Primary Care Training and Enhancement Program | HRSA 16 042

Opportunity Information: Apply for HRSA 16 042

The Primary Care Training and Enhancement (PCTE) Program (HRSA-16-042) is a discretionary grant opportunity from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) aimed at strengthening the nations primary care workforce. The core goal is to improve how future primary care clinicians, educators, and researchers are trained, with a strong emphasis on making training more relevant to the realities of modern health care delivery. In practical terms, the program is meant to help organizations build or improve training models that produce primary care professionals who are ready to work in high-performing, team-based, data-driven clinical environments.

For FY 2016, the central requirement is that proposed projects focus on preparing trainees to operate in transformed health care systems, with particular attention to improving the clinical training experience itself. HRSA points applicants toward health system transformation concepts that align with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) view of what modernized delivery looks like. This includes training that prepares providers to work across the full care continuum in integrated or virtually integrated delivery models, coordinate care across multiple settings and provider types, and actively engage patients in their care while tracking measurable improvements in patient experience. It also includes building competency in using health information technology to improve quality, ensuring clinicians practice at the top of their license and board certification, integrating population health measures into routine care delivery, and using data to guide and refine clinical and operational processes. Applications that connect health care delivery transformation with efforts to address social determinants of health are explicitly encouraged, signaling that HRSA is looking for projects that combine clinical excellence with upstream, community-informed approaches to improving outcomes.

Eligible lead applicants are generally accredited public or nonprofit private institutions that can support primary care training at scale. Examples listed include accredited public or nonprofit private hospitals, schools of allopathic medicine, schools of osteopathic medicine, and academically affiliated physician assistant (PA) training programs. In addition, other public or nonprofit private entities may be eligible if the Secretary determines they are capable of carrying out the grant. The opportunity also notes that faith-based and community-based organizations, as well as Tribes and tribal organizations, may apply as long as they otherwise meet eligibility requirements. A key operational constraint is that all training activities supported through the grant must be delivered by an accredited entity; for new programs, provisional accreditation is acceptable. Applicants are required to submit accreditation documentation for the lead applicant training program as part of the application package (referenced as Attachment 7 in the announcement).

The competition includes an important restriction related to prior funding: organizations that competed for and successfully received an FY 2015 PCTE award are not eligible to apply as the lead applicant in FY 2016. HRSA frames this as a way to avoid duplication, manage organizational capacity concerns, and promote broader geographic distribution of awards. However, FY 2015 awardees are still allowed to participate as collaborators on another organizations application, which keeps experienced programs involved without concentrating awards in the same institutions.

From an administrative standpoint, the funding opportunity is identified under CFDA 93.884, with an original closing date of January 28, 2016, and an anticipated 37 awards. The listing shows an award ceiling of 0, which typically indicates the ceiling was not specified in the summary record and would need to be confirmed in the full funding announcement. Overall, the program is designed to invest in training approaches that make primary care education more hands-on, more systems-oriented, more technology-enabled, and more accountable to measurable quality and patient experience outcomes, while also encouraging applicants to incorporate strategies that address social and environmental drivers of health alongside clinical transformation.

• The Health Resources and Services Administration in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Primary Care Training and Enhancement Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.884.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2015-10-14.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2016-01-28. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 37 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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