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Newly Funded TA Guide

Welcome to the BPHC Newly Funded Technical Assistance Guide!

 

Purpose: This site is designed to assist new and existing Health Center Grantees in their efforts to establish and promote an organizational culture that is committed to continuous performance improvement and the delivery of high quality, effective and safe patient care. There are many resources in the Web Guide to help Grantees achieve full implementation and compliance with Health Center program requirements as well as access to many Federal programs and resources intended to benefit and support health center best practices.  The Web Guide contains suggested programmatic practices, printable questions to assist with self assessments, and dozens of links to sample documents, information pages, and policy information. While the Web Guide was built primarily with Newly Funded Health Centers in mind, much of the content may be beneficial to existing grantees as well.  To begin, please click on any of the headers listed below that may be of interest to you.

Web Guide Content and Structure: Below is a listing of Health Center-related topics, covering federal programs of special interest to Health Centers such as 340b drug pricing and the Federal Tort Claims Act, as well as pages for each of the 19 Health Center Program Requirements.

The Web Guide site contains portions of the Health Center Site Visit Guide, adapted for grantee use. The Health Center Site Visit Guide is commonly used by BPHC personnel and consultants to assess grantee compliance with program requirements, Program Information Notices (PINs), Program Assistance Letters (PALs), and the adaptation of highly recommended performance improvement activities.

How to Prepare: Your most recent Section 330 grant application and Notice of  Award (NoA) are the documents that define the Scope of Work you have agreed to carry out as a BPHC grantee. It will be very helpful to have these documents on-hand as you review the Web Guide, especially in answering the questions found throughout the guide. The EHB user guide to New Access Point grantees is also a good reference for helping new and existing grantees navigate the electronic system for official submissions to HRSA.

Regarding Non-Federal Technical Assistance Resources: BPHC’s Technical Assistance contractor, Management Solutions Consulting Group (MSCG) hosts an online Consultant Resource Center that houses many resources cited in the Web Guide. While the Resource Center has many valuable templates and documents, all non-Federal resources cited in the Web Guide are meant to be used only as “sample” documents. They are for use as aids to consultants and grantees, but are not considered official guidance by BPHC.  These documents and the Resource Center were made possible by contract number HHSH232200864001C from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Bureau of Primary Health Care. The contents of such documents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of HRSA.

Regarding Key Questions: Within this resource there are over 30 sets of questions derived from the Health Center Site Visit Guide for each of the 19 Health Center Program Requirements. These questions are commonly used by BPHC personnel and consultants to assess grantee compliance with program requirements and to identify areas for performance improvement activities. Grantees may find it beneficial to work with the questions and/or checklists on their own, or in conjunction with a site visit. Web Guide questions are intended as self-assessment tools. They do not assure complete conformity to program rules. Such assessments are determined through an iterative process with Project Officers, annual continuation applications, performance reports, site visits with specialized consultants, and other programmatic resources.

We hope you find the New Start Web Guide a useful resource tool as we work together to improve the health of the Nation’s underserved communities and vulnerable populations.

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Newly Funded TA Guide (PDF - 64 pages)