# FY 2021 Regional Disaster Health Response System

Source: https://welltoldgrants.com/grants/ep-hit-21-003-fy-2021-regional-disaster-health-response-system/  
Official notice: https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/335346

> Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response offered grants of up to $3.0 million (at least $3.0 million) to the applicants described in the notice. It expected to make one award worth $3.0 million in total. Applications closed on September 20, 2021.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Opportunity number | EP-HIT-21-003 |
| Agency | Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response |
| Status | Forecast |
| Deadline | September 20, 2021 |
| Award ceiling | $3.0 million |
| Award floor | $3.0 million |
| Expected awards | 1 |
| Total funding | $3.0 million |
| Cost sharing | not required |
| Assistance Listings | 93.817 |

## Who can apply

- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

Hospitals, local health care facilities, political subdivisions, states, emergency medical services organizations, emergency management organizations

## What the grant funds

When disaster strikes, communities need their health care system to be ready to respond. However, previous large-scale disasters and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic demonstrate that even the most prepared communities struggle to effectively deliver health care services in times of crisis. To address gaps in health care delivery during disasters, ASPR developed a Regional Disaster Health Response System (RDHRS). The RDHRS is a tiered system that builds upon and unifies existing assets within states and across regions that supports a more coherent, comprehensive, and capable health care disaster response system able to respond health security threats. The RDHRS integrates clinical and health care systems’ operational expertise into existing preparedness and response structures at the local, state, and regional level, and expands capabilities and capacity for improving disaster readiness across the health care system, increasing medical surge capacity, and providing specialty care - including trauma, burn and infectious disease, among others - during large-scale disasters or public health emergencies. RDHRS sites build on existing medical surge and disaster preparedness foundations across industry and government, fostering and mature multi-state partnerships as well as industry assets to create an integrated, tiered system of disaster health care. The RDHRS is designed to complement existing Medical Surge Capacity and Capability (MSCC) , foundation for local or sub-state medical response (e.g., trauma systems and health care coalitions (HCCs)) by enhancing coordination mechanisms and incorporating discrete clinical and administrative capabilities at the state and regional levels. The HCCs serve as partnerships between core member stakeholders in health care, emergency medical services (EMS), public health, and emergency management. These coalitions are focused on facilitating an integrated and coordinated response across the local area. The RDHRS complements these local efforts through statewide and regional surge capacity building, situational awareness, readiness metric development, and capability testing exercises, among other regional efforts. While the RDHRS operates at a regional level to enhance health care disaster preparedness and response, the RDHRS is not intended to alter or displace current local patient referral patterns.

## Questions people ask

### Is EP-HIT-21-003 still open?

No. It closed on September 20, 2021.

### Who can apply for FY 2021 Regional Disaster Health Response System?

Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response accepted applications from the applicants described in the notice. The notice adds further conditions, so read its eligibility section.

### What is the deadline for FY 2021 Regional Disaster Health Response System?

Closed September 20, 2021. Applications are no longer accepted; the program's newer notices are on this page when there are any.

### How much funding is available?

Awards of up to $3.0 million each. About $3.0 million in total for one award.

### Who has won Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP) Ebola Preparedness and Response Activities grants before?

The largest recipients over five fiscal years were Emory University, Denver Health and Hospital Authority, The General Hospital Corporation. The program made 27 awards worth $87.1 million in that time.