[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 5 (Monday, January 9, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2396-2397]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-404]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Program Announcement and Proposed Review Criteria for Grants for
Geriatric Education Centers for Fiscal Year 1995
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) announces
the acceptance of applications for fiscal year (FY) 1995, Grants for
Geriatric Education Centers under the authority of section 777(a) of
the Public Health Service Act, as amended by the Health Professions
Education Extension Amendments of 1992, Pub. L. 102-408, dated October
13, 1992. Comments are invited on the proposed review criteria.
Approximately $6,000,000 will be available in FY 1995 for this
program. Total continuation support recommended is $4,100,000. It is
anticipated that $1,900,000 will be available to support 13 competing
awards averaging $145,000.
Applicants should apply for direct costs of no more than $100,000
(for single institutions) and no more than $150,000 (for consortia of
three of more institutions) for the first year of funding.
Eligibility
Section 777(a) of the PHS Act authorizes the award of grants to
accredited health professions schools as defined by section 799(1), or
programs for the training of physician assistants as defined by section
799(3), or schools of allied health as defined in section 799(4), or
schools of nursing as defined by section 853(2).
Applicants must be located in the United States, the Commonwealth
of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the
Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Republic of Palau, the
Republic of the Marshall Islands, or the Federated States of
Micronesia.
To receive support, applicants must meet the requirements of
regulations as set forth in 42 CFR part 57, subpart 00. The initial
period of Federal support should not exceed 3 years. Projects may
recompete for an additional 3 years.
Purpose
Grants may be awarded to support the development of collaborative
arrangements involving several health professions schools and health
care facilities. These arrangements, called Geriatric Education Centers
(GECs), are established to facilitate training of health professional
faculty, students, and practitioners in the diagnosis, treatment, and
prevention of disease, disability, and other health problems of the
aged. Health professionals include allopathic physicians, osteopathic
physicians, dentists, optometrists, podiatrists, pharmacists, nurses,
nurse practitioners, physician assistants, chiropractors, clinical
psychologists, health administrators, and allied health professionals.
Projects supported under these grants must offer training involving
four or more health professions, one of which must be allopathic or
osteopathic medicine. Projects must address one or more of the
statutory purposes listed below:
(a) Improve the training of health professionals in geriatrics;
(b) Develop and disseminate curricula relating to the treatment of
the health problems of elderly individuals;
(c) Expand and strengthen instruction in methods of such treatment;
(d) Support the training and retraining of faculty to provide such
instruction;
(e) Support continuing education of health professionals and allied
health professionals who provide such treatment; and
(f) Establish new affiliations with nursing homes, chronic and
acute disease hospitals, ambulatory care centers, and senior centers in
order to provide students with clinical training in geriatric medicine.
Grant supported projects may be designed to accomplish the
statutory purposes in a variety of ways, emphasizing interdisciplinary/
multidisciplinary, and discipline-specific approaches to the
development of geriatric education resources. For example:
Health professions schools within a single academic health
center, or a consortium of several educational institutions, may share
their educational resources and expertise through a Geriatric Education
Center to extend a broad range of multidisciplinary educational
services outward to other institutions, faculty, facilities and
practitioners within a geographic area defined by the applicant.
Educational institutions that have limited geriatric
education resources and which traditionally have had linkages to a
geographic area where substantial geriatric education needs exist, may
seek to establish a Geriatric Education Center. Such a center could be
designed to enhance and expand the capability of collaborating
professional schools to provide geriatric education resources in the
geographic area in need.
Projects may support the development of Geriatric
Education Centers designed to focus on multidisciplinary geriatric
education emphasizing high priority services and high risk groups among
the elderly, minority aging, or other special concerns.
National Health Objectives for the Year 2000
The Public Health Service (PHS) urges applicants to submit work
plans that address specific objectives of Healthy People 2000.
Potential applicants may obtain a copy of Healthy People 2000 (Full
Report; Stock No. 017-001-00474-0) or Healthy People 2000 (Summary
Report; Stock No. 017-001-00473-1) through the Superintendent of
Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402-9325
(Telephone 202-783-3238).
Education and Service Linkage
As part of its long-range planning, HRSA will be targeting its
efforts to strengthening linkages between U.S. Public Health Service
supported education programs and programs which provide comprehensive
primary care services to the underserved.
Smoke-Free Workplace
The Public Health Service strongly encourages all grant recipients
to provide a smoke-free workplace and promote the non-use of all
tobacco products. This is consistent with the PHS mission to protect
and advance the physical and mental health of the American people.
Established and Proposed Review Criteria
The following review criteria have been established in 42 CFR part
57, subpart OO and will be considered in the review of applications:
(1) The degree to which the proposed project adequately provides
for the project requirements;
(2) The extent to which the rationale and specific objectives of
the project are based upon a needs assessment of the status of
geriatrics training in the institutions to be assisted and/or the
geographic area to be served;
(3) The ability of the project to achieve the project objectives
within the proposed geographic area;
(4) The adequacy of educational facilities and clinical training
settings to accomplish objectives; [[Page 2397]]
(5) The adequacy of organizational arrangements involving
professional schools and other organizations necessary to carry out the
project;
(6) The adequacy of the qualifications and experience in geriatrics
of the project director, staff and faculty;
(7) The administrative and managerial ability of the applicant to
carry out the proposed project in a cost-effective manner, and;
(8) The potential of the project to continue on a self-sustaining
basis.
In addition, the following review criteria are proposed:
(9) If applicable, the extent to which there is evidence that the
institutions jointly have planned and jointly will conduct the proposed
consortial activities.
(10) The potential of the project to recruit and/or retain minority
faculty members and trainees for participation in long term and/or
short term training experiences.
Application Requests
Application materials will be sent only to FY 1994 applicants and
to those entities making a request. Requests for grant application
materials and questions regarding grants policy and business management
issues should be directed to:
Ms. Jacquelyn Whitaker (D-31), Grants Management Specialist, Bureau of
Health Professions, Health Resources and Services Administration,
Parklawn Building, Room 8C-26, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland
20857, telephone: (301) 443-6857.
Completed applications should be returned to the Grants Management
Branch at the above address.
If additional programmatic information is needed, please contact:
Ms. Pat Dols, Geriatric Initiatives Branch, Division of Associated,
Dental, and Public Health Professions, Bureau of Health Professions,
Health Resources and Services Administration, Parklawn Building, Room
8-103, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857, telephone: (301)
443-6887.
The standard application form PHS 6025-1, HRSA Competing Training
Grant Application, General Instructions and supplement for this program
have been approved by the Office of Management and Budget under the
Paperwork Reduction Act. The OMB clearance number is 0915-0060.
The deadline date for receipt of applications is March 3, 1995.
Applications will be considered to be ``on time'' if they are either:
(1) Received on or before the established deadline date, or
(2) Sent on or before the established deadline date and received in
time for orderly processing. (Applicants should request a legibly dated
U.S. Postal Service postmark or obtain a legibly dated receipt from a
commercial carrier or U.S. Postal Service. Private metered postmarks
shall not be acceptable as proof of timely mailing.)
Late applications not accepted for processing will be returned to
the applicant.
This program, Grants for Geriatric Education Centers, is listed at
93.969 in the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance. It is not subject
to the provisions of Executive Order 12372, Intergovernmental Review of
Federal Programs (as implemented through 45 CFR part 100). This program
is not subject to the Public Health System Reporting Requirements.
Dated: December 30, 1994.
James A. Walsh,
Acting Administrator.
[FR Doc. 95-404 Filed 1-6-95; 8:45 am]
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