# Rural Residency Planning and Development Program

Source: https://welltoldgrants.com/grants/hrsa-22-094-rural-residency-planning-and-development-program/  
Official notice: https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/334398

> Health Resources and Services Administration offered grants of up to $750,000 to the applicants described in the notice. It expected to make about 14 awards worth $10.5 million in total. Applications closed on January 11, 2022.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Opportunity number | HRSA-22-094 |
| Agency | Health Resources and Services Administration |
| Status | Forecast |
| Deadline | January 11, 2022 |
| Award ceiling | $750,000 |
| Award floor | not stated |
| Expected awards | 14 |
| Total funding | $10.5 million |
| Cost sharing | not required |
| Assistance Listings | 93.155 |

## Who can apply

- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

Eligible entities are domestic public or private non-profit entities, including faith-based and community-based organizations, tribes, and tribal organizations. Specifically, these organizations may include, but are not limited to: 1) rural hospitals; 2) rural community-based ambulatory patient care centers, including rural health clinics; 3) health centers operated by a tribe or tribal organization, or an urban Indian organization; 4) graduate medical education consortiums, including schools of allopathic medicine or osteopathic medicine; and 5) faith-based and community-based organizations.

## What the grant funds

This notice announces the opportunity to apply for funding under the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Rural Residency Planning and Development (RRPD) Program. The purpose of this grant program is to improve health care in rural areas by supporting the development of new, accredited, and sustainable rural residency programs in family medicine, internal medicine, preventive medicine1, psychiatry, general surgery, and obstetrics and gynecology, to address the physician workforce shortages and challenges faced by rural communities. This program provides start-up funding to RRPD award recipients to create new rural residency programs that will ultimately be sustainable long-term through viable and stable funding mechanisms, such as, Medicare, Medicaid, and other public or private funding sources. For the purposes of this notice of funding opportunity, rural residencies are accredited allopathic and osteopathic physician residency programs that primarily train residents in rural training sites for greater than 50 percent of their total time in residency, and focus on producing physicians who will practice in rural communities. Rural residencies may be entirely rurally located or integrated within a larger, often urban residency program, also known as a rural training track (RTT). One common model is the 1-2 RTT format, where the first year of training occurs in an urban hospital or academic medical center, and the final two years in a rural health facility. This program aims to expand the number of physician training opportunities in rural settings and subsequently increase the number of physicians choosing to practice in rural areas. As such, RRPD funding will only support the development of new rural residency programs or RTTs and applications from existing programs will not be considered.

## Questions people ask

### Is HRSA-22-094 still open?

No. It closed on January 11, 2022. A newer notice is forecast: HRSA-27-046, expected deadline March 18, 2027.

### Who can apply for Rural Residency Planning and Development Program?

Health Resources and Services Administration accepted applications from the applicants described in the notice. The notice adds further conditions, so read its eligibility section.

### What is the deadline for Rural Residency Planning and Development Program?

Closed January 11, 2022. Applications are no longer accepted; the program's newer notices are on this page when there are any.

### How much funding is available?

Awards of up to $750,000 each. About $10.5 million in total across about 14 awards.

### Who has won Rural Health Research Centers grants before?

The largest recipients over five fiscal years were Texas Department of Agriculture, Kansas Department of Health & Environment, Iowa Department of Public Health. The program made 341 awards worth $615 million in that time.