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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 Office of Rural Health 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:
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Post-secondary educational institution offering health care instruction, teaching hospital or medical school
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Community health center or health center providing health care to migrants
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Local health department or agency
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Community mental health center
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Not-for-profit hospital
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Rural health clinic
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Consortia of providers consisting of one or more of the above entities.
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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.
Kansas Board of EMS Education and Training Incentive Grants
The 2009 Legislature, along with the support of the Governor, awarded the Kansas Board of Emergency Medical Services (KBEMS) $257,871 for FY 2010 to aid rural ambulance services in recruiting, training, and certifying ambulance attendants. The money will be awarded in the form of “education and training incentive grants” to licensed ambulance services in rural, frontier, and densely settled rural areas of Kansas. The purpose of the money is to assist rural and frontier services with the costs associated with becoming a certified attendant. It must be clearly understood and agreed upon by the operator of the ambulance service that any dollars awarded through this grant program cannot be used to supplant dollars budgeted to the service. A “Memorandum of Agreement” between the operator and KBEMS addressing this stipulation is included with the grant application. Also required is a “Memorandum of Agreement” between the student and the service which stipulates their responsibility. The application for Education Incentive Grant (EIG) funds must be submitted by the licensed ambulance service. To be eligible for receiving grant funds, the service must be currently licensed with KBEMS. Money may be requested for classes that start on or after July 1, 2009.
All applications will be accepted, but only EMS services located in frontier or rural counties are eligible for funding in the first 3 months of each grant cycle. (July 1 through September 30 and January 1 through March 31).
After the third month of each cycle, (October 1 and April 1) EMS services located in frontier or rural cities would also be eligible for funding (Burrton/Cherryvale). Although the cities are located in urban or semi-urban counties, the population density of the cities listed are rural, or densely settled rural.
After the fourth month of each cycle, (November 1 and May 1) the program would open to the densely settled rural counties (blue crosses) and densely settled rural cities (Halstead, Mt. Hope, Sedgwick, Buhler, Haven, and Pretty Prairie).