2012-9231. Non-Competitive Program Expansion Supplement To Revise, Update, and Disseminate Educational Curricula Regarding Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias

AGENCY:

Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS.

ACTION:

Notice of a Non-Competitive Program Expansion Supplement To Revise, Update, and Disseminate Educational Curricula Regarding Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias.

SUMMARY:

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) will be issuing a non-competitive program expansion supplement to 45 Geriatric Education Centers (GEC) Program grantees to revise, update, and disseminate educational curricula regarding Alzheimer's Disease and related dementias (AD). Approximately $2,000,000 will be available in Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 and $4,000,000 in FY 2013 from the Prevention and Public Health Fund, created by the Affordable Care Act. The GEC grantees have the capacity, capability, expertise, experience, and infrastructure to expeditiously, effectively, and efficiently implement the AD initiative within their existing educational programming. The programmatic supplements will allow the Bureau of Health Professions to consolidate resources and provide enhanced technical assistance, grant funds, grant monitoring and oversight to the AD initiative within currently existing grants.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Grantees of record and intended award amounts are:

Grantee name	Grant No.	State	2012 Projected awards	2012 Supplement amount
University of Alabama at Birmingham	UB4HP19045	Alabama	$216,000.00	$42,222
Arizona Board of Regents	UB4HP19047	Arizona	399,771.00	42,222
University of Arkansas	UB4HP19048	Arkansas	421,310.00	42,222
Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University	UB4HP19049	California	399,772.00	42,222
The Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles	UB4HP19202	California	426,192.00	42,222
The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco	UB4HP19046	California	424,203.00	42,222
NOVA Southeastern University	UB4HP19211	Florida	431,907.00	42,222
University of Miami	UB4HP19066	Florida	427,185.00	42,222
Emory University	UB4HP19215	Georgia	419,472.00	42,222
University of Hawaii	UB4HP19065	Hawaii	427,920.00	42,222
University of Iowa	UB4HP19054	Iowa	426,650.00	42,222
University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute	UB4HP19192	Kansas	429,472.00	42,222
University of Kentucky Research Foundation	UB4HP19051	Kentucky	409,280.00	42,222
University of New England	UB4HP19207	Maine	216,000.00	42,222
Johns Hopkins University	UB4HP19193	Maryland	426,800.00	42,222
Regents of the University of Minnesota	UB4HP19196	Minnesota	424,811.00	42,222
Saint Louis University	UB4HP19060	Missouri	427,879.00	42,222
The University of Montana	UB4HP19056	Montana	429,725.00	42,222
Board of Regents, NSHE, on behalf of University of Nevada—Reno	UB4HP19205	Nevada	418,751.00	42,222
Trustees of Dartmouth College	UB4HP19206	New Hampshire	425,443.00	42,222
UMDNJ—School of Osteopathic Medicine	UB4HP19059	New Jersey	423,459.00	42,222
Mount Sinai School of Medicine	UB4HP19194	New York	421,698.00	42,222
University of Rochester	UB4HP19204	New York	415,498.00	42,222
Duke University	UB4HP19203	North Carolina	215,713.00	42,222
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	UB4HP19053	North Carolina	420,000.00	42,222
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center	UB4HP19197	Oklahoma	416,609.00	42,222
Oregon Health and Science University	UB4HP19057	Oregon	418,002.00	42,222
Thomas Jefferson University	UB4HP19061	Pennsylvania	417,200.00	42,222
University of Pennsylvania	UB4HP19214	Pennsylvania	427,795.00	42,222
University of Pittsburgh	UB4HP19199	Pennsylvania	416,712.00	42,222
University of Rhode Island	UB4HP19208	Rhode Island	424,589.00	42,222
University of South Carolina	UB4HP19212	South Carolina	422,640.00	42,222
Meharry Medical College	UB4HP19055	Tennessee	418,222.00	42,222
Baylor College of Medicine	UB4HP19052	Texas	414,000.00	42,222
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center	UB4HP19201	Texas	215,216.00	42,222
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	UB4HP19058	Texas	216,000.00	42,222
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio	UB4HP19063	Texas	420,800.00	42,222
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston	UB4HP19213	Texas	432,000.00	42,222
Virginia Commonwealth University	UB4HP19210	Virginia	421,601.00	42,222
University of Washington	UB4HP19195	Washington	216,000.00	42,222
George Washington University	UB4HP19200	Washington, DC	420,738.00	42,222
West Virginia University Research Corp	UB4HP19050	West Virginia	428,800.00	42,222
Marquette University	UB4HP19062	Wisconsin	412,012.00	42,222
University of Wyoming	UB4HP19198	Wyoming	426,751.00	42,222
Total			17,734,743.00	1,899,990

Intended Recipients of the Award: 45 Existing GEC awardees.

Amount of the Awards: $42,222.

Project Period: July 1, 2012 through June 30, 2014.

Authority: Section 753(a) of the Public Health Service Act, as amended by Section 5305 of the Affordable Care Act.

Justification

The programmatic supplements will allow the Bureau of Health Professions to consolidate resources and provide enhanced technical assistance, grant funds, grant monitoring and oversight to the AD initiative within currently existing grants. Providing the additional funding to existing grantees also has benefits for program evaluative purposes since the GEC grantees already have evaluation requirements with which they comply. This programmatic supplement aligns with the current GEC budget period cycle, resulting in administrative savings over a competitive grant making process.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Joan Weiss, Ph.D., RN, CRNP, Health Resources and Services Administration, Division of Public Health and Interdisciplinary Education, 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 9C-05, Rockville, Maryland 20857, or email [e-mail].

Dated: April 11, 2012.

Mary K. Wakefield,

Administrator.