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North Dakota

North Dakota:

$5,277,586 as of 5/22/2013

HRSA Grants awarded in FY2013 through 8 grantees

In FY2012, HRSA awarded $16,858,024 in grants to your State through 14 grantees

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Nationwide:

$2,698,493,666 as of 5/22/2013

HRSA Grants awarded in FY2013 through 1,678 grantees

In FY2012, HRSA awarded $7,573,612,472 in grants to the Nation through 2,654 grantees

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Breakdown of HRSA Fiscal Year 2013 Investments

Primary Care/Health Centers View Chart

(State Total $2,927,336)

Nationwide, 1,200 health center grantees operate more than 9,100 clinics and mobile medical vans, providing affordable primary and preventive care on a sliding fee scale to more than 14 million low-income children and adults.1

Currently this State contains:

  • 14 health center sites
  • 4 health center grantees

Awarded HRSA Grants:

  • FY2013**: $2,927,336 total funding, to 4 grantees, through 4 grants
  • FY2012: $4,253,478 total funding, to 4 grantees, through 4 grants

Total Active Grants: $10,073,203 to 5 grantees, through 5 grants

National Health Service Corps View Chart

(State Total $214,424)

The National Health Service Corps (NHSC) is a network of primary medical, dental and behavioral health care professionals and sites that serve the most medically underserved regions of the country. To support their service, NHSC clinicians receive financial support in the form of loan repayment and scholarships, as well as educational, training and networking opportunities.

Currently in this State 53 clinicians are caring for people who live in areas where health care is hard to find, which are known as Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs).1

  • 24 provide primary medical care
  • 4 provide dental care
  • 25 provide mental health care
  • 17 are working in urban areas
  • 37 are working in rural communities †
  • 14 health care job vacancies are NHSC-eligible

Awards to NHSC Loan Repayors:

  • FY2013**: $214,424
  • FY2012: $1,434,587

Awards to NHSC Scholars:

  • FY2012: $288,212

Health Professions Workforce View Chart

Health professions training programs increase access to health care through the development, distribution and retention of a diverse, culturally competent health workforce that can adapt to the population’s changing health care needs and provide the highest quality of care for all. Health professions programs support health professions schools and training programs in medicine, nursing, dentistry and public health. Grant recipients are health professions school and training programs.

Awarded HRSA Grants:

  • FY2012: $3,526,609 total funding, to 5 grantees, through 13 grants

Total Active Grants: $8,791,247 to 5 grantees, through 14 grants

Rural HealthView Chart

More than 60 million people live in rural areas in the U.S. – where health care services are limited. To monitor and improve rural health care, HRSA rural health programs fund community health pilots and demonstrations in rural communities, supports the State Offices of Rural Health in partnership with the State, expand the use of telehealth, support small rural hospitals, fund Black Lung clinics, and fund Radiation Exposure Screening and Education.

Awarded HRSA Grants:

  • FY2012: $4,061,518 total funding, to 4 grantees, through 9 grants

Total Active Grants: $11,492,570 to 4 grantees, through 10 grants

Ryan White HIV/AIDS ProgramView Chart

(State Total $240,745)

Targeting resources to an array of programs at the State and local levels where they are most needed, the Ryan White HIV/AIDS program, through Part A, B, C, D and F Grants, each year provides medical and support services to more than a half million people who otherwise would be unable to afford care.

Detailed state-level information is available from the HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB).

Awarded HRSA Grants:

  • FY2013**: $240,745 total funding, to 1 grantee, through 1 grant
  • FY2012: $755,423 total funding, to 1 grantee, through 2 grants

Total Active Grants: $315,069 to 1 grantee, through 2 grants

Maternal Child HealthView Chart

(State Total $2,017,720)

The lives of mothers, children and families are improved through grants via the State Maternal and Child Health Title V Block Grant to the States, Home Visiting Formula Grants and through Special Projects of Regional and National significance. The grants provide funding for a variety of programs including services and support to Children with Special Health Care Needs, systems for people with Traumatic Brain Injury, Autism Research, improvement of Emergency Medical Services Systems capacity for treatment of children, Newborn Screening, Family to Family Health Information Centers, Sickle Cell projects, and the Healthy Start Program.

Awarded HRSA Grants:

  • FY2013**: $2,017,720 total funding, to 4 grantees, through 6 grants
  • FY2012: $3,878,244 total funding, to 5 grantees, through 9 grants

Total Active Grants: $6,917,621 to 5 grantees, through 10 grants

 

Healthcare SystemsView Chart

Grant programs promote organ donation and poison control centers and help States expand access to affordable health care coverage. Other programs that improve State and local health care include the national systems that:

  • Allocate donated organs for transplantation; 60 residents in Region VIII received transplants in 2009
  • Match bone marrow donors with recipients
  • Maintain cord blood banks
  • Make discounted drugs available to 58 participating providers in North Dakota through the 340B program
  • Compensate individuals harmed by vaccines or measures taken to counter pandemics and other threats

Total Active Grants: $2,009,982 to 2 grantees, through 2 grants

Health Information Technology


Health IT grants improve the quality of health care safety nets and improve efficiency. With technology like electronic health records, providers have access to accurate and complete information about a patient's health, and can better coordinate care.

  • In North Dakota, the Community HealthCare Association of the Dakotas, Inc./ Community HealthCare Association, Inc., located in Bismarck provides technical assistance.

Visit FindANetwork.hrsa.gov to use an interactive search tool to find more information about these networks.

Shortage Designation

HRSA designates Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs), which are designated based on requests that demonstrate these areas meet the criteria for having too few health professionals to meet the needs of the population. HRSA also designates Medically Underserved Areas (MUAs) and Medically Underserved Populations (MUPs); areas in which there is a shortage of personal health services or include groups of persons who face economic, cultural or linguistic barriers to health care.

HPSAs, MUAs and MUPs are used to determine eligibility for a number of government programs.2

Currently in this State there are:

  • 55 Medically Underserved Areas
  • 1 Medically Underserved Population

Current State HPSAs:

  • 81 primary medical care
  • 34 dental
  • 50 mental health

**Fiscal year-to-date funding            † Some NHSC clinicians may serve in both urban areas and rural communities

1 Some clinicians and grantees may serve in multiple geographic areas.    |    2 Some HPSAs, MUAs, and MUPs may cross geographic boundaries.

The term active grant refers to a grant whose project period end date occurs after the date of this report.

The Health Resource and Services Administration (HRSA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, improves health and achieves health equity through access to quality services, a skilled health workforce and innovative programs. Note: Not all HRSA programs and funding are represented on this page.

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