Dignity Health

Dignity Health, doing business as Saint Mary Medical Center, is a tax-exempt non-profit hospital operating as a subsidiary of the larger Dignity Health parent organization. The entity functions as a federal grant sub-recipient rather than a prime contractor, receiving pass-through funding from county and municipal grant administrators to support hospital preparedness activities, emergency relief services, and ambulatory care programs. Saint Mary Medical Center does not hold prime federal contracts or contract vehicles.

Saint Mary Medical Center's federal footprint is entirely grant-based and routed through two state and local pass-through entities: the County of Los Angeles (six sub-awards) and the City and County of San Francisco (one sub-award). The hospital has received sub-awards across four distinct federal grantor agencies, all within the Department of Health and Human Services: the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR, four awards supporting hospital preparedness), the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA, four awards split between hospital preparedness and HIV Emergency Relief Project Grants), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, one award). Combined obligated dollars across all sub-awards total $18.6 million. The recent sub-award activity shows acceleration — one award in 2009, one in 2010, one in 2024, four in 2025, and two in 2026 through mid-March — with the most recent sub-awards from March and February 2026 supporting hospital preparedness and HIV emergency relief. Only one award faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting minimal recompete pressure in the near term.

Saint Mary Medical Center's parent organization, Dignity Health, holds federal contract and grant prime positions across a broader footprint; the parent entity carries Awarded Federal Contract Vehicle status and has Federal Contract Prime Awardees on record, indicating prime contracting and IDIQ participation at the system level. Saint Mary Medical Center's own award history reflects the operational posture of a clinical provider receiving targeted federal healthcare preparedness and emergency relief funding through intermediary local government administrators rather than direct federal procurement.