Closed · HRSA-25-007 · CFDA 93.155 · Discretionary
Rural Residency Planning and Development (RRPD) program
Federal grant opportunity posted by Health Resources and Services Administration, cataloged on Grants.gov.
- up to $750K
- Award range
- Closed
- Status
- April 10, 2025
- Close date
- 15
- Expected awards
The verdict
Rural Residency Planning and Development (RRPD) program is a closed discretionary listing from Health Resources and Services Administration that offered Up to $750,000 across 15 expected awards. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number.
- up to $750K
- award range
- Closed
- application status
- 15
- expected awards
- 93.155
- CFDA program
Opportunity snapshot. This Grants.gov announcement - Rural Residency Planning and Development (RRPD) program - is cataloged under number HRSA-25-007 and tied to CFDA assistance listing 93.155, posted by Health Resources and Services Administration. Grants.gov currently shows the opportunity as closed, first posted on January 10, 2025 and last updated on March 7, 2025. The funding category is Discretionary, delivered as a grant.
Award economics. The award range on file is Up to $750,000. The agency has projected $11.3 million in total estimated funding for this announcement. It expects to issue 15 awards. If the agency funds the expected 15 awards from the $11.3 million estimated pool, the average award works out to roughly $750,000. Cost sharing is not required, so applicants do not need to commit matching funds to be competitive on this opportunity. Federal award ranges are often upper bounds; actual allocations reflect program appropriations, the strength of the applicant pool, and the evaluation committee's scoring.
Deadline and action path. This opportunity closed on April 10, 2025. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number, so monitoring the parent program page is the most reliable way to catch re-announcements. Every Grants.gov submission requires an active SAM.gov registration and a Unique Entity ID. Review the Eligibility section below carefully, federal eligibility categories (nonprofit, state or local government, tribal, individual, educational institution, small business) have distinct registration and reporting requirements. Pre-application outreach to the listed agency contact is permitted and often welcomed, it helps clarify scope and scoring priorities. Before acting on the deadline or award figures above, verify them directly on the official Grants.gov listing, amendments can change dates and amounts after this page was last refreshed.
Award Range
Up to $750,000
Close Date
April 10, 2025
Posted
January 10, 2025
Est. Total Funding
$11,250,000
Expected Awards
15
Instrument
Grant
Description
The purpose of the Rural Residency Planning and Development (RRPD) program is to improve and expand access to health care in rural areas by developing new sustainable rural residency programs, including rural track programs (RTPs). These residency programs must achieve accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Newly created rural residency programs will increase the number of future physicians training in rural areas, and ultimately the number of physicians practicing in rural areas with the goal of addressing the physician workforce shortages in rural communities. The RRPD program provides start-up funding to create new rural residency programs in qualifying medical specialties that will be sustainable long-term through viable and stable funding mechanisms, such as Medicare, Medicaid, and other public or private funding sources. Qualifying medical specialties are family medicine, internal medicine, preventive medicine, psychiatry, general surgery, and obstetrics and gynecology. For this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO), rural residency programs: •Are accredited physician residency programs. •Train residents in clinical training sites that are physically located in a rural area as defined by HRSA’s Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) [1] for greater than 50 percent of their total time in residency. •Focus on producing physicians who will practice in rural communities. The purpose of the RRPD Program is to fund the development of new rural residency programs in qualifying medical specialties. For this funding opportunity, we consider “new” programs to include both programs seeking accreditation for the first time and existing programs that apply for a permanent complement increase to train additional residents at new rural training site(s) as part of an RTP. To be responsive to the program purpose and be considered for funding, you must propose a new rural residency program in a qualifying medical specialty. For this funding opportunity, we do not consider the following to be new programs: •Programs that have received accreditation or a permanent complement increase for their proposed rural residency program before the application due date. •Programs seeking to increase resident full-time equivalents at an existing RTP site without adding a new rural training site.
Eligibility
Grants.gov lists this opportunity under eligibility category codes 07, 11, 20, 25. These codes correspond to applicant types (state/local government, tribal organization, nonprofit, educational institution, individual, small business, etc.) defined in Grants.gov's own eligibility reference. See the current Grants.gov eligibility categories or check the official listing below for this opportunity's exact eligibility statement.
Official Listing on Grants.gov
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Agency Contact
Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration ruralresidency@hrsa.gov
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