Notice ID: 75R60224R00011
Related Notice: 75R60224R00011
The purpose of this requirement is to be complementary to the THCGME Program supporting the expansion and maintenance of THCGME funded community-based ambulatory residency training programs and subsequently increase the number of physicians and dentists choosing to practice in rural and medically underserved areas.
The proposed contract will support: 1) the eighty-one (81) THCGME grantees (training nearly 1,100 FTEs in 2023) facing accreditation maintenance and renewal challenges; and 2) the THCs from the pool of nearly 1,400 HRSA-funded (non-THCPD) community health centers considering or in the process of developing residency programs. The large number of THCGME and HRSA-funded (non-THCPD) grantees necessitates a technical assistance center that can provide services across the scope of these grantees and the numerous specialties they encompass.
The purpose of this requirement is to be complementary to the THCGME Program supporting the expansion and maintenance of THCGME funded community-based ambulatory residency training programs and subsequently increase the number of physicians and dentists choosing to practice in rural and medically underserved areas. HRSA previously entered into a cooperative agreement to provide a technical assistance center to specifically support the THCPD grantees, but currently there is not a technical assistance center that targets THCGME grantees and their unique needs. The THCGME Technical Assistance Center contract is intended to provide support to the THCGME grantees and address the accreditation challenges experienced by the teaching health centers participating in the THCGME Program. The THCGME TAC will help to ensure that THCGME recipients have access to sources of information and expertise in all areas of residency development and operations. Assistance may be provided in stabilizing and strengthening operations as well as potentially developing additional FTE training slots and/or additional residencies in new specialties within a THCGME institution. Funding a central technical assistance provider to give direct support and facilitate peer learning between the THCGME recipients improves the efficiency of the THCGME Programs and prevents duplicative efforts and burden on the part of the recipients seeking individual support to achieve their program goals.
The period of performance is a base year with two option years.
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