Communities of Care Technical Assistance Provider Grant

Communities of Care Technical Assistance Provider Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Iowa Health and Human Services
Amount: Up to US $6,000,000
Last Updated: December 22, 2025

Summary

The Communities of Care Technical Assistance Provider Grant aims to enhance rural Iowa service providers' capabilities by offering expert guidance, assessments, and technical assistance. This initiative, supported by the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services, focuses on evidence-based methods to improve care delivery. Key activities include co-location, cost-sharing agreements, and optimizing patient flows within the Communities of Care Projects, contributing to the broader Iowa Healthy Hometowns Project.

Overview

Purpose The purpose of this Request for Proposal (RFP) # COMPADM26003 is to solicit applications that will enable the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services (referred to as Agency) to select the most qualified applicant to provide rural Iowa service providers with expertise, assessment and evaluation, and technical assistance on evidence-based methods for achieving success in the Communities of Care Projects of Iowa's Rural Health Transformation Grant. Activities in this project include co-location, setting up agreements for cost sharing (both for physical space and staffing/care coordination), strategizing patient flows for optimal care and overseeing compliance and fidelity to evidence-based programming described in Healthy Hometowns. This work implements a portion of the Communities of Care initiative of the Iowa Healthy Hometowns Project, funded through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Rural Health Transformation Program, opportunity #: CMS-RHT-26-001.

Eligibility

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