ClosedOpportunity HRSA-23-042

Rural Quality Improvement Technical Assistance Cooperative Agreement

Health Resources and Services Administration · Department of Health and Human Services

At a glance

Rural Quality Improvement Technical Assistance Cooperative Agreement is a closed federal cooperative agreement opportunity from the Health Resources and Services Administration (Department of Health and Human Services). The application deadline was February 17, 2023. Individual awards are listed as up to $640K, with about 1 award expected and $640K in total estimated funding. Applicant types listed as eligible include state governments, county governments, city or township governments, special district governments, independent school districts and 7 more. Cost sharing is not required. It is funded under Assistance Listing 93.155 (Rural Health Research Centers).

Summary assembled from the official notice's fields. The official notice governs.

Key facts

Nov 28, 2022Posted
Feb 17, 2023Application deadline

Posted: Nov 28, 2022
Close date: Feb 17, 2023
Award floor: Not specified
Award ceiling: $640,000
Est. total funding: $640,000
Expected awards: 1
Cost sharing: Not required
Funding instrument: Cooperative Agreement
Opportunity category: Discretionary

Who can apply

State governments
County governments
City or township governments
Special district governments
Independent school districts
Public colleges & universities
Federally recognized tribal governments
Native American tribal organizations
501(c)(3) nonprofits
For-profit organizations (not small businesses)
Small businesses
Others (see notice)

Additional information on eligibility (from the notice)

Eligible applicants include domestic public or private, non-profit or for-profit organizations. Institutions of higher education, faith-based and community-based organizations, tribes, and tribal organizations are eligible to apply.

Also named in the notice's eligibility text

Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status
Private colleges & universities

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Can your organization apply?

A quick check against the listed applicant types — other requirements in the notice still apply.

Based on the published notice. Review the official notice for complete eligibility requirements.

What it funds

Official synopsis as published by the agency, formatted for readability.

This notice announces the opportunity to apply for funding under the Rural Quality Improvement Technical Assistance (RQITA) Cooperative Agreement. The purpose of this program is to advance efforts to improve health care and quality of care in rural areas by supporting quality measure implementation, data reporting, and the use of data to drive improvements in care. This program directly supports critical access hospitals (CAHs) as Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility (Flex) Program beneficiaries in carrying out activities of the Flex Program, and to meet the goals of the Medicare Beneficiary Quality Improvement Program (MBQIP).The purpose of MBQIP is to improve quality of care provided in CAHs by increasing quality data reporting and drive quality improvement activities based on the data.
Technical assistance (TA) shall be provided to beneficiaries of the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) quality initiatives, such as award recipients, CAHs, small rural health care providers, and other health care facilities/providers in rural areas. Reducing provider burden of participation in quality measurement reporting is a priority of this program.
TA support for quality measurement and improvement should include, but is not limited to the following:
• Expanding capacity to use data for quality improvement;
• Providing TA to improve understanding of health information technology and related quality measurement and improvement efforts (including electronic clinical measures);
• Supporting implementation of quality measures, measure reporting, and identifying rural-relevant measures for MBQIP;
• Identifying and disseminating strategies and evidence-based practices for using data to drive quality improvement efforts, in alignment with federal quality measurement and improvement priorities; and
• Providing TA and developing products or adapting existing products to support rural quality measure reporting and uptake.

Full announcement & documents

The full announcement has the complete rules — page limits, required attachments, evaluation criteria and any letter-of-intent dates. Files download directly from Grants.gov.

HRSA-23-042 Notice of Funding OpportunityFull Announcement · HRSA-23-042_RQITA Final.pdfPDF · 401 KB

Assistance Listing

What is an ALN?

93.155Rural Health Research CentersProgram →

Reported obligations under ALN 93.155

Historical data · not a prediction

FY24

$7.7M

FY25

$6.09M

FY26

$6.43M est.

Source: SAM.gov Assistance Listing 93.155. Program-wide totals, not awards from this specific opportunity.

Agency contact (as published)

Health Resources and Services Administration
nvargas@hrsa.gov
301-443-7432

Quick answers

Who is eligible to apply for “Rural Quality Improvement Technical Assistance Cooperative Agreement”?

The official notice lists these applicant types as eligible: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Public colleges & universities, Federally recognized tribal governments, Native American tribal organizations, 501(c)(3) nonprofits, For-profit organizations (not small businesses), Small businesses and Others (see notice). Additional restrictions may apply; review the full notice.

How much funding is available through “Rural Quality Improvement Technical Assistance Cooperative Agreement”?

Per the notice, individual awards are listed as up to $640k, total estimated program funding is $640,000 and the agency expects to make about 1 awards.

How do I apply for “Rural Quality Improvement Technical Assistance Cooperative Agreement”?

Applications are submitted through the official source, not through GrantsJunction. Open the official notice on Grants.gov (opportunity HRSA-23-042), and review the full announcement and application package. Organizations applying through Grants.gov generally need an active SAM.gov registration and a Grants.gov account, which can take several weeks to set up.

Matched on shared Assistance Listings, agency, categories and eligible applicant types.

ForecastedALN 93.912