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Grant Opportunity Profile
| Grant Opportunity ID |
| DOH01-HWRI2-2019 |
| Agency |
| Department of Health |
| Grant Opportunity |
| Health Workforce Retraining Program/Initiative |
| Contact Name |
| Susan Mitnick |
| Contact Email |
| HWRI2019@health.ny.gov |
| Solicitation Profile |
The Health Workforce Retraining Program, also known as the Health Workforce Retraining Initiative (HWRI), supports the training and retraining of health and public health industry workers with the skills necessary in the public health and health care market today.
The New York State Department of Health (“the Department”), in consultation with the New York State Department of Labor, is soliciting applications from organizations proposing to train or retrain (hereafter referred to as “train”) health industry workers to obtain new positions, meet the new job requirements of existing positions, or otherwise meet the requirements of the changing public health and health care market and the diversity of the populations seeking health care services.
Growth in health care occupations continues to be strong. It is projected that between 2016 and 2026, health sector employment will grow much faster than employment in all other sectors, adding more jobs than any other occupational groups. This trend is reflected in New York State, where health sector employment accounted for over 12% of total employment in 2014, increasing faster than employment in all other sectors.
Despite this job growth, shortages exist in many regions and settings across the state. Health care sectors, including public health, continue to face challenges in recruiting and retaining employees in various health care settings. Health care facilities face increasing pressures to operate more efficiently due to declining inpatient occupancy levels, a continuing need to integrate emerging technologies into the health care delivery system, revenue shortfalls, the continued transition of resources from inpatient and tertiary care to primary care and the risk of destabilization of the health care market due to federal cuts to health care.
In addition, New York State initiatives such as the Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) Program and the State Health Innovation Program (SHIP), encourage providers to work collaboratively to achieve better health, better health care and lower costs through the development of models of integrated care management such as “patient centered medical homes,” advanced primary care models and “health homes.” These efforts require the existing workforce to be trained in emerging models of collaborative care, understand how to focus on population health needs, work in interdisciplinary teams, maximize the use of health information technology and prepare for value and outcome based payment systems.
This program is intended to support organizations to train or retrain health industry workers to obtain new positions, meet the new job requirements of existing positions, or otherwise meet the demand for skills and expertise required by the changing public health and health care market, including the diversity of the populations seeking health care services. In particular, this program is intended to address workforce needs including, but not limited to, the following:
•The need for new skills required for existing public health and health care workers to maintain current employment including meeting new job or certification/licensing requirements;
•Additional skills needed to prepare individuals for new job opportunities that are created due to changes in the market, including new employment for laid off workers or workers at risk of being laid off;
•Occupational shortages, both current and anticipated in the near future;
•Changes in skills required to support models of integrated care management and interdisciplinary team-based care;
•Changes in skills required to support emerging technologies, including telehealth;
•The need for data production and analytic skills that are required to support performance measurement, quality improvement, better population health management and high quality, cost effective health care service delivery;
•The growth of home and community-based long-term care and the need for long term care workers caring for individuals wishing to remain in their homes and communities; and
•Skills needed to ensure safe and effective care transition from one setting to another, to reduce avoidable hospital readmissions and emergency care usage.
Up to $18,320,000 is available to support this Request for Applications (RFA) for a two-year period. Regional funding is available based on the amount available in a region and will be awarded on a competitive basis within a region in accordance with the guidelines laid out in RFA Section V.C. (Review and Award Process).
The region in which funding is to be requested is determined by:
•the county of the employer with participants to be trained, or
•the county of residence of laid-off workers to be trained.
***Q&A's posted to Grants Gateway on May 24, 2018***
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| Full Announcement Details |
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Applications Due (Date / Time)
June 22, 2018 / 04:00 PM ET |
Bidder's Conference(s)/Application Workshop(s)
None available
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| Anticipated Award Date | Monday, October 1, 2018 |
| Anticipated Initial Contract Length | 2 Years |
| Total Funding Available | $18,320,000.00 |
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| Narrative | Award amounts are based on maximum funding levels by region. The maximum amount for an award in each region is limited to the amounts listed in RFA. |
| Letter of Intent | Not Required |
| Letter of Intent Due | |
| Narrative | A Letter of Intent is not requested for this project. |
| Questions Due Date | Tuesday, May 15, 2018 |
| Questions and Answers Narrative | All substantive questions must be submitted in writing or via email to:
Susan Mitnick
New York State Department of Health
Corning Tower, Room 1603
Empire State Plaza
Albany NY 12237
HWRI2019@health.ny.gov
To the degree possible, each inquiry should cite the RFA section and paragraph to which it refers. Written questions will be accepted until the date posted on the cover of this RFA. This includes Minority and Women Owned Business Enterprise (MWBE) questions and questions pertaining to the MWBE forms.
Questions of a technical nature can be addressed in writing or via telephone by calling Susan Mitnick at 518-473-4700. Questions are of a technical nature if they are limited to how to prepare your application (e.g., formatting) rather than relating to the substance of the application.
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| Questions and Answers Posting Type | Upload |
| Questions and Answers Posting Date | 5/25/2018 12:00:00 AM |
| Questions and Answers Link or Upload | Click here |
| Eligible Applicants | Not-For-Profit, For Profit, Governmental Entity |
| Target Population(s) | Other |
| Service Area(s) | Health Services, Workforce Development |
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