SUMMARY: This opportunity focuses on New York State’s healthcare facilities and optimizing their training capacity. The primary aim is to increase the healthcare workforce and provide the opportunity to improve facilities’ ability to support a capable, well-functioning, and highly skilled population of healthcare professionals. This program’s secondary aim is to train healthcare students or employees to become licensed or certified healthcare workers. The program can accommodate current, new, and/or future employees.
Examples of eligible services and equipment include:
- Tuition and costs, including books, fees, etc.
- License, certification, and exam fees
- Wage subsidies to cover participant wages while they are in school or training
- Virtual training costs
- Recruitment costs related to participants entering a training program
- Recruitment costs related to hiring educators and trainers
- Equipment expenses (e.g., simulation lab mannequins, training stations) that are tied directly to an increase in the number of training slots and participants trained
A total of $162, 500,000 is available in total funding over a 5 year period. Approximately $32,500,000 will be made available each year. The minimum award amount is $500,000 and the maximum award amount is $1,000,000.
DEADLINE: The application deadline is October 14, 2025.
ELIGIBILITY: An Eligible Applicant must be a legally existing facility located in New York State, capable of entering a Master Grant Contract with the New York State Department of Health. Applicant must be a not-for-profit, Article 28 facility, including County or State-run facilities, responsible for training New York State licensed or certified healthcare professionals.
Applicant must attest to the Not-for-Profit facility type on the Attachment
1: Checklist and Commitment form. Not-for-profit, Article 28 facilities may include:
- General Hospitals certified or licensed under Article 28
- Diagnostic and Treatment Centers certified or licensed under Article 28
- Residential Health Care Facility - Skilled Nursing Facility certified or licensed under Article 28
- A consortium of facilities certified or licensed under Article 28
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Increasing_Training_Capacity_Round_2_RFA_Final.pdf