Colleagues,
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Health Resources Services Agency (HRSA), Office of Rural Health Policy and the Office for the Advancement
of Telehealth (OAT) have announced funding availability for the Telehealth Network Grant Program (TNGP) and the Telehealth Resource Center Grant Program (TRCGP) ...
See more below,
ENJOY!
CC
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... The TNGP will provide $2,000,000 to be
available annually to fund up to eight grantees for fiscal years 2010-2012...
... The objective of the TNGP is to demonstrate
how telehealth programs and networks can improve access to quality healthcare services in
underserved rural and urban communities ...
... The grants for
the Telehealth Networks involves the use of electronic information and
telecommunications technologies to support and promote long distance clinical healthcare, patient and professional health related education, public health, and health administration...
... In addition, the
Telehomecare Network grants will be awarded to evaluate the cost and
effectiveness of remote vital sign monitoring of individual patients to deliver healthcare services to the home by a healthcare provider using telecommunications technologies...
... For fiscal year 2010, funding
will be available for telehealth projects that comprise mixed networks to provide services to
both urban underserved areas, as well as rural areas. These projects may include some urban as well as rural Telehealth Network Partner spoke sites that receive telehealth services...
... The
TNGP seeks to fund nonprofit organizations with a demonstrable successful track record in implementing telehealth, and with knowledge on how to expand services to new communities and/or populations...
... The
deadline for TNGP (HRSA-10-213) is June 14, 2010. The program contact for TNGP is Carlos Mena with OAT and he can be reached at (301) 443-3198 or by email at
cmena@hrsa.hhs.gov.
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The
Telehealth Resource Center Grant Program (TRCGP) announcement has funding for $975,000 ...
... The Telehealth Resource
Centers (TRC) are to provide technical assistance to healthcare organization, healthcare networks, and healthcare providers to help implement cost effective telehealth programs to serve rural and medically underserved areas and populations...
... This cycle of grant
funding will support up to nine centers ... The funds will support six
regional TRCs, two Telehomecare TRCs, and one National Telehealth Resource Center.
The deadline for TRCGP applications is June
15th, 2010. The program contact for TRCGP is Monica M. Cowan, with OAT, and she can be reached at (301) 443-0076 or by email at
monica.cowan@hrsa.hhs.gov.
Read on at:
http://www.grants.gov/.