Who is Eligible for the HCF Program?

Public and not-for-profit healthcare providers are eligible to receive support under the Healthcare Connect Fund (HCF).

The Healthcare Connect Fund program encourages rural and non-rural Healthcare Providers (HCPs) to work together to preserve and advance the development of health care across the country. Rural HCPs can value their connections to non-rural HCPs for a number of reasons, including access to medical specialists. And, primarily rural networks benefit from the inclusion of larger, non-rural HCPs.

WHAT IS HCF’s DEFINITION OF NON-RURAL HCPs?

The Commission’s longstanding definition of “non-rural” HCPs encompasses a wide range of locales, ranging from large cities to small towns surrounded by rural countryside. Even within areas that are primarily rural, HCPs are likely to be located in the most populated areas. Many HCPs that are technically classified as non-rural within the rules in fact are located in relatively sparsely populated areas.

Even those hospitals and clinics that are located in more densely populated towns directly serve rural populations because they are the closest HCP for many patients who do live in the surrounding rural areas. Through broadband technologies such as EHRs and telemedicine, non-rural HCPs can provide significantly improved care to their patients.

Remote Specialist Consultations
Outsourced Diagnostic Analysis
Remote Consultations
Direct-to-Consumer Telemedicine

WHAT IS HCF’s DEFINITION OF CONSORTIUM HCPs?

To ensure that the HCF program support continues to benefit rural as well as non-rural HCPs, the program requires that in each consortium, a majority of HCP sites (over 50 percent) be rural HCPs. It also adopts measures to limit the amount of funding that flows to the largest hospitals in the country, to ensure that funding remains focused on a broad cross section of providers serving smaller communities across America.

Benefits from the flexible consortium-based approach covers the following:

Administrative Cost Savings
Access to Medical Specialist through Telemedicine
Leadership of Consortia
Sources of Technical Expertise
Financial Resources
Efficiency of Network Design
Bulk Buying Capability

WHO ELSE IS ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE HCF SUBSIDIES

Hospitals
Dedicated Emergency Room of a Rural For-Profit Hospitals
Rural Health Clinics
Local Health Department or Agency
Urban Non-Profit Hospitals May Still be Eligible to Apply to the HCF Program as Part of a Consortium.

Community Mental Health Centers
Skilled Nursing Facilities
Community Health Center or Health Center Providing Healthcare to Migrants
Post-Secondary Educational Institution Offering Healthcare Instruction (Teaching Hospitals or Medical Schools)

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The HCF Program encourages a streamlined approach, flexible application allowing a single application cover all HCPs participating within a consortium.

The HCF Program requires competitive bidding, funding commitment and caps knowledge, evaluating expenses and equipment eligibility, invoicing and reporting requirements.

The Healthcare Connect Fund provides flexibility for HCPs to utilize third party internet service providers (ISPs) as well as create broadband networks that best meet HCP needs and that can most readily be put to use for innovative and effective telehealth applications, while ensuring funds are spent responsibly and efficiently.

WHAT ’S INCLUDED

Broadband and other advanced services
Upgrading existing facilities to higher bandwidth
Equipment necessary to create networks of HCPs, as well as equipment necessary to receive broadband services

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