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Kansas Rural Health Information Service

If you would like to receive timely announcements about grant program announcements or other funding opportunities, register for the Kansas Rural Health Information Service. Registration takes only a few minutes and is absolutely free. Sign up to receive information on Grants and Funding, provided to you by the Bureau of Local and Rural Health.

Rural Assistance Center Rural Assistance Center

The Rural Assistance Center (RAC)  is a rural health and human services "information portal" sponsored by the University of North Dakota Center for Rural Health, the Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI), the Welfare Information Network, and the federal Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

RAC has a Funding Announcement web page as well as a searchable funding database. 

Also, RAC information specialists are available to assist you in your search for information relating to rural health and human services. The RAC Office is currently staffed Monday-Friday 8:00am - 5:00pm CST and can be reached by phone at 1-800-270-1898, by fax at 1-800-270-1913, or by email at info@raconline.org
 



Grants Clearinghouse Kansas

A central starting point for state and local units of government and other interested parties for researching grant opportunities online is available from the state of Kansas at kansasgrants.org. The site has information for funding many programs outside of healthcare, but has links to many federal grant programs.

KAN-ED

The KAN-ED network, administered by KAN-ED in the Kansas Board of Regents, was created to connect communications service providers throughout the state to a high-speed telecommunications network and to provide basic network connectivity for all K-12 schools, institutions of higher education, libraries and hospitals.

KAN-ED also provides funding to constituents to enhance access to telecommunications services and to develop networks that seek to develop multidisciplinary approaches to the development of innovative new medial and digital content and services. One source of funding is the KAN-ED subsidy program. Each member of KAN-ED is provided an annual subsidy to enhance telecommunications infrastructure. Every community hospital in Kansas is eligible to receive a subsidy, but the hospital must be a member of the KAN-ED network. Visit KAN-ED to learn about membership.

KAN-ED also provides grants for members to acquire equipment and technology, and invites proposals for the acquisition and/or development of exemplary content for end-user communities served by KAN-ED. Visit KAN-ED to learn more about these grants and funding opportunities.

Federal Office of Rural Health Policy

The Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP) administers several grant programs aimed at expanding access to, coordinating, restraining cost of, and improving the quality of essential health care in rural areas.  Three ORHP grants are available to community-based provider organizations, including the Rural Health Outreach Grant, the Rural Network Development Grant, and the new Rural Network Development Planning Grant.  Descriptions of these programs can be found on the ORHP funding page.  The Bureau of Local and Rural Health is funded by ORHP, and is able to provide technical assistance with these grant applications.  Contact Chris Tilden at ctilden@kdheks.gov  for more information. 

Click here for a list of other links to grants and other funding opportunities.

Office for the Advancement of Telehealth

The Office for the Advancement of Telehealth (OAT) administers the OAT Telehealth Network Grant Program that helps increase access to quality health care services for the underserved by promoting the use of advanced telecommunications and information technologies by rural health providers across America.  Click here for more information on the OAT telehealth grants.

 

USAC Rural Health Care

  • Rural Health Care is a universal service support mechanism authorized by Congress and designed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to provide reduced rates to rural Health Care Providers (HCPs) for telecommunications services related to the use of telemedicine & telehealth.  Eligible providers must be a public or not-for-profit organization located in a rural area that fits within one of the following categories:

    • Post-secondary educational institution offering health care instruction, teaching hospital or medical school

    • Community health center or health center providing health care to migrants

    • Local health department or agency

    • Community mental health center

    • Not-for-profit hospital

    • Rural health clinic

    • Consortia of providers consisting of one or more of the above entities.

More information is available on the USAC Rural Health Care website.

For technical assistance in completing an application to the Rural Health Care program contact Dan Dietrich too free at 866-372-8302.  He is under contract with KAN-ED to assist hospitals with the application process.