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

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.).