[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 10 (Friday, January 15, 2010)]
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[FR Doc No: 2010-673]



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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 Award 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) 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: June 1, 2009 to February 28, 
2011.
    Replacement awardee: Regional Health Care Affiliates.
    Amount of Replacement Award: $17,000.
    Period of Replacement Award: The period of support for the 
replacement award is September 1, 2009, to February 28, 2011.

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

    CFDA Number: 93.224.
    Justification For The Exception To Competition: Under the original 
grant application 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 grant. After the award was 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 grant 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 application.
    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, this replacement award will not 
be competed.

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

    Dated: January 11, 2010.
Mary K. Wakefield,
Administrator.
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