Opportunity Information: Apply for HRSA 18 026
The Service Area Competition (SAC) grant opportunity (HRSA-18-026) is a discretionary grant program run by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). It is part of the federal Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224) and is designed to fund operational support for organizations that deliver primary health care in specific, HRSA-announced service areas. In practical terms, SAC is a mechanism HRSA uses to make sure that communities already being served by the Health Center Program do not lose access to care when funding cycles end or when a service area is opened up for competition.
The core purpose of the SAC Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is continuity of care for medically underserved communities and vulnerable populations. Rather than creating brand-new service areas, the emphasis is on maintaining and strengthening existing access to affordable, high-quality primary care in places where the Health Center Program is already operating. The opportunity focuses on ensuring patients can keep receiving essential services locally, especially populations that tend to face barriers such as low income, lack of insurance, geographic isolation, housing instability, or other factors that make routine health care harder to obtain.
Applicants are expected to be community-based, patient-directed organizations and must be public or private nonprofit entities aligned with Health Center Program requirements. While the listing states eligibility as "Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification)," the description makes clear the intended applicants are organizations positioned to operate as HRSA health centers and meet program rules tied to serving underserved populations. The NOFO also lays out the SAC-specific eligibility requirements, the criteria reviewers will use to score applications, and the awarding factors HRSA will weigh when making final funding decisions. The funding is for operational support, meaning it is aimed at sustaining and running primary care delivery in the designated service area rather than being limited to one-time construction or equipment purchases.
For purposes of the announcement, "health center" is used broadly to include entities funded under several statutory subsections of section 330 of the Public Health Service Act. This includes Community Health Centers (CHC, section 330(e)), Migrant Health Centers (MHC, section 330(g)), Health Care for the Homeless programs (HCH, section 330(h)), and Public Housing Primary Care programs (PHPC, section 330(i)). These categories reflect the different populations and settings HRSA health centers may focus on, but all share the common goal of delivering comprehensive, accessible primary care to people who are medically underserved.
Key administrative details from the opportunity record include an original posting/creation date of September 6, 2017, with an original application closing date of November 6, 2017. HRSA anticipated making approximately 81 awards under this competition. The award ceiling is listed as 0, which typically signals that a single maximum award amount is not specified in this summary record and may instead depend on factors such as the size of the service area, scope of services, and HRSA funding determinations described in the full NOFO.
Overall, SAC functions as a competitive process to select the organization best positioned to continue providing reliable primary health care in a defined service area already tied to the Health Center Program. The intent is less about launching new initiatives and more about protecting ongoing access to front-line health services for communities that rely heavily on safety-net providers.Apply for HRSA 18 026
- The Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Service Area Competition" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.224.
- This funding opportunity was created on Sep 06, 2017.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Nov 06, 2017. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 81 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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