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Service Area Competition (SAC) New, Competing Continuation, and Supplemental Application Technical Assistance

About the Service Area Competition (SAC)

Through the Service Area Competition (SAC), HRSA will award approximately $346,000,000 in funding to an estimated 220 SAC applicants. A SAC application is a request for Federal financial assistance to support comprehensive primary health care services for a competitively announced underserved area or population. All available service areas (see below) are currently served by Health Center Program grantees whose project periods are ending in FY 2013.

Service Area Announcement Table

Searchable Service Area Announcement Table | Printable Service Area Announcement Table (PDF - 1 MB)

Available service areas can be viewed either as a searchable table (a customized list based on selected search criteria) or a printable table (organized by project period start date). 

Both versions of the Service Area Announcement Table provide the following information: project period start date, current grantee’s administrative site location, state, target populations, HRSA announcement number, application deadlines (Grants.gov and EHB), total funding, funding for each population type, service area zip codes, number of patients served in 2011, and a link to the patient origin map. The service area zip codes provided in the table represent the geographic service area as identified by the current grantee. The map provides additional information regarding patient origin of the currently funded service area (i.e., the number and percentage of the current grantee’s patients that come from each zip code tabulation area based on 2011 UDS data). 

For the Searchable Service Area Announcement Table, use the drop-down lists to select a state, city, and/or project period start date for a customized list of available service areas. Only the states and cities with available service areas in FY 2013 are included in the drop-down lists.

Eligible Applicants

Applicants must be public or nonprofit private entities, such as tribal, faith-based, or community-based organizations, that propose to serve a service area and its associated population(s) identified in the Service Area Announcement Table. Eligible applicants include:

• A current Health Center Program grantee whose project period ends on, or after, October 31, 2012 and before October 1, 2013 that seeks to continue serving its current service area.
• A health center not currently funded through the Health Center Program that seeks to serve an entire announced service area.
• A current Health Center Program grantee that seeks to serve an entire announced service area in addition to its current service area.

Program Requirements

An applicant must:

1. Provide services to the entire announced service area.
2. Provide services to the same target population currently being served (i.e., applicants may not propose to serve only a segment of the existing population being served) in an announced service area.
3. Provide the same or comparable comprehensive primary health care services presently being provided.
4. Request an equal or lesser amount of Federal funding than currently received by the Health Center Program grantee in an announced service area.

Program Specific Forms

• Form 1A: General Information Worksheet (Word - 78 KB)
• Form 1C: Document on File (Word - 50 KB)
• Form 2: Staffing Profile (Word - 58 KB)
• Form 3: Income Analysis (Word - 109 KB)
• Form 4: Community Characteristics (Word - 87 KB)
• Form 5A: Services Provided (Word - 122 KB)
• Form 5B: Service Sites (Word - 51 KB)
• Form 5C: Other Activities/Locations (Word - 38 KB)
• Form 6A: Current Board Member Characteristics (Word - 52 KB)
• Form 6B: Request for Waiver of Governance Requirements (Word - 41 KB)
• Form 8: Health Center Agreements (Word - 65 KB)
• Form 9: Need for Assistance Worksheet (Word - 91 KB)
• Form 10: Annual Emergency Preparedness Report (Word - 49 KB)
• Form 12: Organization Contacts (Word - 51 KB)

Performance Measures

• Clinical Performance Measures (Word - 238 KB)
• Financial Performance Measures (Word - 102 KB)

For more information on performance measures, see Health Center Program's Clinical and Financial Performance Measures.