Grant Funding Opportunities

Funding sources

• American Osteopathic Association
  Provides information on “What Funding is Available?”
• Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC)
  A federal-state partnership that works for sustainable community and economic development in Appalachia. Find out if you quality for funding and/or grants. 
• Delta Regional Authority (DRA)
  Works to improve regional economic opportunity by helping to create jobs, build communities, and improve the lives of the 10 million people who reside in 252 counties and parishes of the eight-state Delta region.   
• HRSA eNews is a twice-monthly publication that provides updates on HRSA's programs, funding opportunities, events, and other timely information. 
• HRSA - Federal Office of Rural Health Policy Grants 
  Find out upcoming and recent funding opportunities, and learn more about the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP). Includes news and announcements on Rural Hospital programs, rural health policy announcements, and recorded webinars. 
• Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility (FLEX) Grant
  The FLEX Grant  provides funding to states to assist Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs). Current grant guidelines allow assistance in the following areas: Qualty Improvement, Financial and Operational Improvement, Population Health Management and Emergency Medical Services Integration, CAH Designation, Integration of Innovative Health Care Models.  
• Rural Health Information Hub (RHI)
  Stay current on rural health news, funding opportunities, research, and more with RHIs email updates.
• Rural Hospital Improvement (SHIP) Grant
  The Federal Office of Rural Health Policy provides Small Rural Hospital Improvement (SHIP) Grant Program funds to State Offices of Rural Health to assist small rural hospitals with activities related to any or all of the following: Value-Based Purchasing, Accountable Care Organizations or Shared Savings, Payment Bundling/Medicare Prospective Payment System. 
  For the Small Rural Hospital Improvement (SHIP) Grant Program, a small rural hospital is defined as one with 49 beds or less (as reported on the hospital's most recently filed Medicare Cost Report) and located in a rural area. All Critical Access Hospitals are eligible for the program. Other hospitals with 49 beds or less can check their rural status by using the Rural Health Grants Eligibility Analyzer Tool at the following web address: https://datawarehouse.hrsa.gov/tools/analyzers/geo/Rural.aspx.
  Hospitals must submit an application annually and are required to submit status and final reports on all activities. For more information, please contact our office at 601-576-7216.