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Rural Provider Access and Affordability Stimulus Grant Program

Overview

Senate Bill 22-200 created the Rural Provider Access and Affordability Stimulus Grant Program which will award $10 million to qualified rural hospitals. The purpose of the grant payments is to improve health care affordability and access to care in rural Colorado. Grant payments will be allocated into two categories, affordability-related projects and care-related projects.

The Rural Provider Access and Affordability Stimulus Grant Program is administered by the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing with advice and recommendation of the Rural Provider Access and Affordability Stimulus Advisory Committee.


Subrecipient Resources

Grant Awardees

Applicant

County

Access or Affordability

Project Name

Estimated Award

Arkansas Valley Regional Medical Center

Otero

Access

Southeastern Colorado Rural

$500,000

Colorado Canyons Hospital and Medical Center

Mesa

Affordability

Pharmacy Equipment

$550,000

Delta County Memorial Hospital

Delta

Affordability

New Electronic Health Record

$650,000

Estes Park Health

Larimer

Access

Replacement Beds

$150,000

Gunnison Valley Health

Gunnison

Affordability

Upgrade and Integrate EHR

$650,000

Haxtun Hospital District

Phillips

Access

Access to Care through Equipment

$200,000

Keefe Memorial Health Service District

Cheyenne

Affordability

Digital Records

$350,000

Kit Carson County Health Service District

Kit Carson

Access

Bed Replacement Project

$100,000

Kit Carson County Health Service District

Kit Carson

Access

Cardiac Rehabilitation Program

$200,000

Lincoln Community Hospital

Lincoln

Affordability

Community Paramedicine Program

$350,000

Melissa Memorial Hospital

Phillips

Access

Care Coordination and Enhanced Sustainability

$650,000

Middle Park Medical Center

Grand

Access

Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

$550,000

Mt. San Rafael Hospital

Las Animas

Access

Rural Health Clinic Remodel and Reorganization

$650,000

Pagosa Springs Medical Center

Archuleta

Affordability

Oxygen Generation Building and IT Upgrade

$400,000

Rangely District Hospital

Rio Blanco

Affordability

Neurology Department

$650,000

Rio Grande Hospital

Rio Grande

Access

Housing

$600,000

San Luis Valley Health Conejos County Hospital

Conejos

Access

Expanded BH Coordination

$400,000

San Luis Valley Health Regional Medical Center

Alamosa

Affordability

MRI Modernization

$650,000

Spanish Peaks Regional Health Center

Huerfano

Access

Advanced Mammography Machine

$650,000

St. Vincent General Hospital District

Lake

Access

Spine Surgery Equipment

$400,000

The Memorial Hospital

Moffat

Affordability

Radiology Department Upgrade

$300,000

Weisbrod Memorial County Hospital

Kiowa

Access

Rural Clinic Sheridan

$100,000

Wray Community District Hospital

Yuma

Access

Radiology Capital Project

$650,000

Yuma District Hospital

Yuma

Affordability

Ultrasound Plus Project

$250,000

Total Awarded

$10,600,000

Award Recommendation Framework

Award application framework:

  • Financial needs of the hospital

  • The proposed project’s 

    • Impact on affordability and access

    • Likelihood of completion and the timeline’s reasonableness

    • Sustainability

    • Regional need for the project

    • Consideration of diversity, equity, and inclusion

    • If applicable, the partner engagement, support, and collaboration

  • The quality of the application

The committee also considered the regional dispersion of available funding in selecting award recommendations.


Qualification and Application

Qualified rural hospitals applied for funding through an application process developed by the Department in consultation with the Advisory Committee.

To apply, qualified rural hospitals submitted an application using the files below. For the applicant’s convenience, the application is split up into logical sections, and a checklist is provided. The submission included multiple documents: the filled out standardized form, narrative responses on the applicant’s letterhead, supporting documents, and a budget worksheet.

Applications were due on May 8, 2023.

Rural Provider Access and Affordability Stimulus Grant Program Workshop

The Department held a workshop that provided an overview of the application process for the Rural Provider Access and Affordability Stimulus Grant Program. The application is split up into logical sections, and a checklist is provided. The submission will include multiple documents: the filled out standardized form, narrative responses on the applicant’s letterhead, supporting documents, and a budget worksheet. Please see the recording and slides from the workshop below.

Rules

The  Rural Provider Access and Affordability Advisory Committee met from September 7th through November 18th and made recommendations on grant eligibility, use of funds, criteria for determining grant awards and amounts, grant procedures, timelines, and reporting requirements.

Rules for administration of the grant program were approved at the December 9, 2022 meeting of the Medical Services Board. These rules were unanimously supported by the advisory committee.

Reference

Senate Bill 22-200 is the statute establishing the grant program, signed June 1, 2022.

Contact Us

Please email us with any questions at HCPF_RuralGrantProgram@state.co.us.