In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, both during the immediate period of the crisis but also looking ahead at responses to a possible second wave” later this year, the Ohio Department of Public Safety, Division of EMS has created the COVID-19 PPE grant to provide EMS agencies with funding for the reimbursement for expenditures of PPE made since January 1, 2020.
None is available.
Funding priorities are as follows:
Eligible applicants are Ohio-based EMS organizations with the main responsibility of providing continuous emergency medical services to an Ohio community pursuant to requests and/or calls from the public for emergency medical service response. Such EMS organizations must also meet one of the following:
Agencies that left a Priority One Training and Equipment grant award balance of $300 or more during the last grant cycle will not be eligible.
Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until December 31, 2020, or until all funds have been awarded.
Awards may be up to $1,500 per individual agency. A total of $425,000 in funding is available.