[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 241 (Thursday, December 17, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66979-66980]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-30010]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Health Center Program

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice of noncompetitive replacement awards to Regional Health 
Care Affiliates.

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SUMMARY: The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) will 
be transferring Health Center Program (section 330 of the Public Health 
Service Act) New Access Point (NAP) and Increased Demand for Service 
(IDS) funds originally awarded to Trover Health System to Regional 
Health Care Affiliates to ensure the provision of critical primary 
health care services to underserved populations in Webster and McLean 
Counties, Kentucky.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Former Grantee of Record: Trover Health System.
    Original Period of Grant Support: March 1, 2009 to February 28, 
2011 (NAP) and March 27, 2009 to March 26, 2011 (IDS).
    Replacement Awardee: Regional Health Care Affiliates.
    Amount of Replacement Awards: $1,300,000 (NAP) and $101,000 (IDS).
    Period of Replacement Awards: The period of support for the 
replacement awards is March 1, 2009, to February 28, 2011 (NAP) and 
March 27, 2009, to March 26, 2009 (IDS).


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    Authority:  Section 330 of the Public Health Service Act, 42 
U.S.C. 245b.

    CFDA Number: 93.703.

Justification for the Exception to Competition

    Under the original grant applications approved by HRSA, Regional 
Health Care Affiliates (RHCA) was identified as the provider of health 
care services on behalf of the Trover Health System, while Trover 
Health System was to serve in an administrative capacity for the 
grants. After the awards were issued, Trover Health System and RHCA 
notified HRSA that RHCA's organizational structure had changed to 
enable it to carry out both administrative and programmatic 
requirements. The two parties requested that full responsibility for 
the grants be transferred from Trover Health System to RHCA. RHCA 
provided documentation that it meets Section 330 statutory and 
regulatory requirements as well as applicable grant management 
requirements.
    Regional Health Care Affiliates will directly initiate primary 
health care services in Webster and McLean Counties to the more than 
5,250 low income, underserved and uninsured individuals in the original 
service area, Webster and McLean Counties, KY, as had been proposed in 
funded grant applications.
    Regional Health Care Affiliates can provide primary health care 
services immediately, is located in the same geographical area where 
the Trover Health System's primary health care services have been 
provided, and will be able to provide continuity of care to patients of 
the former grantee.
    This underserved target population has an immediate need for vital 
primary health care services and would be negatively impacted by any 
delay caused by a competition. As a result, in order to ensure that 
critical primary health care services are available to the original 
target population in a timely manner, these replacement awards will not 
be competed.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Marquita Cullom-Stott via e-mail at 
[email protected] or 301-594-4300.

    Dated: December 10, 2009.
Mary K. Wakefield,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. E9-30010 Filed 12-16-09; 8:45 am]
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