Cooperative Agreement UD7HP28532

The Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention (NEPQR) - Workforce Expansion Program, CFDA 93.359, awarded a $948,097 Project Grant to Loyola University of Chicago, Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing. The award, effective September 30, 2025 through September 29, 2029, will fund the "Nursing - Providing Access to Rural Acute and Long-Term Healthcare (N-PARALTH)" project. The project aims to increase the number of nursing students retained and graduated, provide specialized rural...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded a $1,000,000 Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention (NEPQR) - Workforce Expansion Program Project Grant to the Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University. The project aims to expand nursing workforce capacity in rural and long-term care settings, and enhance educational experiences through training and experiential learning activities focused on rural and long-term...

The Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded a $4,000,000 Project Grant under the Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention (NEPQR) Grants program (CFDA 93.359) to Avera Health, a non-profit integrated healthcare system in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The four-year grant, titled "RETAIN-RNS: Partnering to Expand and Retain South Dakota's Nursing Workforce in Acute and Long-Term Care Settings," aims to prepare BSN and RN...

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNC-G) was awarded a $979,449 Project Grant from the Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention (NEPQR) Grants program (CFDA 93.359). The funding will be used to increase nursing enrollment and the number of nursing graduates who plan to work in rural and medically underserved areas. The program aims to enhance nursing education and clinical...

The National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) awarded a $216,731 Project Grant to Western University of Health Sciences (WesterNU) under the Nursing Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.361). The "Training Interprofessional Community-Engaged Research Teams (T-CERT)" program will provide 1-year educational research training experiences to 80 nurse-scientists over two cohorts, with the goal of empowering nurses to become leaders in community-engaged research. The program aims to...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded a $438,065 Project Grant under the Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention (NEPQR) Grants program (CFDA 93.359) to Eastern Oklahoma State College. The "Rural Nursing Pathways: Providing Accessible Education for Underserved Nursing Students" program aims to address critical nursing workforce needs in rural southeastern Oklahoma. Key activities include providing...

This $1,000,000.00 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention (NEPQR) Grants program (CFDA 93.359) will support South Dakota State University's College of Nursing in Rapid City to increase nursing student enrollment by 15% over the four-year grant period. The "Growing Underserved Communities through Innovation, Development, and Education for...

The Samuel Merritt University's College of Nursing (SMU CON) was awarded a $1,968,192 Project Grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration's (HRSA) Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention (NEPQR) Workforce Expansion Program. The grant, titled the "Oakland Nursing Initiative for Community Health" (ONICH), aims to address the critical nursing shortage in Oakland, CA, which is designated as a Medically Underserved Area (MUA). The grant will fund a comprehensive...

The Samford University Moffett & Sanders School of Nursing received a $747,718 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention (NEPQR) Grants program (CFDA 93.359). The purpose of this four-year grant is to establish and enhance academic-clinical partnerships in acute and long-term care settings to improve training for baccalaureate nursing students. The...

The Washington State Department of Health was awarded a $1,745,076 Project Grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention - Workforce Expansion Program (CFDA 93.359) to implement the Rural Nursing Education Program (RNEP). The grant will enable RNEP to graduate and license a total of 20 registered nurses over four years to work in six rural Washington communities facing significant nursing shortages. The program is...