Announcement of Availability of Funds for the Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP)

Post Date

May 29th 2009

Application Due Date

June 30th 2009

Refer to the grant announcement regarding application submission requirements, dates and times.

Funding Opportunity Number

EP-U3R-09-001

CFDA Number(s)

93.889

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Health

Number of Awards

62

Eligibility Categories

Other

Eligible applicants for this funding opportunity are limited to those previously funded under the HPP: 50 States, the District of Columbia, the three metropolitan areas of New York City, Los Angeles County, and Chicago; the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands, the Territories of American Samoa, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands; the Federated States of Micronesia; and the Republic of Palau and the Marshall Islands. Applicants are encouraged to reach out to a broad range of healthcare systems (including but not limited to those identified on page 2 of this FOA) to participate in the HPP; these facilities should work directly with the appropriate State health department programs. To the extent that such facilities apply for State funding and provide requisite documentation, the State could award funding based on appropriate State law and procedures.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $362017984

• Award Range:

  $271559 - $29486456

Grant Description

The HPP goal is to ensure awardees uses these CA funds to maintain, refine, and to the extent achievable, enhance the capacities and capabilities of their healthcare systems, and for exercising and improving preparedness plans for all-hazards including pandemic influenza. For the purposes of this CA, healthcare systems (E.g., sub-awardees) are composed of hospitals and other healthcare facilities which are defined broadly as any combination of the following: outpatient facilities and centers (E.g., behavioral health, substance abuse, urgent care), inpatient facilities and centers (E.g., trauma, State and Federal veterans, long-term, children's, tribal), and other entities (E.g., poison control, emergency medical services, CHCs, nursing, etc.).

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of Health and Human Services

• Office:

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health

• Agency Contact:

  Grants.gov Help Desk

• Agency Mailing Address:

  Support@grants.gov

• Agency Email Address:

  Support@grants.gov

• More Information:

  FY09 Announcement of Availability of Funds for the Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP)