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Grant Details:
Application Due Date: February 2011 est

Description: 

Overview:

The Office of Rural Health Policy's Small Rural Hospital Improvement (SHIP) Grant Program provides funding to small rural hospitals to help them do any or all of the following:

1. Pay for costs related to the implementation of PPS

2. Comply with provisions of HIPAA

3. Reduce medical errors and support quality improvements

Eligibility:

Hospital must be:

1. Small is definied as 49 available beds or less, as reported on the hospital;s most recently filed Medicare Cost Report

2. Rural is definied as located outside a Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA) or located in a rural census tract of a MSA as determined under the Goldsmith Modification or the Rural Urban Communiting Areas

3. Hospital is defined as a non-Federal, short-term, general acute care facility.

In addition, all designated Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) are eligible, as well as hospitals with fewer than 50 beds located in an area designated by any State law or regulation as a rural area or as a rural hospital. There is no requirement for matching funds with this program.

Geographic Eligibility of Rural Grant Programs

State Office of Rural Health Contacts

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

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

More Information:
http://ruralhealth.hrsa.gov/ship.htm