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We continue to onboard HRSA-supported health centers (HRSA-funded health centers and Health Center Program look-alikes) and Medicare-certified Rural Health Clinics into the HRSA COVID-19 Testing Supply Program. Through it, health centers can order free, FDA-approved COVID-19 at-home self-test kits (Quidel QuickVue® At-Home OTC COVID-19 tests) for distribution to their communities.
Last month, we shared related information in:
If your health center isn’t participating yet, it’s not too late! We include information further down in this message about how to join.
TODAY! All health centers—participants or not—are welcome to join HRSA COVID-19 Testing Supply Program Office Hours:
1:00-2:00 p.m. ET
Join the session
If you prefer to join by phone: 833-568-8864
When prompted, enter meeting/webinar ID: 160 545 7849
How Health Centers are Distributing At-Home Self-Testing Supplies
We encourage health centers to distribute test kits to individuals within their communities in need of testing, especially populations at greatest risk from adverse outcomes related to COVID-19. Examples include, but are not limited to:
- Health care for the homeless mobile clinics, street medicine teams, and field-based case management teams.
- Agricultural worker programs in rural areas.
- Individuals visiting nursing home patients, traveling to see elderly adults or small children, and/or who are asymptomatic with known exposure.
- Homebound patients during physician home visits or as a leave-behind after visits.
- Essential workers including child care providers, teachers, health workers in long-term care facilities, university and community college students, and parents of middle and high school athletes.
- Health center sites where there are no large pharmacies or grocery stores nearby.
- Residents of HUD-assisted housing (see Expanding Access to COVID-19 Testing Supplies - HUD Exchange).
Expectations for Program Participants
Participating health centers must:
- Complete the Conditions of Participation and Site Selection information.
- Provide information on testing supply inventory in CDC’s Diagnostics Provider Order Portal (DPoP).
- Complete the biweekly Health Center COVID-19 Survey, including three new testing supply program questions.
Conditions of Participation and Site Selection
To opt in and begin ordering these test kits, your health center’s points of contact should complete the Conditions of Participation and Site Selection (COPSS) information available in the Health Center COVID-19 Online Community. This online community is not where you will order test kits.*
(See our December 15 bulletin for instructions on getting your health center’s points of contact set up in the online community.)
Once you complete the COPSS, HRSA’s COVID-19 Testing Supply Program team will email you to confirm that you are ready to order in DPoP or to let you know if we need more information or any additional action from you.
Please be aware that the DPoP access is determined by the points of contact listed under each site. The system may default to either a Project Director, or contacts that are enrolled in the HRSA Health Center COVID-19 Vaccine Program. If you are not receiving a message from DPoP, you may need to connect with these contacts and instruct them to add you as a contact for each site. To do this, they will select a site, navigate to the contact section on the lower right-hand side of the page, and click the green “+” sign.
We recommend that you complete the COPSS steps by Friday, January 7, in order to place an order by 11:59 p.m. your local time on Tuesday, January 11. Subsequent orders may be placed by 11:59 p.m. your local time each Tuesday. Tracking information will be shared confirming the delivery date for each order.
*Ordering Testing Supplies
The online community is not where your POCs will order testing supplies. The orders will be made in CDC’s DPoP. DPoP is one section of the Health Partner Order Portal (HPoP), which also contains V Trcks Provider Order Portal (VPoP). Contacts/users not already in HPoP, VPoP, or DPoP will receive a system-generated email with a single-use link through which they will create a password and set up two-factor authentication. That email will also contain the normal link they will use to log into HPoP after their initial setup.
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