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State and Federal Grant Opportunities
South Dakota Critical Access Hospital Grants
Funder: South Dakota Department of Health, Office of Rural Health
Purpose: Funds may be used for the development of new projects or to enhance existing projects that address state and federal priority areas
- Priorities include: Health information technology or telehealth projects that develop/strengthens clinical applications
Contact: Kenny Doppenberg at South Dakota Department of Health Office of Rural Health 605-773-5883 or Kenneth.doppenberg@state.sd.us.
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Funder: Minnesota Office of Rural Health & Primary Care
Purpose: The grant program assists small (50 or fewer beds) rural hospitals and their communities in:
- Developing strategic plans for preserving access to health services
- Implementing transition projects to modify the type and extent of services provided
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Funder: Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota
Purpose: Support those communities who demonstrate an effective plan to successfully improve health care delivery to the rural population by utilizing HIT.
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Funder: USDA
Purpose: Provide distance learning or telemedicine services for the term of the grant. Equipment must be used at least 50% of the time for telehealth.
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Funder: USDA
Purpose: To delivery or propose to delivery distance learning or telemedicine for the term of the loan.
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Rural Emergency Responders Initiative
Funder: USDA
Purpose: The rural development, through its community facilities program, provides funding for the Rural Emergency Responders Initiative to specifically strengthen the ability of rural communities to respond to local emergencies. The community facilities program funds are used to support rural emergency responder efforts by financing needed equipment and services.
Contact: Contact your USDA Rural Development State Office
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Funder: HRSA
Purpose: The grant program helps rural entities plan, organize and develop a healthcare network. The support from the program helps health care networks become operational and be able to develop the right strategies for becoming sustainable.
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Funder: HRSA
Purpose: This program encourages the development of new and innovative health care delivery systems in rural communities that lack essential care services. The emphasis of the grant program is on service delivery through collaboration, requiring the grantee to form a consortium with at least two additional partners.
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Funder: AHRQ
Purpose: Support planning, implementation, and evaluation of health IT, and to foster health information exchange.
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Funder: USAC
Purpose: Provides discounts to rural health care providers to obtain Internet and telecommunication access.
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Funder: USDA Rural Development
Purpose: Designed to provide loans for funding, on a technology neutral basis, the costs of construction, improvement and acquisition of facilities and equipment to provide broadband services to eligible rural communities. The Programs’ goal is to ensure that rural consumers enjoy the same quality and range of telecommunications services that are available in urban and suburban communities.
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Funder: Office of the Advancement of Telehealth
Purpose: Awards demonstration grants to networks that show how telehealth technologies can expand access to quality healthcare; improve and expand training of health care providers; and expand and improve the quality of health information available to providers and patients.
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Funder: USDA Rural Utilities Service
Purpose: Grants for communities without broadband service to provide residential service and connect facilities such as police and fire stations, health care, libraries and schools.
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Funder: Office of the Advancement of Telehealth
Purpose: To develop telehealth network projects in rural areas, in medically underserved areas, in frontier communities, and for medically underserved populations, to:
- Expand access to, coordinate, and improve the quality of health care services
- Improve and expand the training of health care providers
- Expand and improve the quality of health information available to health care providers, and patients and their families
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Private Foundation Opportunities
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Funder: Medica Foundation
Purpose: Varies on priorities
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Funder: Wellmark Foundation
Purpose: To bring groups together within a community to impact the health improvement
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Funder: Wal-Mart
Purpose: Includes a program or initiative that works to improve access to healthcare and to promote healthy lifestyles.
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Funder: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Purpose: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation provides grants for projects in the United States and U.S. territories that advances the mission to improve the health and health care of all Americans. Programs must address one of our seven program areas which include: building human capital, childhood obesity, coverage, pioneer, public health, quality/equality or vulnerable population.
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Regional Opportunities
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Funder: Avera Foundation
Purpose: This is an opportunity to be creative, to be innovative to dream about creating a program or project that will impact the current and ongoing health of your community.
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Funder: Southwest Initiative Foundation
Purpose: Program must demonstrate a benefit within at least one 18 counties in southwest Minnesota. Targeted and diverse populations are involved in early in the development of the proposed project and through the implementation.
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