Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long Island Jewish Medical Center, a subsidiary of Northwell Health, Inc., is a tax-exempt hospital operating as a federal grant recipient focused on trauma-informed behavioral health, primary care training, and substance use screening initiatives, with 42 percent of recent awards held as prime recipient grants and 58 percent routed through sub-awards from state and federal pass-through entities.

The center's federal footprint is concentrated in health services research and clinical training grants from the Department of Health and Human Services, primarily through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), alongside nutrition and food-service programming from the Department of Agriculture. SAMHSA accounts for 12 awards across the recent portfolio, USDA Food and Nutrition Service for 11 awards (notably WIC Local Agency contracts passed through the New York State Department of Health), and NIH for 8 awards. A single Centers for Disease Control and Prevention award carries $9.6 million in combined potential value and anchors the dollar concentration; across all 60 awards in the portfolio, combined potential value totals $9.7 million against $50.6 million in obligated dollars, reflecting heavy front-loading of multi-year grants.

As a prime recipient, Long Island Jewish Medical Center holds six active federal grants spanning trauma recovery, mental health workforce development, and clinical training. The center received $598,169 from SAMHSA's Center for Mental Health Services on September 30, 2026, under CFDA 93.532 (Projects of Regional and National Significance) to operate STRYDD Forward for Quality Care and Empowering Parents/Caregivers of Youth with IDD—a five-year trauma-informed care initiative targeting youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The center delivers provider training using the National Child Traumatic Stress Network Core Curriculum on Childhood Trauma, disseminates the Road to Recovery Toolkit, and serves as a technical assistance hub through September 29, 2031. A $2.95 million HRSA grant awarded September 30, 2023 (CFDA not specified in source) funds the Pathways to Care curriculum, educating pediatric and internal medicine residents across five Northwell residency programs in culturally competent care for patients with limited English proficiency and disabilities; the program targets 575 residents and runs through June 30, 2028. The center also received a $598,169 SAMHSA grant for the Learning to Live Independently for Tomorrow (LIFT) program, supporting coordinated specialty care for youth with first-episode psychosis transitioning out of early-intervention services, with performance through September 29, 2028. Additional prime grants from SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse Treatment address screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) implementation across 14 Northwell clinical sites serving 140,000 patients over five years (awarded June 30, 2023, completion June 29, 2028), and from HRSA on primary care training for language and disability access through June 2028. A community project funding award from the fiscal 2023 appropriations cycle supports equipment purchases for neurological and orthopedic surgery at Long Island Jewish Forest Hills, including neurological navigation systems and orthopedic robotic instrumentation, with completion September 29, 2026.

As a sub-recipient, Long Island Jewish Medical Center participates in 35 federal awards flowing through New York State agencies, Northwell system partners, and national research networks. The majority route through the New York State Department of Health's WIC Local Agency contract (LA #305), which accounts for approximately nine WIC awards since 2022. Additional sub-awards pass through the New York State Office of Mental Health (On-Track New York, supporting first-episode psychosis care), the Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene (OASAS substance use programs and Supporting Wellness for Adolescents and Young Adults at Clinical High Risk for Psychosis), Health Research, Inc. (hospital preparedness program grants), and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (hemophilia treatment center technical assistance). A regional pediatric pandemic network sub-award routes through Children's National Medical Center, and a firearm injury and mortality prevention screening initiative passes through the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services.

Activity in the portfolio has remained steady over the past five years, with 2023 and 2025 each showing 11 prime and sub awards, compared to 10 in 2024 and 3 in 2022. Three awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and are therefore subject to recompete. Performance is based in New Hyde Park, New York, with clinical sites across metropolitan New York including Queens, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Long Island, and Westchester. The center's federal customer base spans 16 distinct agencies, but the portfolio is heavily weighted toward HHS (SAMHSA, HRSA, NIH, CDC) and USDA, together accounting for 67 percent of awards by count. The center has no federal contract prime awards and does not sit on government-wide contract vehicles; all federal work is grant-funded.