Please see the FAQs below and refer to the Nursing Initiative Request for Proposals for full details about this funding opportunity.
What kinds of activities is the MCHF Nursing Initiative going to support?
The MCHF Nursing Initiative will support eligible hospitals to pursue either American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) accreditation through either the Magnet Recognition Program® (Magnet) or Pathway to Excellence Program® (PTE). The grant funding may support a wide range of projects and activities in pursuit of Magnet or PTE accreditation, including, but not limited to the following:
In addition to supporting the journey towards Magnet or PTE accreditation, the Nursing Initiative will also support grantee hospitals to pursue development, implementation, enhancement, or expansion of virtual nursing and/or nurse residency programs if they so choose. MCHF will support hospitals endeavoring to use virtual nursing to add to their nursing workforce – not to replace current bedside nurses.
Funding may include, but is not limited to, the following:
While every hospital selected for support through the Nursing Initiative will pursue Magnet or PTE recognition, the inclusion of virtual nursing and/or nurse residency is an optional component of an applicant’s request.
The Nursing Initiative will not support nurse residence and/or virtual nursing programs for hospitals not also being funded to pursue Magnet or PTE.
Hospitals will be required to apply for grant funding to support either Magnet or PTE accreditation and will have the option to seek additional funding to pursue development, implementation, enhancement, or expansion of virtual nursing and/or nurse residency programs. MCHF will support hospitals planning to use virtual nursing to add to their nursing workforce – not to replace current bedside nurses. Funding may include, but is not limited to, the following:
Eligible applicants are general hospitals and acute care facilities (or their affiliated foundations) in New York State designated by the IRS as 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organizations that substantially serve high-need patient populations relative to the general population in their region. This might include:
Applicants must be individual hospitals, not hospital systems. A system interested in applying for funding at multiple hospitals must complete a separate application for each hospital.
No. Only hospitals that do not currently have Magnet status are eligible to apply.
The number of awards will be determined by the composition of the selected portfolio of hospitals and the level of funding requested by each.
There is not an explicit range for budget requests. Hospitals should request the amount of funding they will need to complete the proposed project for the entire duration of the grant. The maximum annual award to an individual hospital is not expected to exceed $1M.
The MCHF Nursing Initiative application form will be available online via the MCHF application portal, on Tuesday, October 1, 2024.
MCHF will inform hospitals once the application period opens. In the meantime, applicants can register in the portal prior to beginning their application. Only applications submitted through the application portal by Wednesday, December 4, 2024, at 11:59 PM will be considered for funding.
The maximum grant term is expected to be 5 years beginning in 2025.
MCHF will host an applicant webinar on Tuesday, October 15, at 11:00 am to share more information about the application process and to answer questions. Register here.
Click on the link below to download the full RFP.
Nursing Initiative Full RFP – pdf (282 KB)
Please send questions to grantsupport@cabrinihealth.org.
Register here to receive more information about the Nursing Initiative.
Watch the recorded webinar
Yes, the slides from our Nursing Initiative Webinar are available on our Resources page along with the full recorded Webinar and the RFP.
Yes, the Magnet/PTE application process, including the application for Magnet/PTE, can be part of the grant-funded project
Yes, if you have a related pending application with us, just note that somewhere in your Nursing Initiative application.
It is virtual nursing as long as it’s happening in the hospital (not telehealth). As a reminder: Virtual Nursing is NOT a stand-alone component. An applicant must be applying for the Magnet or PTE certification to “add on” the virtual nursing component.
Nurse Residency and Virtual Nursing are NOT stand-alone components. An applicant must be applying for the Magnet or PTE certification to “add on” the nurse residency or virtual nursing component. Hospitals currently designated as Magnet are NOT eligible to apply.
Unfortunately, since the hospital is located in Pennsylvania it is not ineligible to apply.
Yes, this hospital would be eligible to apply.
Yes, each application will be reviewed on its merits and there is no inherent limitation or restriction of one award per hospital system.
Each hospital needs to apply separately. The larger health system would need to create a grant application for each hospital.
There is no absolute percentage threshold of patients served with Medicaid or no insurance. We ask that you think about the population served in relation to the community in which the institution resides. The types of organizations that may be serving high needs populations include safety net hospitals, sole community hospitals, hospitals serving primarily rural regions, and hospitals substantially serving Medicaid enrollees and/or uninsured patients.
That is not being considered at this time.
This initiative is aimed at supporting hospitals serving a general population of patients, and therefore, specialty hospitals are not eligible.
The maximum grant funding is up to $1M per year per hospital for up to 5 years.
That is correct.
We anticipate an announcement sometime in March or April 2025.
Yes, you can click the purple application summary button while in the online application
You can register as a new user and connect yourself to the organization by following the steps from the portal. You can reach out to grantsupport@cabrinihealth.org if you need further assistance.
No, if your organization is in Active status, no further edits are needed.
We encourage having separate accounts. You can be invited as a collaborator for multiple grant applications, but not a primary contact for more than one organization.
If you work in a hospital system, you can set up your hospital system as the applicant organization and submit separate applications for each hospital. Please differentiate each hospital in the project name field of the application. Our grants management team can work with you to set up each hospital with its own organization profile – please email grantsupport@cabrinihealth.org for further assistance.
Please provide a timeline with your best ideas and thoughts about all the proposed activities over the full length of the requested grant period.
You can read more about that here on our website: https://cabrinihealth.org/catholic-values/
This is linked in the application itself on the Grant Request tab. It is in the instructional language on the narrative questions related to PTE.
Please do the best you can to describe who you work with, internally and externally. This does not have to be an exhaustive list. This field has a character limit.
We are referring to outpatient visits.
The VN part is separate and apart from the Magnet journey and can happen at any point in the grant term.
Yes, it can be used for that purpose.
Yes, this is an eligible expense.
There is no set maximum for this; however, please consider a balanced approach to your application.
