[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 198 (Friday, October 12, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62243-62244]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-25195]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Rural Health Network Development Program
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), HHS.
ACTION: Notice of Non-competitive Replacement Award to Siloam Springs
Regional Health Cooperative, Inc.
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SUMMARY: The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is
issuing a non-competitive replacement award under the Rural Health
Network Development Program to the Siloam Springs Regional Health
Cooperative, Inc. This non-competitive replacement award will continue
activities to improve the treatment and prevention of chronic disease,
increase provider knowledge and effective use of health information
technology and perform network development activities to ensure the
sustainability and viability of a rural health network in order to
serve rural, medically underserved residents in rural, northwest
Arkansas and northeast Oklahoma.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Former Grantee of Record: ARcare.
Original Period of Grant Support: May 1, 2011, to April 30, 2014.
Replacement Awardee: Siloam Springs Regional Health Cooperative,
Inc.
Amount of Replacement Award: $179,748.
Period of Replacement Award: The period of support for this award
is October 1, 2012, to April 30, 2014.
Authority: Section 330A(f) of the Public Health Service Act (42
U.S.C. 254(c)(f), as amended.
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 93.912.
Justification for the Exception to Competition: The primary goals
of the project funded through the Rural Health Network Development
Grant Program are to improve the capacity of network members to treat
and prevent chronic disease, increase provider knowledge and effective
use of health information technology, and strengthen network
sustainability. The current grantee, ARcare, was originally awarded the
Rural Health Network Development Grant D06RH21666 on May 1, 2011, to
serve as the grantee of record representing the rural health network
serving counties in northwest Arkansas and northeast Oklahoma. Since
May 1, 2011, the Siloam Springs Regional Health Cooperative, Inc.
(SSRHC), an organization composed of the participating network members,
was primarily responsible for administering the program activities of
the Rural Health Network Development Project. SSRHC has now obtained
501(c)3 status; and ARcare notified HRSA that, while they will remain
involved in the project, they would like to relinquish their
responsibilities as grantee of record to SSRHC to ensure efficient
administration of the award and strengthen the Network's future
viability and growth. SSRHC has demonstrated a history of successfully
managing and achieving project goals and now has the organizational
structure to support the fiscal management responsibilities of the
grant. This replacement award will
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enable SSRHC to expand access to, coordinate, and improve the quality
of essential health care services in the medically underserved counties
of northwest Arkansas and northeast Oklahoma.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Leticia Manning, Public Health
Analyst, Office of Rural Health Policy, Health Resources and Services
Administration, Room 5A-55, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland
20857; (301) 443-8335; email [email protected].
Dated: October 4, 2012.
Mary K. Wakefield,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2012-25195 Filed 10-11-12; 8:45 am]
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