Call for Proposals
Open Call for Proposals
The CHRC does not currently have any open Call for Proposals (CFP).
Prior Calls for Proposals
The CHRC has issued seven Calls for Proposals, open to community health resources. These CFPs are linked below with each CFP’s grant focus area(s).
Health Enterprise Zone CFP: The goals of the Health Enterprise Zone Initiative are the following: (1) Reduce health disparities among racial and ethnic minority populations and among geographic areas; (2) Improve health care access and health outcomes in underserved communities; and (3) Reduce health care costs and hospital admissions and re-admissions.
CHRC CFP FY 2012: (1) Comprehensive Women’s Health Services and Reducing Infant Mortality; (2) Dental Care for Low-Income Children; (3) New Access Points and Building Healthcare Infrastructure in Primary Care Settings; (4) Integrating Behavioral Health Services in the Community; and (5) Facilitating Adoption of Health Information Technology.
CHRC CFP FY 2011: (1) Comprehensive Women’s Health Services and Reducing Infant Mortality; (2) Dental Care for Low-Income Children; (3) New Access Points and Building Healthcare Infrastructure in Primary Care Settings; and (4) Integrating Behavioral Health Services in the Community.
CHRC CFP FY 2010: Increasing Access to Comprehensive Women’s Health Services and Reducing Infant Mortality.
CHRC CFP FY 2009: (1) Integrating Behavioral Health Services in the Community, focusing on children and adolescents populations; (2) School-Based Health Services; (3) New Access Points and Building Healthcare Infrastructure in Primary Care Settings; (4) Improving Access to Dental Care; and (5) Programs to link patients to services which support health status improvement and develop service networks of care.
CHRC CFP FY 2008: (1) Integrating Behavioral Health Services in the Community; (2)Reducing Non-Emergency Use of Hospital Emergency Departments; (3) Improving Access to Care for Low-Income and Uninsured Immigrants; and (4) Improving Access to Dental Care.
CHRC CFP FY 2007: (1) Reducing Non-Emergency Use of Hospital Emergency Departments; (2) Integrating Behavioral Services with Somatic Services; and (3) Other Initiatives to Develop Coordinated, Integrated Systems of Community-Based Care.
In addition to these six CFPs, the CHRC has issued two targeted Calls for Proposals, which are open to specific community health resource providers. These CFPs are provided below and are now closed.
Organizations Eligible to Apply for CHRC Call for Proposals
The following three types of community health resources are described in regulations promulgated by the Commission. These types of organizations are eligible to apply for the CHRC’s Call for Proposals:
(1) Designated Community Health Resource: The legislation and the Commission designated fourteen organization types, listed below, as community health resources. Each of these types of entities is eligible to apply for and receive grants from the Commission.
- Federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) and FQHC “look-alikes”
- Community health centers
- Migrant health centers
- Health care programs for the homeless
- Primary care programs for public housing projects
- Local nonprofit and community-owned health care programs
- School-based health centers
- Teaching clinics
- Wellmobiles
- Community health center-controlled operating networks
- Historic Maryland primary care providers
- Outpatient mental health clinics
- Local health departments
- Substance use treatment providers
(2) Primary Health Care Services Community Health Resource: To qualify under this category, organizations must demonstrate that they:
- Provide primary health care services;
- Offer those services on a sliding scale fee schedule; and
- Serve individuals residing in Maryland.
(3) Access Services Community Health Resource: To qualify under this category, organizations must demonstrate that they:
- Assist individuals in gaining access to reduced price clinical health care services;
- Offer their services on a sliding scale fee schedule; and
- Serve individuals residing in Maryland.
