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Decisions were based upon project objectives,
demonstrated need and the availability of funding. For many
years no new money has been added to improve access to primary
care and these general instructions appeared sufficient. Level
funding and an established policy of sustaining support for
existing grantees resulted in no new application instructions
added and new awards being granted.
In 2006, one million dollars ($1,000,000) was added to the
KDHE budget for primary care clinics and prescription drug
assistance program funding ($750,000) was reauthorized for a
second year, for a total of $3,270,840 to local clinics and health centers.
In the 2007 funding cycle, more than thirty potentially eligible
non-profit and volunteer clinics and health centers are in
operation or under development across the state. The application
deadline was postponed twice to accommodate interest from new
clinics. KDHE received twenty-five grant applications seeking
$5,106,942 in state general funds. As a result, state grants to
clinics became competitive. Eleven new applicants submitted
proposals to be considered along with renewal applications from
the fifteen existing grantees.
A Review Committee was appointed and considered a number of
factors in evaluating and comparing grant applications,
including:
Needs of Community/Target Population
Clinic or Health Center’s Proposed Response to Fulfill
Needs
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Expanded clinical staff, new
sited, extended hours
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Additional clinical services
including dental expansions
Clinic or Health Center Utilization
and Productivity Trends
Clinic or Health Center Patient Characteristics
Geographic Distribution
Twenty-four of the twenty-five applicants were considered
eligible and were awarded primary care clinic funding for their
proposals. Twenty-one of these applicants also requested and
received grants to operate prescription drug assistance programs
(PDAP).
Applicants for primary health care project grants are required
to provide local support which meets the local match requirement
of one dollar for each one dollar of funding awarded through
this program. Each program varies greatly in terms of mission,
service area, range of services, client eligibility, and local
project goals and objectives. Clinics frequently have project
partners who contribute non-cash donations of space or health
professionals and others who volunteer time.
KDHE
Community-Based Primary Care Clinic Grant Program Grant Awards
State Fiscal Year 2008
State Role:
The KDHE role is to:
- help local leaders to assess
community health risks and locate gaps in service using
a community planning and development process
- administer the state's activities
related to the designation of health professional
shortage areas for recruitment of health care providers
to underserved areas
- provide information, training, and
limited financial assistance to communities implementing
health care access programs for comprehensive primary
health care
- administer the state's
Charitable Health Provider Program to enable
physicians and other licensed professionals to donate
services
- administer the state's
J-1 visa waiver program for placement of foreign
physicians in medically underserved areas
Who Benefits?
The program serves medically underserved and
low-income Kansans. An estimated 250,000 to 375,000 Kansans (10%
to 13.7% of the population) are believed to lack a regular
source of basic health care and may be identified by a range of
characteristics:
- members of low-income, "working
poor" families
- uninsured or under-insured persons
who lack the means to pay for care themselves
- persons eligible for HealthWave,
Medicaid or other medical assistance programs operated
by the
Division of Health Policy and Finance who are unable
to find a participating provider
- residents of remote rural counties
with too few health professionals
- minority populations with
financial, cultural and language barriers
90% of current clinic users have incomes at or below
150% of the
federal poverty level (FPL)
- 73% had incomes at or below 100%
FPL
State
Fiscal Year Annual Report: New Statistical Reporting Mechanism
The internet-based data reporting system is
designed to meet the reporting expectations placed on clinics
and their partners, the Kansas Department of Health and
Environment (KDHE) Primary Care Office and the Kansas
Association for the Medically Underserved (KAMU). The new system
is on the web at:
http://www.datacounts.net/kamu/
The reporting system and Users Reporting
Manual have been adopted by the Primary Care Office within the
Kansas Department of Health and Environment for use by Primary
Care Clinics and Health Centers funded through the Community
Based Primary Care Clinic Program.
Click here to log on and begin reporting through the new
Statistical Reporting System
Reports from state-funded clinics are due annually by August 15.
The data requested will better facilitate
aggregate data comparisons. The due date will facilitate
collection and assembly of calendar year data or, if necessary,
the most recent 12 month program period (e.g. local or state
fiscal year).
Click here to view/print
the Reporting Manual
Payments to grantees in the Community Based
Primary Care Clinic Program will be made in accordance with the
contract agreements following the receipt of the Quarterly
Financial Form (Affidavit of Expenditures) except that the
payment of 12.5% to be made on or about November 15 may not be
made unless the annual data is submitted by the August 15, 2006
deadline established for the annual web-based reporting system.
Click here to view/print
the Quarterly Financial Form (Affidavit of Expenditures)
Program Contact Person:
Click
here to contact the OLRH staff member responsible for this
program. |