COVERYS COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION

2026 Special Focus RFP Grant Program

We Support Advances that Matter to Our Communities

Coverys Community Healthcare Foundation, Inc. (CCHF) is committed to providing resources to US-based healthcare organizations that attempt to advance the practice of medicine and enhance the healthcare experience by creating and testing new processes and procedures or developing strategies focused on improving patient outcomes and mitigating inequities in the access to, and receipt of, quality healthcare. The 2026 CCHF Special Focus Request for Proposal (RFP) Grant Program will focus on:

Improving diagnostic accuracy and/or improving patient outcomes in physician/office-based healthcare settings, emergency departments, or inpatient healthcare settings.

Program Information

The 2026 Special Focus RFP Grant Program is now open. This year’s cycle is from August 11 to October 6, 2026 (11:59 p.m. EDT). Applications received after the deadline will not be considered. Awards will be announced in early December.

To be eligible for consideration for grant funding, applicants must comply with our Grant Guidelines and agree to follow our Reporting Guidelines.
Grant Guidelines

All applications must be submitted through our online portal.
Online Portal

For your convenience, you may use the Application Worksheet (.docx) and Project Budget Summary Form (.xlsx) for the online application.
Application Worksheet
Project Budget Summary Form

Note:

Our 2026 special focus grant ties in with our three-part series of white papers that examine diagnostic error across the following healthcare care settings: emergency department, office-based practice, and hospital inpatient. The first two papers are available now (from links below), and the hospital inpatient paper will be published later this year.

White papers in the Coverys series, A Dose of Insight^® —
"Hidden in Plain Sight: Exposing the Drivers of Diagnostic Error"
Part One: Emergency Department
Part Two: Office-Based Practice

Part Three: Hospital Inpatient (forthcoming)