Holy Spirit Health System

Holy Spirit Health System, a non-profit hospital subsidiary of Penn State Health headquartered in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, operates as a federal grant sub-recipient rather than a prime contractor, receiving public-assistance funding through state intermediaries to support disaster recovery and pandemic-relief operations.

The system's federal footprint centers on COVID-19 pandemic recovery and emergency management. Holy Spirit Health System has received three sub-awards from the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency under the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Public Assistance grant program — awards dated August 2022, December 2022, and January 2026 — each providing federal funds to restore public facilities or services to their pre-disaster design, function, and capacity. These represent the largest and most recent tranches of its federal activity. The organization also holds a small number of awards from the Defense Logistics Agency Distribution, the Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration, and the Department of Veterans Affairs, though most of these carry negligible combined potential values.

The portfolio spans ten awards since 2002, with an unusual gap in activity — one award each in 2007, 2009, and 2010, then silence until 2022–2026. Combined potential value across all awards rounds to $5 thousand, but combined dollars obligated reached $12.9 million, indicating that the obligated amounts substantially exceed line-item potential values in the source data. Seventy percent of awards are prime recipient positions; thirty percent are sub-awards. The Federal Emergency Management Agency and Defense Logistics Agency each account for three awards; HRSA and Veterans Affairs round out the customer set. Award categorization spans general medical and surgical hospital services, child and youth services, medical laboratory work, and ancillary medical support — reflecting the organization's core hospital operations rather than specialized federal service contracting.

Holy Spirit Health System operates within Penn State Health's corporate structure as a subsidiary component, inheriting non-profit tax-exempt status and regional healthcare infrastructure but maintaining its own federal award identity.