Affordable Care Act (ACA) Primary Care Residency Expansion Program

 

The Primary Care Residency Expansion program is a five-year initiative to increase the number of physicians trained in family medicine, general internal medicine, and general pediatrics residency programs. Grantees are primary care residency programs that commit to increasing their number of training positions by one to four new post-graduate year one positions for five consecutive years. Awards facilitate this expansion by providing $80,000 per expanded position per year.

Deleted 04/02/2020 (Archived.) 93.510 Agency: Department of Health and Human Services
Office: Health Resources and Services Administration Project Grants Not Applicable. Public Health Service Act, Title VII, Section 747, as amended by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148); and the Public Health Prevention Act Section 4002, Conference Report, H. Rept. 111-366, Division D (referencing S. Rept. 111-66), accompanying the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010, Public Law 111-117. Eligible applicants include public or nonprofit private hospitals, schools of medicine or osteopathic medicine or a public or private nonprofit entity of which the Secretary has determined is capable of carrying out such grants. Applicants may request support for only one residency program (discipline). Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Government and Native American Organizations may apply if they are otherwise eligible. Accredited primary care residency training programs in family medicine, general internal medicine, and general pediatrics.

Project participants (residents) must be U.S. Citizens, non-citizen nationals, or foreign nationals who possess visas permitting permanent residence in the United States. Individuals on temporary or student visas are not eligible. Applicants should review the individual HRSA funding opportunity announcement issued under this CFDA program for any required proof or certifications that must be submitted with an application package. 2 CFR 200, Subpart E - Cost Principles applies to this program. Preapplication coordination is not applicable. Environmental impact information is not required for this program. This program is excluded from coverage under E.O. 12372. This program is excluded from coverage under 2 CFR 200, Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards. HRSA requires all applicants to apply electronically through Grants.gov.

All eligible, qualified applications will be forwarded to an objective review committee. Based on the advice of the objective review committee, the HRSA program official with delegated authority is responsible for final selection and funding decisions. Notification is made in writing by a Notice of Award.
Notification of award is made in writing (electronic) through a Notice of Award. Contact the headquarters or regional office, as appropriate, for application deadlines. From 120 to 180 days. Not Applicable. Not Applicable. Procedures for assessing the technical merit of grant applications have been instituted to provide an objective review of applications and to assist the applicant in understanding the standards against which each application will be judged. Critical indicators have been developed for each review criterion to assist the applicant in presenting pertinent information related to that criterion and to provide the reviewer with a standard for evaluation. Competing applications are reviewed by nonfederal reviewers for technical merit recommendations. See the most recent Funding Opportunity Announcement for detailed selection criteria. Awards may only be used to fund an accredited family medicine, general internal medicine, or general pediatric residency program. Applicants may request support for only one residency program (discipline).

Approved uses of Primary Care Residency Expansion grant funds are resident salary including fringe benefits and indirect costs, training expenses, and resident physician travel. Personnel, staffing, consultant cost, equipment, supplies, subcontracts and other items are strictly prohibited under this grant award.

Restricted Uses: Indirect costs under training awards to organizations other than State, local or American Indian tribal governments will be budgeted and reimbursed at 8 percent of modified total direct costs rather than on the basis of a negotiated rate agreement, and are not subject to upward or downward adjustment. The recipient will be required to submit semi-annual performance and annual progress reports. Cash reports are not applicable. A Federal Financial Report (SF-425) is required according to the schedule in HRSA’s Application Guide. A final report is due within 90 days after the project period ends. If applicable, the recipient must submit a Tangible Personal Property Report (SF-428) and any related forms within 90 days after the project period ends. New awards (“Type 1”) issued under this funding opportunity announcement are subject to the reporting requirements of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (FFATA) of 2006 (Pub. L. 109–282), as amended by section 6202 of Public Law 110–252, and implemented by 2 CFR Part 170. Grant and cooperative agreement recipients must report information for each first-tier subaward of $25,000 or more in federal funds and executive total compensation for the recipient’s and subrecipient’s five most highly compensated executives as outlined in Appendix A to 2 CFR Part 170 (The FFATA details are available online at http://www.hrsa.gov/grants/ffata.html). Competing continuation recipients, etc. may be subject to this requirement and will be so notified in the Notice of Award. Expenditure reports are not applicable. Performance monitoring is not applicable. In accordance with the provisions of 2 CFR 200, Subpart F - Audit Requirements, non-Federal entities that expend financial assistance of $750,000 or more in Federal awards will have a single or a program-specific audit conducted for that year. Non-Federal entities that expend less than $750,000 a year in Federal awards are exempt from Federal audit requirements for that year, except as noted in 2 CFR 200.503. Grantees are required to maintain grant accounting records three years after the date they submit the Federal Financial Report (FFR). If any litigation, claim, negotiation, audit or other action involving the award has been started before the expiration of the three year period, the records shall be retained until completion of the action and resolution of all issues which arise from it, or until the end of the regular three year period, whichever is later. This program has no statutory formula.
This program has no matching requirements.
This program has MOE requirements, see funding agency for further details. The recipient must agree to maintain non-federal funding for grant activities at a level which is not less than expenditures for such activities during the fiscal year prior to receiving the award. Awards are funded for five (5) years of support. See the following for information on how assistance is awarded/released: Grantees draw down funds, as necessary, from the Payment Management System (PMS). PMS is the centralized web based payment system for HHS awards. See Regional Agency Offices. Anthony Anyanwu, Project Officer, Medical Training and Geriatrics Branch, Division of Medicine and Dentistry, Bureau of Health Workforce 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 12C-06, Rockville, Maryland 20857 Email: aanyanwu@hrsa.gov Phone: (301) 443-8437 Fax: (301) 443-8437 http://www.hrsa.gov 75-0350-0-1-550. (Project Grants) FY 14 $0; FY 15 est $0; and FY 16 est $0 - This program was fully funded with Public Health and Prevention Fund (PHPF) money – budget and project periods were 9/30-2010-9/29/2015. . Total award amounts range from $960,000 to $3,840,000 per grantee.
The average total award for the five year project period is $1,440,000. All administrative and audit requirements and the cost principles that govern Federal monies associated with this activity will be subject to the Uniform Guidance 2 CFR 200 as codified by HHS at 45 CFR 75.

HRSA awards are also subject to the requirements of the HHS Grants Policy Statement (HHS GPS) that are applicable based on recipient type and purpose of award. The HHS GPS is available at http://www.hrsa.gov/grants. Not Applicable.