Arra - Equipment To Enhance Training For Health Professionals

 

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) supports the purchase of equipment through a grant program that will enhance infrastructure supporting health professions training programs. The Equipment to Enhance Training for Health Professionals (EETHP) program provides funding to purchase training equipment for health professions training programs. The goals of the program include: (1) investing in the educational infrastructure, through the purchase of equipment, to enhance the quality of health professions education; (2) strengthening the National capacity for health professions education through the purchase of health professions training equipment; and (3) increasing the number of highly skilled health workforce professionals in the United States or its territories through the availability and use of training equipment.

Deleted 03/03/2014 (Archived.) 93.411 Agency: Department of Health and Human Services
Office: Health Resources and Services Administration Project Grants Not Applicable. Public Health Service Act, Title VII, Section 768 (42 U.S.C. 295c), and
the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Pub.L. 111-5, Public Law 111-5. A health professions training program as defined by this program is one of 21 programs authorized under Titles III, VII and VIII of the PHS Act which focus all or in part on the training of health professionals. Refer to the funding opportunity announcement for more specifics. Training programs. Applicants should review the individual HRSA funding opportunity announcement issued under this CFDA program for any required proof or certifications which must be submitted prior to or simultaneous with submission of an application package. OMB Circular No. A-87 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. OMB Circular No. A-102 applies to this program. OMB Circular No. A-110 applies to this program. Applications are generally solicited by a program announcement in www.hrsa.gov/grant. Application information may be downloaded from www.grants.gov. All applications are required to submitted electronically through Grants.gov.

All 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 of award is made in writing by a Notice of Grant Award. Contact the headquarters or regional office, as appropriate, for application deadlines. > 180 Days. Not Applicable. Not Applicable. Criteria for selecting applications are available in the funding opportunity guidance document, in the following broad categories: (1) the extent to which the application describes its needs and links the purchase of the equipment to the enhancements of health professions programs; (2) the extent to which the application describes the proposed goals and objectives and their relationship to the purchase of equipment; (3) the extent to which the applicant describes the expected impact of the equipment on the training program; and (4) the budget justification logically documents how and why each equipment purchase supports the goals and activities of the training program. Applications must request the purchase of equipment that will be used to expand and improve the quality of the training program. The EETHP equipment purchases should enhance a structured clinical learning experience within a health professions training program. Funding to support the operations of the equipment (such as staffing, software, maintenance and supplies) is prohibited under the EETHP program, unless it is part of an equipment purchase package. All projects funded with ARRA funds are subject to special quarterly reporting requirements as outlined in Section 1512 of the Recovery Act. No cash reports are required. A progress report must be submitted annually within the approved project period. Expenditure reports are not applicable. A final progress report and final financial status report must be submitted within 90 days after the end of the project period. In accordance with the provisions of OMB Circular No. A-133 (Revised, June 27, 2003), "Audits of States, Local Governments, and Non-Profit Organizations," nonfederal entities that expend financial assistance of $500,000 or more in Federal awards will have a single or a program-specific audit conducted for that year. Nonfederal entities that expend less than $500,000 a year in Federal awards are exempt from Federal audit requirements for that year, except as noted in Circular No. A-133. Grantees are required to maintain grant accounting records 3 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 3-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 3-year period, whichever is later. Statutory formulas are not applicable to this program.
Matching requirements are not applicable to this program.
MOE requirements are not applicable to this program. Awards will be made in FY 2010 for up to a two-year project period. After Notices of Grant Award are issued, funds are released in accordance with DHHS payment procedures. 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. None. Gail Lipton, Bureau of Health Professions, Health Resources and Services Administration, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 9-05, Rockville, Maryland 20857 Email: glipton@hrsa.gov Phone: (301) 443-6509. Gail Lipton, Bureau of Health Professions, Health Resources and Services Administration, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 9-05, Rockville, Maryland 20857 Email: glipton@hrsa.gov Phone: (301) 443-6509. http://www.hrsa.gov 75-0351-0-1-550. (Project Grants) FY 11 $0; FY 12 est $0; and FY 13 est $0 - All funds awarded in FY10. FY 10 - $5,000 to $300,000. All funds awarded in FY 10. This program is subject to the provisions of 45 CFR Part 92 for State, local and tribal governments and 45 CFR Part 74 for institutions of higher education, hospitals, other nonprofit organizations and commercial organizations. The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), 42 U. S. C. §4321-4370d also applies. HRSA grant awards are also subject to the requirements of the HHS Grants Policy Statement (HHS GPS, found at http://www.hrsa.gov/grants/, that are applicable to the grant based on recipient type and purpose of award. ARRA-funded awards are also subject to the HHS ARRA Standard Terms and Conditions.

HRSA awards are 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.