[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 189 (Tuesday, September 29, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Page 61016]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-21514]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Notice To Announce Supplemental Award To Support Training and 
Technical Assistance To Address Clinical Workforce Development

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department 
of Health and Human Services.

ACTION: Announcing supplemental award to support training and technical 
assistance to address clinical workforce development.

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SUMMARY: HRSA provided supplemental funding to Community Health Center, 
Inc. (CHCI), a currently-funded National Training and Technical 
Assistance Partner (NTTAP) award recipient. CHCI will expand training 
and technical assistance (T/TA) to health centers and HRSA-funded State 
and Regional Primary Care Associations (PCAs) to support implementation 
of a tool developed for health centers to assess and improve their 
readiness to engage in health professional training programs and 
address national health care workforce shortages.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tracey Orloff, Director, HRSA, 
Strategic Partnerships Division, Office of Quality Improvement, at 
[email protected] or (301) 443-3197.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Recipient of the Award: Community Health Center, Inc.
    Amount of Non-Competitive Award: $320,000.
    Period of Supplemental Funding: August 2020 to June 2022.
    CFDA Number: 93.129.
    Authority: Section 330(l) of the Public Health Service Act, 42 
U.S.C. 254b(l).
    Justification: The National Center for Health Workforce Analysis 
estimates a shortage of over 23,000 primary care physician positions by 
2025. Residency programs are needed for health centers to address 
health care workforce shortages that limit their ability to deliver 
comprehensive, culturally competent, high quality primary health care 
services.
    CHCI created the Readiness to Train Assessment Tool 
(RTATTM) for health centers to assess their own readiness to 
engage in health professional training programs and use the results to 
manage their workforce shortages. Supplemental funding is necessary to 
ensure timely implementation of the RTATTM in order to 
complete the data collection, analysis, and results dissemination 
needed for health centers to address critical workforce shortages. As 
the organization that developed the RTATTM, and the only 
NTTAP currently funded to provide enhanced T/TA on clinical workforce 
development to health centers, CHCI has the necessary expertise, 
organizational systems, and structure in place to immediately expand T/
TA efforts in this area.

Thomas J. Engels,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2020-21514 Filed 9-28-20; 8:45 am]
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