Health Center Program: Improved Oversight Needed to Ensure Grantee Compliance with Requirements. Report to Congressional Requesters.

摘要

Under the Health Center Program, HRSA provides grants to eligible health centers. HRSA is responsible for overseeing over 1,100 health center grantees to ensure their compliance with Health Center Program requirements. GAO was asked to examine HRSA's oversight. This report (1) describes HRSA's oversight process and (2) assesses the extent to which the process identifies and addresses noncompliance with what HRSA refers to as the 19 key program requirements. GAO reviewed and analyzed HRSA's policies and procedures and available programwide data related to HRSA's oversight of health centers, interviewed HRSA officials, and reviewed documentation of HRSA's oversight from 8 selected grantees that varied in their compliance experience, as well as other factors.