The term active grant refers to a grant whose project period end date is greater than the date of this report.
Nationwide, 1,135 health centers operate 8,617 clinics and mobile medical vans, providing affordable primary and preventive care on a sliding fee scale to more than 13 million low-income children and adults.
HRSA’s Health Centers:
- Care for 19,469,467 people*
- Support 131,660 jobs*
Awarded HRSA Grants:
- FY2011**: $3,166,643,709 total funding to 1,474 grantees, through 1,766 grants
- FY2010: $2,629,446,739 total funding to 1,179 grantees, through 1,310 grants
Total Active Grants: $7,509,069,792 to 1,512 grantees, through 2,505 grants
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.
Awarded HRSA Grants:
- FY2011**: $689,563,990 total funding to 1,200 grantees, through 2,161 grants
- FY2010: $1,140,383,004 total funding to 1,364 grantees, through 2,980 grants
Total Active Grants: $1,344,828,297 to 1,297 grantees, through 2,521 grants
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 the Nation 8,234 NHSC clinicians are caring for people who live in areas of the state where health care is hard to find, which are known as Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs).
- 4,308 provide primary medical care
- 1,213 provide dental care
- 2,713 provide mental health care
- 4,329 are working in urban areas,
- 4,206 in rural communities*
- 4,021 health care job vacancies are NHSC-eligible
The lives of mothers, children and families are improved through the State Maternal and Child Health Title V Block Grant and other related grant programs that:
- Reduce infant mortality
- Provide services and support to children with special health care needs
- Build systems of care for people with traumatic brain injury
- Train maternal & child health professionals
Awarded HRSA Grants:
- FY2011**: $1,060,308,203 total funding to 654 grantees, through 1,035 grants
- FY2010: $947,341,268 total funding to 675 grantees, through 1,049 grants
Total Active Grants: $2,101,151,171 to 678 grantees, through 1,223 grants
more than 60 million people live in rural areas in the U.S. – where health care services are scarce. 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
- Fund Radiation Exposure Screening and Education
Awarded HRSA Grants:
- FY2011**: $123,212,992 total funding to 393 grantees, through 513 grants
- FY2010: $203,445,241 total funding to 506 grantees, through 635 grants
Total Active Grants: $450,171,598 to 429 grantees, through 558 grants
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.
Part B provides grants to States that enable them to offer AIDS Drug Assistance Programs, help communities with growing numbers of people living with HIV/AIDS, and conduct initiatives focused on racial and ethnic minorities hard hit by the epidemic.
Awarded HRSA Grants:
- FY2011**: $2,411,773,690 total funding to 622 grantees, through 834 grants
- FY2010: $2,467,373,816 total funding to 641 grantees, through 872 grants
Total Active Grants: $3,879,982,026 to 589 grantees, through 801 grants
The Health Care and Other Facilities Construction Program administers funds that are non-competitive and specifically designated by Congress each year in the annual Department of Health and Human Services appropriation. No other entities are eligible to apply.
Total Active Grants: $25,067,717 to 34 grantees, through 41 grants
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.
Visit FindANetwork.hrsa.gov to use an interactive search tool to find more information about these networks.
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; 27,505 residents in the nation received transplants in 2009
- Match bone marrow donors with recipients
- Maintain cord blood banks
- Make discounted drugs available to 15,971 participating providers through the 340B program
- Compensate individuals harmed by vaccines or measures taken to counter pandemics and other threats
Awarded HRSA Grants:
- FY2011**: $133,702,733 total funding to 74 grantees, through 80 grants
- FY2010: $374,199,220 total funding to 628 grantees, through 675 grants
Total Active Grants: $649,742,116 to 488 grantees, through 598 grants