
Betsy Wood
7:25 - 8:46
"over the next several weeks, these applications will move through administrative review, project evaluation, and portfolio review, and we'll cover each of these components in a little more detail a little bit later on in the presentation, but those are the stages that the applications will walk through before the final funding recommendations are developed. We're anticipating that that review and evaluation process, you know, we've, we've been in the thick of it since the application period closed."
“over the next several weeks, these applications will move through administrative review, project evaluation, and portfolio review, and we'll cover each of these components in a little more detail a little bit later on in the presentation, but those are the stages that the applications will walk through before the final funding recommendations are developed. We're anticipating that that review and evaluation process, you know, we've, we've been in the thick of it since the application period closed.”
So slide 3 is meant to briefly reorient everybody to where we are in the year 1 funding cycle. As a reminder, we released the letter of interest or LOI outcomes in late May, and those projects or proposals that advanced to the full implementation application process were able to provide those full applications through a window from June 1st through June 22nd. So now we've moved into the review and evaluation phase of this process, and over the next several weeks, these applications will move through administrative review, project evaluation, and portfolio review, and we'll cover each of these components in a little more detail a little bit later on in the presentation, but those are the stages that the applications will walk through before the final funding recommendations are developed. We're anticipating that that review and evaluation process, you know, we've, we've been in the thick of it since the application period closed. Our team and the team at ACF have really been applying a lot of time and energy into reviewing the thoughtful applications that we received, we expect that we'll be able to move through that stage through late July.
Alaska's Department of Health told its advisory council Wednesday that CMS is allowing states to adjust milestone timelines in the Rural Health Transformation Program, and the agency has begun working through possible revisions to targets it described as front-loaded. The council also heard that 365 implementation applications are under review, with awards expected to begin in August.
