The Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP)---Overdose Response is a one-year program supporting improved health care in rural areas by addressing their immediate and short-term needs related to the provision of substance use disorder services.  RCORP--Overdose Response aims to reduce and prevent the risk of overdoses in rural areas.  HRSA (Health Resources and Services Administration) will make approximately 20 rewards of up to $300,000 each.

The RCORP--Overdose Response Program will support specific, short-term substance use disorder prevention, treatment, and recovery activities, as well as work related to capacity building, supportive services, and special populations.  Allowable activities are defined in the notice of funding opportunity.

Eligible organizations include all domestic public or private, non-profit, or for-profit entities.

• A technical assistance webinar via Zoom will be held for applicants on Thursday January 30, at 2:00 pm Eastern. For more information about this funding opportunity, contact the Program Coordinator, Diana Wang, at ruralopioidresponse@hrsa.gov. 
  
  
• View the Notice of Funding Opportunity on Grants.gov and apply by March 10.

Source: HRSA.gov Federal Office of Rural Health Policy

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Providers who received one or more General and/or Targeted PRF payment(s), and/or American Rescue Plan Rural payments exceeding $10,000, in the aggregate, from July 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021 must report on their use of funds in RP4.

Providers who received one or more General and/or Targeted PRF payment(s) exceeding $10,000, in the aggregate, from January 1, 2021 to June 30, 2021 must report on their use of funds in RP3.

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is reporting the first case of monkeypox virus infection in a North Carolina resident, identified by testing at the State Laboratory of Public Health. Monkeypox is a rare but potentially serious, viral illness that typically involves flu-like symptoms, swelling of the lymph nodes and a rash that includes bumps that are initially filled with fluid before scabbing over. Illness could be confused with a sexually transmitted infection like syphilis or herpes, or with varicella zoster virus (chickenpox). Most infections last two to four weeks. 

If your practice received more than $10,000 in provider relief funds and did not submit your Period 2 report, please act immediately by submitting a late Reporting Period 2 report request by Friday, May 13, 2022 at 11:59 pm ET.