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Grants & Programs

As part of HRSA, the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) organizes health care-related activities in rural areas.

How do you help grantees?

How do you support rural communities?

We study how policy affects rural communities. 

We advise the HHS Secretary on health-related issues in these communities, such as:

  • How Medicare and Medicaid affect access to care
  • The condition of rural hospitals
  • How available physicians and other health professionals are

How do you enhance health care in rural communities?

We design our grants and programs to build health-care capacity at the local and state levels.

Our grants provide funds to:

  • 50 State Offices of Rural Health
  • Rural hospitals through the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Grant (Flex)

Our community-based programs:

  • Help strengthen rural health care networks
  • Help improve emergency medical services
  • Give training on how to use automatic external defibrillators

We also manage the Black Lung Clinics grant program and the Radiation Exposure Screening and Education grant program.

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