Proposals sought for rural health care collaboration grants
The Maine Health Access Foundation is seeking proposals for a new round of $30,000 grants designed to help rural under-served areas find ways to make health care services sustainable.
The foundation will offer up to five 12-month grants to organizations in rural communities that want to develop collaborative multi-sector partnerships and engage members of the community in innovative health care delivery strategies that will strengthen local health systems, the foundation said in a news release Wednesday.
The deadline for proposals is 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9. The foundation is hosting an informational webinar from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, Sept. 22, for those interested in applying for grants.
Goals of the grant program
In a news release, Maine Health Access Foundation outlined several health care activities it envisions would be supported by the grants:
- Support discussion of regional health care delivery and resource allocation.
- Engage communities in defining and prioritizing needs and propose solutions
- Leverage public and private capacity and resources
- Advance individual and population health.
Who’s eligible?
Applicant organizations must be located in or serve one or more rural communities where in-patient hospital services are limited to 25 or fewer beds, or there are no inpatient services. Community residents must be included “in a meaningful way,” so that they can both help define what is needed and develop strategies to achieve the collective goals, the foundation said.
The grantees will also be eligible to compete in late 2018 for up to three one-year acceleration grants of up to $75,000, which fund collaborative pilot programs outlined in the first-year process.
Previous recipients
Last year, catalyst grants were awarded to Health Access Network Inc. in Lincoln; Piscataquis Healthcare Collaborative at Mayo Hospital in Dover-Foxcroft; and Pines Health Services in Caribou.
Acceleration grants were awarded to Central Maine Healthcare in Lewiston for a program in Rumford and Bridgeton, and the Healthy Acadia Washington County Substance Use Response Initiative.
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