15 grants of up to $750,000 each, with a total available funding of $11.25 million in FY2025. The three-year period of performance runs from August 1, 2025 to July 31, 2028, and recipients must develop sustainability plans to secure long-term funding through Medicare, Medicaid, or other public/private sources.
Synopsis
The purpose of the Rural Residency Planning and Development (RRPD) program is to improve and expand access to health care in rural areas by developing new sustainable rural residency programs, including rural track programs (RTPs). These residency programs must achieve accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Newly created rural residency programs will increase the number of future physicians training in rural areas, and ultimately the number of physicians practicing in rural areas with the goal of addressing the physician workforce shortages in rural communities. The RRPD program provides start-up funding to create new rural residency programs in qualifying medical specialties that will be sustainable long-term through viable and stable funding mechanisms, such as Medicare, Medicaid, and other public or private funding sources. Qualifying medical specialties are family medicine, internal medicine, preventive medicine, psychiatry, general surgery, and obstetrics and gynecology. For this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO), rural residency programs: •Are accredited physician residency programs. •Train residents in clinical training sites that are physically located in a rural area as defined by HRSA's Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) [1] for greater than 50 percent of their total time in residency. •Focus on producing physicians who will practice in rural communities. The purpose of the RRPD Program is to fund the development of new rural residency programs in qualifying medical specialties. For this funding opportunity, we consider "new" programs to include both programs seeking accreditation for the first time and existing programs that apply for a permanent complement increase to train additional residents at new rural training site(s) as part of an RTP. To be responsive to the program purpose and be considered for funding, you must propose a new rural residency program in a qualifying medical specialty. For this funding opportunity, we do not consider the following to be new programs: •Programs that have received accreditation or a permanent complement increase for their proposed rural residency program before the application due date. •Programs seeking to increase resident full-time equivalents at an existing RTP site without adding a new rural training site.
Files
| File | Type | Posted |
|---|---|---|
| HRSA-25-007 TA Webinar Notice for Related Doc tab on Grants.gov.pdf | ||
| HRSA-25-007.pdf | ||
| HRSA-25-007.pdf |
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