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New School Health Center Provisions in Health Care Reform

UDPATE: Federal Funds for SBHC Equipment, Construction, and Renovation – Upcoming HRSA Grant Program

A provision in the health care reform legislation provided SBHCs with $200 million in federal funding for facilities and equipment. These funds will be distributed on a competitive basis nationally – there is no amount set aside for individual states. The Health Resources and Services Administration ( HRSA) issued a funding announcement (HRSA-10-276) for $50 million for equipment in June 2010 which they then retracted in July in response to the high volume of questions they received concerning the application criteria, the cap for multi-site school-based health centers, and the limited application development time.

What We Expect

* Please note -- the following information is not official and is based on NASBHC's conversations with HRSA -- details could change.

• HRSA will issue the new grant guidance in mid-to-late September

• The grant will include construction, equipment, and renovation

• The total funds available nationally will be $100 million

• You will have 60 days to complete the application after the grant guidance is issued

• Grant recipients will have money in-hand by early 2011

• New SBHC programs that are not yet operational will be eligible to apply for the funding

• Questions that remain from the original grant RFP will be addressed by the time the new RFP is issued

• CSHC will send out an alert when new grant program guidance and the new application are available

NASBHC Survey on Technical Assistance Needs

NASBHC is gathering information to advocate for SBHCs and to best meet the field's technical assistance needs regarding this grant opportunity. We ask that all interested sites fill out this survey by August 10, 2010. It should only take 5-10 minutes.

We recommend you continue preparing for this application by:

• Registering at grants.gov.

• Getting a DUNS number.

• Researching equipment at the NASBHC website (click on the “Resources” tab) and at Welch Allyn website.

• Building relationships with appropriate authorities around school construction. (Note: This will vary from community to community.)

• Reviewing your organizational capitalization threshold policies and preparing your proposal narrative.

Eligible applicant agencies will still likely be:

Hospital
Public health department
Community health center
Non-profit health care agency
Local education agency (20 USCS §7801)
A program administered by the Indian Health Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs, or operated by an Indian tribe or a tribal organization

Eligible SBHCs must provide, or plan to provide, both medical and mental health services.

These services do not need to be delivered by the same agency. For instance, a community clinic or school district delivering medical services in a SBHC will be able to apply for this grant, providing they can demonstrate (through a formal agreement) that another agency is delivering mental health services on campus.

Moveable equipment will likely still include:

• Medical equipment (e.g., Medical exam tables, dental chairs, x-ray equipment, nebulizers, AEDs, autoclaves, freezers, refractometers, audiometers, tympanometers, ophthalmoscopes, EKG machines, crash carts, stadiometers)

• Office equipment (e.g., Computers, modular workstations, desks, chairs, file cabinets, photocopiers, printers/scanners/faxes, waiting room chairs/furniture)

• Equipment to support an electronic health record system (e.g., hardware, servers, licenses)

• Telehealth equipment (e.g., Video cameras, software, TVs, specialized diagnostic equipment)

• Trailers or modular units set up on portable chassis (toward overall cost of mobile medical or dental vans, or equipment for vans, providing both medical and mental health services are provided on campus or van)

Contact Samantha Blackburn, CSHC's Field and Technical Assistance Director, with questions. She can be reached at 510-868-8066 or sblackburn@schoolhealthcenters.org.