This NOFO is intended to rapidly fund pre-approved applicants in order to meet immediate and critical time needs, essential for specific public health actions. This cooperation agreement has high visibility at many different levels, including at Congress level, and it is an attempt to provide financial support to the Community through a new financing mechanism. It is important to collect data that is as accurate and complete as possible so that we can assess whether this is a useful mechanism to ensure that hospitals and other related health facilities have the resources they need to deal with health threats such as COVID-19. ASPR worked with its stakeholder partner, the American Hospital Association, to determine where hospital associations exist in all 50 states, the United States, cities, territories and freely associated states. Puerto Rico is the only area to have a hospital association and to be allowed to obtain the planned hospital association awards. The other territories and freely associated States do not have hospital associations. These jurisdictions are covered by the CDC Emergency Prevention Program Cooperation Agreement (PHEP) and the complement to the Cooperation Agreement for the Hospital Preparedness Program. New York was the only city directly funded with a hospital association. While Chicago and Los Angeles are HPP receptors, they do not have their own hospital associations and are funded by the Illinois and California Hospital Associations.

CDC`s Department of Public and Local Availability (DSLR) manages the first response component. Longer-term crisis-specific response activities are supported by different CDC programmes. The DSLR Crisis Response Cooperative Agreement Coordination Team serves as the project manager for NOFO-funded awards. They can be reached at DSLRCrisisCoag@cdc.gov. This Cooperation Agreement does not require coherence or continued funding. In October 2018, CDC published an updated NOFOpdf symbol for crisis responses. Overall, the nofo requirements for fiscal 2019 have not changed significantly compared to the initial release for fiscal 2018. DCC primarily added new content to clarify requirements for fiscal year 2018. CDC published on October 11, 2017, the first Public Health Crisis Response (NOFO) (CDC-RFA-TP18-1802) to improve the country`s ability to respond quickly to public health emergencies. NOFO increases the speed at which, in the event of a public health emergency, CDC can provide funding to public, local, tribal and territorial authorities by establishing an «approved but unfunded» (ABU) list of response funding recipients.

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