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Grant Details:
Application Due Date: Summer 2010 est

Description: 

Program Purpose:

Network Development Grants provide funding to help rural communities strengthen their health care systems. Grants support rural providers for up to three years who work together in formal networks, alliances, coalitions, or partnerships to integrate administrative, clinical, financial, and technological functions across their organizations. This integration of functions and services help to overcome the fragmentation of health care services in rural areas, improves coordination of those services, and achieves economies of scale.

These grants are designed to further ongoing collaborative relationships among health care organizations by funding rural health networks that focus on integrating clinical information, administrative, and financial systems across members. The goal is to strengthen rural health care systems at the community, regional and State levels by funding these formal, horizontally or vertically integrated networks.

Eligibility:

The applicant organization must be a public or nonprofit entity that is a network or is a member of a network that includes at least three separately owned health care providers or other entities that provide or support the delivery of health care services.

Organization Information:
Organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Website: http://www.hhs.gov/

Contact Information:
Contact Name: Office of Rural Health Policy
Contact Phone: (301) 443-0835

More Information:
http://ruralhealth.hrsa.gov/funding/network.htm