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: Geriatric Education Centers Program
3. CFDA #: 93.969
4. Program Objectives: This grant program is designed to strengthen multidisciplinary training of health professionals in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease and other health concerns of the elderly.
5. Titles and Descriptions of at least Three Funded Grantees:
Pacific Island Geriatric Education Center – Applicant Institution is the University of Hawaii. Supports a GEC that provides aGeriatric and Family Consultation Service; Nursing Home Training; a Mental Health and Aging evening course, Community-Academic Parternerships for geriatric program development; a Parkinson’s/GEC Information, Referral and Education Center; Increased Training in Medically Underserved Communities; Dissemination of Hartford Best Nursing Practices Curriculum in Care for Older Adults; Ho’Ola Na O Kupuna ‘Ihi Project (Social Work); Ethnogeriatrics Curriculum, Asian and Pacific Islander section; Ethics and Elder Law Project; Alzheimer’s Disease GEC/Aloha Chapter Alzheimer’s Association training project; Geriatrics Telemedicine Project; Nursing Home QI Report Project; Kids Into Health Careers Project; and Formal Collaboration with Other GEC’s for conferences and projects.
Western Reserve Geriatric Education Center – Applicant Institution is the Case Western Reserve University. Supports a GEC that is designing, implementing, and disseminating geriatric training, new clinical experiences and training resources to: optimize physical and mental health from prevention to palliation; build safe and supportive commuinities for vulneralbe older Ohioans; address issues of diversity in caring for underserved older adults across the continuum of care; encourage students to enter health careers in geriatrics; and increase the number of professional and paraprofessional trainees with expanded ethnogheriatrics training and/or clinical experience in settings that care for minority and underserved elders.
Texas Consortium of Geriatric Education Centers – Applicant Institution is Baylor College of Medicine. Supports a GEC that partners with nine rural and urban community-academic partnerships that address: interdisciplinary professional development and continuous quality improvement; ethnogeriatrics; managed care; case management; continuing education; and long-term care.
AUTHORITY
6. Authorizing Statute(s): Section 753(a) of the Public Health Service Act
7. Regulatory/Administrative Requirements: Projects must address one or more of the statutory purposes listed below:
8. Mandatory Statutory Changes Needed to Operate PSFA as a Demonstration: Currently open only to institutions of higher education as listed in #10.
APPLICANTS, BENEFICIARIES and FORMULAS
9. Type of Funding: Grants
10. Eligible Applicants: Grants may be made to accredited health professions schools as defined by section 799B(1) PHS Act, including schools of medicine, schools of dentistry, schools of osteopathic medicine, schools of pharmacy, schools of optometry, schools of podiatric medicine, schools of veterinary medicine, schools of public health, and schools of chiropractic. Grants may also be made to accredited graduate programs in clinical psychology, clinical social work, health administration, and behavioral health and mental health practice. Programs for the training of physician assistants as defined by section 799B(3), or schools of allied health as defined in section 799B(4), or schools of nursing as defined by section 801(2) may also apply.
Applicants must be located in the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, or the Republic of Palau, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Federated States of Micronesia.
11. Allotment Formulas, Etc.: None
12. Applicant Provisions/Allotments in Law for Indians: None
13. Eligible Beneficiaries: None:
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: $8,194,435.
17. Amount and Percent of Total Funding Awarded to Indians: None
18. 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 - Grant cycle FY 2001
-- restrictions on use of funds - no restrictions
-- reporting requirements - Uniform Progress Report
-- audit requirements - None.
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: Joan Weiss, PhD, RN, CRNP
Chief, Geriatrics
and Rural Health Branch
(301) 443-0430
jweiss@hrsa.gov.