Program Funding

• Cincinnati, Detroit selected as final health IT pilot communities under innovative HHS Recovery Act Beacon Program
• HHS Awards $20 Million to 46 Regional Extension Centers
• HHS Awards $9 Million to Train Physicians
• Additional Beacon Community Funding Opportunity (Health IT)
• American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Public Health Reporting by Hospital Laboratories Cooperative Agreement Program
• American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Funding Announcement for Enhancing the Interoperability of Electronic Health Records (EHR) and Immunization Information Systems (IIS)
• Equipment to Enhance Training for Health Professionals-Predoctoral Training in General, Pediatric, and Public Health Dentistry
• Equipment to Enhance Training for Health Professionals-Post-doctoral Training in General, Pediatric and Public Health Dentistry
• Equipment to Enhance Training for Health Professionals-Faculty Development Training in General, Pediatric, and Public Health Dentistry and Dental Hygiene
• Predoctoral Training in General, Pediatric, and Public Health Dentistry and Dental Hygiene
• Faculty Development in General, Pediatric, and Public Health Dentistry and Dental Hygiene
• Postdoctoral Training in General, Pediatric, and Public Health Dentistry and Dental Hygiene
• HHS Awards $144 Million in Recovery Act Funds to Institutions of Higher Education and Research to Address Critical Needs for the Widespread Adoption and Meaningful Use of Health Information Technology
• HHS Announces Additional $162 Million in Recovery Act Investment to Advance Widespread Meaningful Use of Health IT
• Equipment to Enhance Training for Health Professionals - Nursing Workforce Diversity
• Equipment to Enhance Training for Health Professionals - Advanced Education Nursing Program
• Equipment to Enhance Training for Health Professionals - Nursing Education, Practice and Retention Program
• Equipment to Enhance Training for Health Professionals - Centers of Excellence Program
• Equipment to Enhance Training for Health Professionals - Graduate Psychology Education
• Equipment to Enhance Training for Health Professionals - Residency Training in Dental Public Health
• Equipment to Enhance Training for Health Professionals - Geriatric Education Centers Program
• Equipment to Enhance Training for Health Professionals - Preventive Medicine Residency Program
• Equipment to Enhance Training for Health Professionals - Public Health Training Centers Program
• Equipment to Enhance Training for Health Professionals - Health Careers Opportunity Program
• Equipment to Enhance Training for Health Professionals - Grants to States to Support Oral Health Workforce Activities
• Equipment to Enhance Training for Health Professionals - Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry Academic Administrative Units
• Equipment to Enhance Training for Health Professionals - Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry - Physician Faculty Development
• Equipment to Enhance Training for Health Professionals - Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry - Predoctoral Training
• Equipment to Enhance Training for Health Professionals - Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry- Physician Assistant Training
• Equipment to Enhance Training for Health Professionals - Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry - Residency Training in Primary Care
• Equipment to Enhance Training for Health Professionals - Health Careers Opportunity Program
• Equipment to Enhance Training for Health Professionals - Preventive Medicine Residency Program
• Equipment to Enhance Training for Health Professionals - Residency Training in Dental Public Health
• Equipment to Enhance Training for Health Professionals - Centers of Excellence Program
• Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry: Administrative Academic Units
• Recovery Act 2009 Limited Competition: Comparative Effectiveness Delivery System Demonstration Grants
• Recovery Act 2009 Limited Competition: Enhanced State Data for Analysis and Tracking of Comparative Effectiveness Impact: Improved Clinical Content and Race-Ethnicity Data
• Limited Competition: Comparative Effectiveness Delivery System Evaluation Grants
• Recovery Act 2009 Limited Competition: Accelerating Implementation of Comparative Effectiveness Findings on Clinical and Delivery System Interventions by Leveraging AHRQ Networks
• Sebelius, Solis Announce Nearly $1 Billion Recovery Act Investment in Advancing Use of Health IT, Training Workers for Health Jobs of the Future
• Sebelius Announces Release of Recovery Act Funding to Improve Care in Nation’s Ambulatory Surgical Centers
• Secretary Sebelius Releases $27.8 Million in Recovery Act Funds to Expand the Use of Health Information Technology
• Modification to Previous Grants Notice - Recovery Act 2009 Limited Competition: Innovative Adaptation and Dissemination of AHRQ Comparative Effectiveness Research Products (iADAPT) (R18)
• Modification to Previous Grants Notice - AHRQ Clinical and Health Outcomes Initiative in Comparative Effectiveness (CHOICE) Grants (R01)
• State Medicaid Director Letter on the Health Information Technology (HIT) provisions in ARRA
• Modification to Previous Grants Notice - State Grants to Promote Health Information Technology Planning and Implementation Projects
• HITECH priority grant programs - State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program and Health Information Technology Extension Program
• HITECH Breach Notification Interim Final Rule
• Prevention and reduction of healthcare-associated infections (HAI)
• HHS Announces $13.4 Million in Financial Assistance to Support Nurses
• Nurse Faculty Loan Program Recovery Act Awards
• First 100 Nursing Education Loan Repayment Program Recovery Act Awards: Where the Nurses Will Serve
• The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services FAQ’s website for ARRA Health IT
• National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants funded by ARRA for each state
• Grants Notice - State Primary Care Offices
• Grants Notice - State Primary Care Offices
• Recovery Act Grants to States for Loan Repayment - Health Professional Shortage Areas
• Comparative Effectiveness Research Funding
• Health Information Technology component of ARRA
• National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Job Vacancies by State and Category (Medical, Dental, and Mental Health)
• Protection of Human Health by Immunology and Vaccines (NIH)
• $500 million has been allocated to the Indian Health Services (HIS)

• Updated ARRA Medicaid Funding Table
• HHS Publishes ARRA FMAPs for Second Quarter of FY 2010 (PDF)
• HHS Publishes ARRA Adjustments to FMAPs (PDF)
• Updated state-by-state Medicaid grant funding information
• HHS updated Medicaid funding chart to reflect FY 2009 grant award adjustments and FY 2010 awards through October 25, 2009
• Updated funding information on the Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital Program (DSH)
• CMS additional guidance on FMAP and MOE requirements (PDF)
• Review of the Calculation of Additional Medicaid Funding Awarded Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (PDF)
• Recovery Act to Fund 12 State Efforts to Improve Care in Ambulatory Surgical Centers - Nationwide effort to reduce health care associated infections in stand-alone or same-day surgical centers
• Prompt payment implementation guide (PDF)
• Letter providing policy guidance to States on section 5001 of ARRA as it applies to prompt pay provisions (PDF)
• Implementation of Section 5001 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) for adjustments to the third quarter of Fiscal Year 2009 Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) Rates for Federal Matching Shares for Medicaid and Foster Care and Adoption Assistance (PDF)
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services FAQ’s (PDF)
• Arizona Recovery Act (ARRA) Funding
• CMS Letter to State Medicaid Directors Summarizing the Sections of ARRA that Impact Medicaid and CHIP (PDF)
• CMS Attachment to State Medicaid Directors Summarizing the Sections of ARRA that Impact Medicaid and CHIP (PDF)
• Review of the Calculations of Temporary Increases in Federal Medical Assistance Percentages under ARRA (PDF)
• April 24, 2009 - Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services updated Qs and As (PDF)
• Guidance to states on compliance with the requirements for the enhanced Medicaid FMAP provisions (PDF)
• HHS Announces FY 2009 Disproportionate Share Hospitals (DSH ) Allotments, including ARRA funds

• Modification to Previous Grants Notice
• Supplemental for Innovative Projects to Improve Reimbursement in Public Health Department Clinics
• Supplemental Funding for Improving Data Quality and Enhancing Assessment at Immunization Information Systems (IIS) Sentinel Sites
• Supplemental Funding for Reaching More Children and Adults Department of Health and Human Services
• Supplemental Funding for Innovative Projects to Develop "Best Practices" for Monitoring School Vaccination Coverage and Exemption Rates
• Section 317 immunization grant allocations
• Vice President Biden's announcement (PDF)
• State by state ARRA funding for child care programs

• Supplemental Funding to Support Enhanced Evaluation within ARRA Funded Obesity Communities
• Secretary Sebelius Awards Funding for Chronic Disease Self-Management Programs for Older Americans
• HHS Awards $372 Million in Prevention and Wellness Grants to 44 Communities Around the Nation
• Impact of Decision-Support Systems on the Dissemination and Adoption of Imaging-Related Comparative Effectiveness Findings
• Prevention Research Centers Comparative Effectiveness Research Program U48
• More Than $119 Million Awarded to States and Territories
Part of the Department’s Prevention and Wellness Initiative, Funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

• Prevention and Wellness Initiative Final Award Amounts for State and Territory Component (PDF)
• Recovery Act 2009 Limited Competition: Prevention Research Centers Comparative Effectiveness Research Program U48
• Scalable Distributed Research Networks for Comparative Effectiveness Research
• Framework Programs for Global Health Signature Innovations Initiative
• Enhanced Registries for Quality Improvement and Comparative Effectiveness Research
• Recovery Act Limited Competition: Comparative Effectiveness Research on Upper Endoscopy in Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease, Eradication Methods for Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Dementia Detection and Management Strategies (RC4)
• Recovery Act Limited Competition: Methodology Development in Comparative Effectiveness Research (RC4)
• Recovery Act Limited Competition: NIH Directors Opportunity for Research in Five Thematic Areas (RC4)
• ARRAOS: Recovery Act Limited Competition: Behavioral Economics for Nudging the Implementation of Comparative Effectiveness Research: Pilot Research (RC4)
• ARRAOS: Recovery Act Limited Competition: Behavioral Economics for Nudging the Implementation of Comparative Effectiveness Research: Clinical Trials (RC4)
• $120 Million for States Made Available as Part of Recovery Act Community Prevention and Wellness Initiative
• Modification to Previous Grants Notice - State Supplemental Funding for Healthy Communities, Tobacco Control. Diabetes Prevention and Control. and Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
• HHS Secretary Sebelius Announces Cornerstone Funding of the $650 Million Recovery Act Community Prevention and Wellness Initiative
• Research facilities, scientific research and purchase of scientific equipment

• HHS Awards $1 Billion in National Institutes of Health ARRA Awards
• Recovery Act Funding for Community Health Centers in Arizona