FORECAST · COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT
Centers of Excellence in Healthcare Quality and Safety
- Expected deadline
- Not stated
- Who can apply
- Anyone eligible under the notice (unrestricted)
- Award range
- $3.5 million to $22 million
- Expected awards
- 10
- Total program funding
- $1.1 billion
- Your own money required
- No cost sharing or matching required
- Opportunity number
- CDC-RFA-CK-27-0007
- Posted
- Apr 21, 2026
- Assistance listing
- 93.084
More on who can apply
Applicant organizations that request funding above the ceiling amount listed in Funding Details of this NOFO will be considered non-responsive and will not be passed along for further review.
What it funds
This Program will create a collaborative network of healthcare systems, facilities and public health partners to rapidly detect, respond to, and prevent threats to patient and healthcare worker safety. This Program will support work that improves the safety, quality and resilience of U.S. healthcare delivery.The Program will be made up of healthcare systems inclusive of multiple facilities in a variety of settings, including acute care hospitals (particularly community hospitals, critical access, hospitals, and rural hospitals), long-term acute care hospitals, nursing homes, dialysis centers, emergency rooms and urgent care centers, outpatient facilities and home health providers.The Program will include healthcare systems and facilities partnering with public health departments and other entities or groups with relevant expertise. However, each individual applicant is not expected to have all elements.
Open the official notice on Grants.gov ↗What to do next
- This is a forecast: the agency expects to post the full notice later. Open it on Grants.gov and subscribe there to be told when it posts.
- Get your SAM.gov registration ("all awards") and Grants.gov account active now; both take time.
- Use the forecast's award range and eligibility to decide whether to prepare.
- Watch for the notice; the dates here are estimates and can change.
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From Grants.gov's official daily extract of Oct 25, 2026. The notice on Grants.gov and its attachments are what count. UX Contract is independent and not a government website.