GO7810: Market Adjustment Program

The Market Adjustment Program grant opportunity builds on the Government’s existing Market Adjustment Program which supports residential aged care providers (providers) that are facing financial viability concerns by expanding that support to Support at Home providers.

The program provides funding (including ‘critical failure’ funding) to avoid premature aged care provider closures and, in appropriate situations, to support orderly exits and service or provider consolidation.

In addition, the program may also fund initiatives aimed at improving business capability (to reduce likelihood of deteriorating performance).

The overarching program intent is to reduce the risk to the safety of care recipients from disorderly closures or financial failure.

The Market Adjustment Program Grant Opportunity is to safeguard continuity of care for care recipients through support for providers that are in most need of funding assistance, are strategically important (including those in thin markets) and require support to improve business capability and operations.

The MAP grant opportunity will provide grant funding through three streams: Stream 1: Improvement of Business Operations Stream 2: Sale or Closure Stream 3: Critical Failure Grant amounts and the funding stream will be determined by the Department of Health and Aged Care (the department) on a case-by-case basis based on the department’s assessment of the provider’s risk profile and value for money.

An applicant can only apply for the Stream the department issues an Invitation to Apply for.

To view the grant opportunity documents, please select the red "Grant Opportunity Documents" button on the left-hand side.

To be eligible you must have received an invitation to apply from the Department and be a registered residential aged care provider and/or Support at Home provider identified by the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission and/or the Department as a provider at risk.

Applicants may be required to provide access to financial information for the organisation, its Directors and related parties, and undergo financial assessment.

Consortia are acceptable if there is a single lead organisation that is solely accountable to the Commonwealth and is an eligible entity.

Additional commitments (e.g., participation in quarterly benchmarking surveys, appointment of a Business Administrator) may be required and relevant personnel must hold applicable checks (Working with Vulnerable People/Working with Children checks) as specified in the grant agreement.