Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP) Ebola Preparedness and Response Activities

Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP) Ebola Preparedness and Response Activities is sponsored by Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR). This program focuses on ensuring the nation's healthcare system is ready to safely and successfully identify, isolate, assess, transport, and treat patients with Ebola, and to be prepared for future outbreaks.

This program covers two separate, but related projects: Part A – Health Care System Preparedness for Ebola and Part B – Development of a Regional Network for Ebola Patient Care. The purpose of this program is to (1) improve healthcare system preparedness for Ebola and (2) develop a regional hospital network for Ebola patient care.

This program covers two separate, but related projects: Part A – Health Care System Preparedness for Ebola and Part B – Development of a Regional Network for Ebola Patient Care. The purpose of this program is to (1) improve healthcare system preparedness for Ebola and (2) develop a regional hospital network for Ebola patient care.

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Eligible applicants are the 62 Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP) awardees, which include health departments in all 50 States, the District of Columbia, the nation’s three largest municipalities (Chicago, Los Angeles County, and New York City, the Commonwealths of Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands, the territories of American Samoa, Guam, and the United States Virgin Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republics of Palau and the Marshall Islands.

Beneficiary eligibility is the same as applicant eligibility. Part A - Health Care System Preparedness for Ebola Through Part A, HHS will provide funding to all 62 Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP) awardees to support state- or jurisdiction-designated Ebola treatment centers, assessment hospitals, and health care coalitions for overall health care system preparedness.

Jurisdictions may use a portion of the funding to: compensate health care facilities for Ebola preparedness activities undertaken since July 2014, build additional capabilities to ensure the nation’s health care system and health care workers are ready to safely and successfully identify, isolate, assess, transport, and treat patients under investigation with Ebola or confirmed to have Ebola, and be well prepared for a future Ebola-like event.

Applicants should review the individual funding opportunity announcement document for specific information about the use of funds for this program.

Part B - Development of a Regional Network for Ebola Patient Care HHS will award funding through Part B of the FOA to up to 10 Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP) awardees (although the decision has been made for Region 4 and Region 7 facilities) to develop a regional network for Ebola patient care, including the establishment of approximately ten regional Ebola and other special pathogen treatment centers with significantly enhanced Ebola and other infectious disease capabilities that will accept a confirmed Ebola patient from their region, across the U.S., or medically evacuated from West Africa, as necessary.

All HPP jurisdictions are eligible to apply for Part B funding.

HPP will award a maximum of 10 awards through Part B (two sole source awards for [1] the Georgia Department of Public Health to support the Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, GA to serve as the Region 4 regional Ebola and other special pathogen treatment center and [2] the Nebraska State Department of Health and Human Services to support the Nebraska Medicine - Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE to serve as the Region 7 regional Ebola and other special pathogen treatment center) and up to eight additional competitive awards for the remaining HHS regions.

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* Other pre-application coordination is required. Pre-application coordination is not applicable. Environmental impact information is not required for this program.

This program is excluded from coverage under E. O. 12372.

2 CFR 200, Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards applies to this program. All applications must be received by the established deadline. Opportunity Posted Location Application Procedures Location Criteria for Selecting Proposals ##### The applicants must submit their application in accordance with the fiscal year Funding Opportunity Announcement.

The applications are reviewed and approved applications are processed immediately. Applications approved with conditions, require the applicant to resubmit supporting information within a prescribed timeframe. Upon review and approval, the revised application can then be submitted to the Office of Grants Management for processing and issuing a notice of grant award.

Part B - Development of a Regional Network for Ebola Patient Care: Applications that successfully proceed through the initial screening (as outlined in the funding opportunity announcement) will be objectively reviewed based upon the review criterial specified in the funding opportunity.

Applications selected for funding will be processed and the applicant notified in writing through the issuance of a Notice of Award from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response.

##### Notification is made in writing through a Notice of Award issued from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response | Spending Time Period Description: Determined at Time of Award | The following 2CFR policy requirements apply to this assistance listing: * Subpart B, General provisions * Subpart C, Pre-Federal Award Requirements and Contents of Federal Awards * Subpart D, Post Federal; Award Requirements * Subpart E, Cost Principles * Subpart F, Audit Requirements CASH: Quarterly SF425 EXPENDITURE: Semi-annual and annual financial reporting requirement Progress/Performance Reports: Applicants funded under this announcement will be required to electronically submit an annual program progress report.

Refer to the link below for 2 CFR Subpart F Audit Requirements. * Determined at Time of Award Refer to the link below for 2 CFR Subpart F Audit Requirements. https://www.

ecfr. gov/current/title-2/subtitle-A/chapter-II/part-200/subpart-F A-133 Grantees are required to maintain grant accounting records for a minimum of 3 years after the end of the grant period.

If any litigation, claim, negotiation, audit or other action involving the record has been started before the expiration of the 3-year period, the records shall be retained until completion of the action and resolution of all issues which arise from it, or until the end of the regular 3-year period, whichever is later. More detailed information regarding retention requirements are provided in Title 45 CFR Part 92