Telehealth Programs

The purpose of the Telehealth Network Program (TNGP) is to fund programs that demonstrate how telehealth networks improve healthcare services in rural and underserved communities. The Telehealth Resource Centers (TRCs) are designed to expand the avai

Telehealth Network Grant Program: Eligible applicants shall be domestic public or private, non-profit or for-profit entities with demonstrated experience utilizing telehealth technologies to serve rural underserved populations. This includes faith-based, community-based organizations, and federally-recognized tribes and tribal organizations. Telehealth Resource Centers Program: Eligible applicants include public, private non-profit and for-profit entities. Faith-based and community-based organizations, Tribes, and tribal organizations are eligible to apply. Licensure Portability Grant Program: Competing continuation applicants funded under HRSA-19-019 and new eligible applicants limited by statute to state professional licensing boards including but not limited to organizations that are in consortia with or associations of state licensing boards. Eligible applicants include domestic public or private entities. Evidence-Based Direct-to-Consumer Telehealth Network Program: Eligible applicants are domestic public or private, non-profit or for-profit entities with demonstrated experience utilizing telehealth technologies to serve rural underserved populations. This includes faith-based, community-based organizations, and federally-recognized tribes and tribal organizations. The Telehealth Centers of Excellence Program: Limited competition to incumbent Telehealth Centers of Excellence award recipients operating a successful telehealth program in a public academic medical center located in a state with high chronic disease prevalence, high poverty rates, and a large percentage of medically underserved rural areas. Telehealth Technology-Enabled Learning Program: Eligible applicants include all domestic public and private entities, nonprofit and for-profit, are eligible to apply. Domestic faith-based and community-based organizations, tribes, and tribal organizations and organizations based in the territories and freely associated states are also eligible to apply. Telehealth Research Center Program: Eligible applicants include public, for-profit and nonprofit entities. Institutions of higher education, faith-based and community-based organizations, tribes, and tribal organizations are eligible to apply. Telehealth Rapid Response Center: Eligible applicants include all domestic public or private, non-profit, and for-profit entities. Institutions of higher education, faith-based and community-based organizations, tribes, and tribal organizations are eligible to apply. Behavioral Health Integration (BHI) Evidence Based Telehealth Network Program (EB-TNP): Eligible applicants are domestic public or private, non-profit or for-profit entities that demonstrate that they will provide services through a telehealth network to rural and underserved communities. This includes faith-based, tribal and community-based organizations. The Technology-enabled Collaborative Learning Program (TCLP): Eligible applicants include all domestic public and private entities, nonprofit and for-profit. Domestic faith-based and community-based organizations, or Tribal (governments, organizations including urban Indian organizations) based in the territories and freely associated states are also eligible to apply.

Health care providers in rural areas and underserved areas; health professionals, scientist/researchers The entities that will benefit from this program are health care personnel, health research personnel, policy makers, rural and underserved population and the general public.

Applicants should review the individual HRSA notice of funding opportunity issued under this Assistance Listing for any required proof or certifications which must be submitted prior to or simultaneous with submission of an application package. 2 CFR 200, Subpart E - Cost Principles applies to this program

All funds awarded should be expended solely for carrying out approved projects in accordance with the intent of the grant or cooperative agreement as stipulated in the notice of award.

Programs are competed every three to five years. Projects awarded under a competition must complete a non-competing continuation application every year to release funds for the following budget period.

An applicant should consult the office or official designated as the single point of contact in his or her State for more information on the process the State requires to be followed in applying for assistance, if the State has selected the program for review.

Applications are generally solicited by a notice of funding opportunity in the HRSA Preview. HRSA requires applicants (for new competitions) or awardees (for continuation applications) to submit applications electronically through Grants.gov. The program guidance contains detailed application and submission instructions, including information on the non-competitive continuation application and submission process. Awardees must submit proposals according to the program guidance, which specifies required forms, contains additional general information and instructions for grant applications, including proposal narratives, and budgets. The program guidance, when available, may be obtained by: Downloading from http://www.grants.gov; or, Contacting the HRSA Grants Application Center: The Legin Group, Inc., 910 Clopper Road, Suite 155 South Gaithersburg, MD 20878, Telephone:877-477-2123 , HRSAGAC@hrsa.gov. Application information may also be found by visiting http://www.hrsa.gov/grants/. All qualified applications will be forwarded to an objective review committee. Based on the advice of the objective review committee, the HRSA program official with delegated authority is responsible for final selection and funding decisions.

See the associated Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for program-specific criteria.

All final funding decisions are made by an independent review panel that is conducted by the Health Resources and Services Administration's Division of Independent Review. Notification is made in writing by a Notice of Award.

2 months.

Renewals have not been determined.