Service Area Competition - Additional Area 1

The FY 2026 Health Center Program Service Area Competition (SAC) funding improves the health of underserved communities and populations by providing grants to support the delivery of comprehensive, high-quality primary health care services in the United States and its territories.This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is a Service Area Competition-Additional Area (SAC-AA), which announces an additional service area in St. Gabriel, LA, where the previously awarded health center cannot continue to provide services in the funded service area.

The FY 2026 Health Center Program Service Area Competition (SAC) funding improves the health of underserved communities and populations by providing grants to support the delivery of comprehensive, high-quality primary health care services in the United States and its territories.This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is a Service Area Competition-Additional Area (SAC-AA), which announces an additional service area in St. Gabriel, LA, where the previously awarded health center cannot continue to provide services in the funded service area.

A Health Center Program (H80) award is funded under §§ 330(e) of the PHS Act. Awards may include funding to support health centers to serve a population that is medically underserved (community health center or CHC funding) or to serve one or more special medically underserved populations as defined in §§ 330 (g) Migratory and Seasonal Agricultural Workers (MSAW funding), (h) Homeless Population (HP funding), and/or (i) Residents of Public Housing (RPH funding).You can apply if you propose to serve a service area listed in the SAAT and you meet the criteria in the Other Eligibility Criteria section.You can apply as a Competing Continuation applicant if you are a current Health Center Program (H80) award recipient, and you are applying to continue serving your current service area.You can apply as a Competing Supplement applicant if you are a current Health Center Program (H80) award recipient that will serve an announced service area by adding one or more new, full-time, permanent service delivery sites to serve the additional area.You can apply as a New applicant if you are not currently funded through the Health Center Program, and you are applying to serve a service area listed in the SAAT. If you are a Health Center Program Look-Alike, you can apply as a new applicant. If awarded, you will stop being a look-alike and become a funded health center (H80).