Tribal Self-Governance Study
Description of Program, Service, Function or Activity (PSFA)

INVENTORY

1. Agency Name: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

2. Program Name: Faculty Training Projects in Geriatric Medicine, Dentistry, and Behavioral and Mental Health

3. CFDA #: 93.156

4. Program Objectives: The purpose of this grant program is to provide support, including fellowships, for geriatric training projects to train physicians, dentists and behavioral and mental health professionals who plan to teach geriatric medicine, geriatric dentistry, or geriatric behavioral and mental health. Programs supported by these grants emphasize the principles of primary care as demonstrated through continuity of care and ambulatory, preventive and psychosocial aspects of the practice of geriatric medicine, geriatric dentistry, and geriatric behavioral and mental health.

5. Titles and Descriptions of at least Three Funded Grantees:

Geriatric Fellowship Program
Division of Geriatrics
University of North Texas Health Science Center

Faculty Training Program in Geriatric Medicine, Dentistry, and Behavioral and Mental Health Professions
Department of Medicine
Division of Geriatrics
University of California at Los Angeles

Geriatric Medicine, Dental, and Psychiatry Fellowship Program
Geriatric Services
School of Medicine
Boston University

AUTHORITY

6. Authorizing Statute(s): Section 753(b), Title VII, of the Public Health Service Act

7. Regulatory/Administrative Requirements: Each project shall:

1. be staffed by full time teaching physicians who have experience or training in geriatric medicine or geriatric behavioral or mental health;
2. be staffed or enter into an agreement with an institution staffed by full-time or part-time teaching dentists who have experience or training in geriatric dentistry;
3. be staffed, or enter into an agreement with an institution staffed, by full-time or part-time teaching behavioral mental health professionals who have experience or training in geriatric behavioral or mental health;
4. be based in a graduate medical education program in internal medicine or family medicine or in a department of geriatrics or behavioral or mental health;
5. provide training in geriatrics and exposure to the physical and mental disabilities of elderly individuals through a variety of service rotations, such as geriatric consultation services, acute care services, dental services, geriatric behavioral or mental health units, day and home care programs, rehabilitation services, extended care facilities, geriatric ambulatory care and comprehensive evaluation units, and community care programs for elderly mentall y retarded individuals, and
6. provide training in geriatrics through one or both of the training options described in the section on Eligible Projects

8. Mandatory Statutory Changes Needed to Operate PSFA as a Demonstration: Eligibility requirements.

APPLICANTS, BENEFICIARIES and FORMULAS

9. Type of Funding: Grants

10. Eligible Applicants: To be eligible for a grant, the applicant must be:

1. located in the United States, the Common wealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Republic of Palau, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, or the Federated States of Micronesia; and
2. an accredited public or private nonprofit school of medicine or school of osteopathic medicine; or
3. an accredited public or private nonprofit teaching hospital or graduate medical education program.

11. Allotment Formulas, Etc.: None

12. Applicant Provisions/Allotments in Law for Indians: None

13. Eligible Beneficiaries: Health professionals.

14. Beneficiary Provisions/Allotments in Law for Indians: None

15. Amount and Percent of Total that is Mandatory for Indians: None

FINANCIAL

16. Total FY 2000 Funding: $1,650,000.

27. Amount and Percent of Total Funding Awarded to Indians: None.

38. For Awards to Tribes: Number, Range and Average Amounts: None.

19. Total FY Projected 2001 Funding, including amount and percent of total funding expected to be awarded to Indians: Not yet determined/None

OTHER

20. -- how long assistance would be funded - varies by grant

-- restrictions on use of funds - see #7 above

-- reporting requirements - progress reports

-- audit requirements -

CONTACTS

21. DHHS Workgroup Contact: Karen Garthright
Office of Minority Health, HRSA
5600 Fishers Lane, Rm. 10-49
Rockville, MD 20857
301-443-9424
Kgarthright@hrsa.gov

22. HHS Program Contact: Kathleen Bond, Program Officer
(301) 443-8681
kbond@hrsa.gov

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