Lamprey Health Care Inc.

Lamprey Health Care Inc., a New Hampshire–based tax-exempt nonprofit organization and federally qualified community health center (FQHC) established in 1971, receives federal grant funding from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to deliver chronic disease self-management education, behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment, early childhood mental health interventions, and community health worker training across New Hampshire and Vermont. Lamprey operates as a prime grant recipient (71% of recent awards) and as a sub-recipient on collaborative grant projects (29%), with no federal contracting prime or IDV footprint.

Lamprey's customer base concentrates heavily within HHS. The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is the dominant funder, accounting for 11 of 30 identifiable prime awards; the Bureau of Health Professionals (part of HRSA) accounts for an additional 4 awards. The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention together bring 4 awards. The Administration on Aging (now the Administration for Community Living within HHS) funds Lamprey's chronic disease self-management education work. Combined obligated dollars across all federal awards total $134.9 million, though this figure reflects historical cumulative invoicing across a 25-year footprint rather than active program value.

Recent grant activity shows a slowing cadence: four awards in 2022, five in 2023, seven in 2024, two in 2025, and one in 2026. The most recent award, dated August 1, 2026, is a $1,071,511 three-year cooperative agreement from the Administration for Community Living (CFDA 93.734) to expand and sustain the Well-Being Action Network in New Hampshire, targeting 600 chronic disease self-management education participants and 548 Walk with Ease program participants over three years, with work performed in partnership with the Bureau of Aging & Adult Services, Community Behavioral Health Association, and UNH Extension. Prior representative work includes a behavioral health service expansion grant from HRSA's Bureau of Primary Health Care (awarded September 2024, completion August 2025) to increase behavioral health patient enrollment by 55% and substance use disorder patient enrollment by 30%, including medication-for-opioid-use-disorder (MOUD) treatment; an early childhood and family mental health (NEST) project grant from SAMHSA's Center for Mental Health Services (awarded September 2023, completion September 2028) to train child-parent psychotherapy providers and serve 200 children aged 0–6 exposed to adverse childhood experiences; and a community health worker training program (CHW Advance!) from HRSA's Bureau of Health Professionals (awarded September 2022, completion March 2026) to recruit, train, and place 60 new community health workers in New Hampshire and Vermont, prioritizing underrepresented and rural populations. Lamprey also receives sub-awards as a collaborating partner in HRSA-funded nursing clinical faculty development projects managed by Dartmouth College and the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and in regional public health networks administered by the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services. Two awards reach completion within the next 24 months.