Opportunity Information: Apply for HRSA 21 029
The Rapid Response Rural Data Analysis and Issue Specific Rural Research Studies opportunity (HRSA 21-029) is a discretionary, cooperative agreement offered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), under CFDA 93.155. It is designed to give rural health stakeholders fast, practical access to high-quality data analysis and short, policy-relevant research so they can better understand how current or proposed policies and regulations affect rural health care financing, access to care, and service delivery. The program exists because many rural organizations and providers need timely, specialized analyses that typically require expensive data sources, secure storage, advanced analytic tools, and staff with deep experience working with complex datasets such as those maintained by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), along with data from other federal and state agencies or private entities.
The core expectation for the award recipient is to function as a responsive analytic partner for rural America by coordinating closely with HHS agencies and rural stakeholders. On the federal side, the recipient must collaborate with relevant HHS partners to compile, manage, and analyze requested data quickly and accurately. On the stakeholder side, the recipient is expected to work directly with rural health community members and organizations to identify which datasets are needed and what questions are most urgent. This collaboration is central to the program because most rural groups do not have the capacity to purchase or house large datasets, do not have specialized analytic staff to clean and link files, and often lack the technical infrastructure to run advanced statistical work on short notice.
A major deliverable is a staffed rapid response data analysis team that can turn around answers very quickly. The program anticipates that the recipient will be able to respond within one to two business days to roughly one to two data analysis requests per month coming from rural health stakeholders. These rapid analyses are meant to support immediate policy needs, such as when a new payment rule is proposed, a regulation changes, or a time-sensitive rural health issue emerges and decision-makers need credible numbers quickly. Past examples of this kind of rapid response work include calculating annual costs and revenues reported by Rural Health Clinics (RHCs), Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs), and other rural hospitals; examining how CAH patient days break down between swing-bed and acute care admissions; mapping travel routes and distances between rural hospitals nationwide; and building detailed tracking of rural hospital closures, openings, and mergers over long time spans (for example, 2005 to 2020). The common thread across these examples is that they depend on specialized datasets and analytic capabilities that would be out of reach for most rural providers to assemble and analyze quickly on their own.
In addition to producing original rapid analyses, the recipient is also expected to provide ongoing technical assistance that helps stakeholders use and benefit from existing research products. The program estimates about five to seven technical assistance requests per month. This support is focused on helping rural stakeholders locate, interpret, and apply prior analyses and products developed under the cooperative agreement, reducing duplication and making sure already-developed evidence gets used in real decisions. In practice, that can mean pointing stakeholders to the right tables, methods, or prior reports, explaining how findings relate to a specific rural setting, or advising on how to frame questions that can be answered with available data sources.
Beyond rapid turnaround work, the program requires the recipient to conduct deeper, short-term issue-specific rural health services research studies. These are more involved than one- or two-day requests and typically require building analytic files, creating measures, and conducting more extensive statistical and descriptive analysis. The expectation is two studies per year, each completed within three to six months, reflecting the reality that rural policy priorities can shift quickly and stakeholders may need focused research fast rather than multi-year studies. Past examples include analyses of wage index differences and how rural and urban hospital characteristics compare, as well as studies describing communities served by rural hospitals considered at high risk of financial distress. Examples of prior funded studies can be found through the Rural Health Research Gateway at www.ruralhealthresearch.org, which also signals that the work is intended to be publicly useful and easy for stakeholders to access.
The intended users of the program’s outputs are the people and organizations making decisions that affect rural health care on the ground and at the policy level. This includes rural health care providers and systems, state partners, professional associations, State Offices of Rural Health (SORHs), State Rural Health Associations (SRHAs), and the National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services. The overall goal is to strengthen rural health decision-making by delivering timely, credible analyses and short, targeted research that can guide policy discussions, payment and regulatory decisions, and strategies to improve access and quality in rural communities.
Administratively, the opportunity was posted with a creation date of November 20, 2020, and an original closing date of January 29, 2021. HRSA anticipated making one award, with an award ceiling of $500,000. Eligibility is listed broadly as “Others,” with additional eligibility details referenced in the full notice. The cooperative agreement structure also indicates HRSA expects substantial involvement and collaboration during the project, consistent with the program’s emphasis on rapid, coordinated responses to emerging rural health policy needs.Apply for HRSA 21 029
- The Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Rapid Response Rural Data Analysis and Issue Specific Rural Research Studies" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.155.
- This funding opportunity was created on Nov 20, 2020.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jan 29, 2021. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $500,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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