Northwell Health, Inc.

Northwell Health, Inc. (doing business as Nslij), a New Hyde Park, New York–based tax-exempt health system, operates as a recipient and sub-recipient on federal healthcare contracts and grants, with 80% of its recent federal award footprint flowing through sub-awards under other prime grantees. The organization does not compete for federal prime contracts on open vehicles; its federal engagement centers on clinical service delivery, workforce development programs, and pandemic-response and hospital-preparedness sub-recipient roles under state and federal health agencies.

Northwell Health's prime federal footprint consists of one significant contract and one workforce development grant. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded Northwell a $31.1 million cost-reimbursement contract on September 29, 2022, to establish and operate a World Trade Center Health Program Clinical Center of Excellence through September 28, 2030, providing healthcare delivery, screening, treatment, care coordination, and program communications for World Trade Center responders and survivors. Place of performance is New Hyde Park. The organization also received a workforce development grant from the Employment and Training Administration (award date June 1, 2023, ultimate completion May 31, 2028) to operate the Northwell Health Advancing Nursing Careers Experience (NHANCE) Program, a $2.99 million federally funded initiative providing career pathways into registered nurse and licensed practical nurse roles for incumbent nursing support staff across eight Northwell hospitals and sub-acute facilities partnering with Nassau, Suffolk, and Queens-area community colleges and workforce boards.

Northwell's sub-award portfolio dominates its federal engagement by count and reflects concentration in pandemic response and hospital operations. Thirty awards flow through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (covering 61% of recent sub-awards), anchored on multiple COVID-19 expenditure reimbursements, force account labor, medical equipment, and pharmaceutical supply sub-awards from New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services. Five sub-awards come through the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, primarily hospital preparedness program sub-awards through Health Research, Inc. and Public Health Solutions. Northwell also acts as a clinical trial site under the University of Pennsylvania (pediatric intensive care unit research participation, award date December 21, 2023, and September 4, 2024) and Wake Forest University Health Sciences (heart failure cardiology research, award date June 25, 2026), delivering patient enrollment, consent, clinical protocol implementation, and biospecimen collection. A sub-award from Weill Medical College of Cornell University (May 2, 2023) uses Northwell physician leadership for a medical research training program.

Federal obligated dollars substantially exceed the combined potential value across all awards—$831.3 million obligated against $31.2 million in potential value—reflecting the actual cost nature of Northwell's World Trade Center contract and the reimbursement structure of FEMA disaster-relief sub-awards, which are invoiced and paid in full rather than reserved as contract ceilings. Activity accelerated from six awards in 2022 to eleven in 2024, with only one award (the CDC contract) facing recompete within the next twenty-four months. Northwell's corporate structure includes four named subsidiaries: Regioncare Inc., North Shore University Hospital, Staten Island University Hospital, and Long Island Jewish Medical Center, all operating as components of the parent nonprofit health system.