Arizona is slated to receive roughly $113 million in federal recovery funding after the Federal Emergency Management Agency approved a new round of grants tied to disaster response and pandemic-related expenses.
The largest share of the funding — nearly $105 million — will go to Dignity Community Care, the Arizona affiliate of Dignity Health. According to a FEMA announcement released Thursday, the reimbursement will help cover contract services tied to inpatient clinical treatment and diagnostic care provided during the COVID-19 response effort.
Another $5.5 million was approved for the Havasupai Tribe, whose reservation lies in a remote section of the Grand Canyon. FEMA said the money will support long-term repairs to bridges and ancestral burial sites damaged by severe flooding.
The Arizona Department of Emergency and Military Affairs will also receive approximately $2.4 million to offset costs associated with statewide COVID-19 response operations.
Arizona was one of several states and U.S. territories included in the latest round of FEMA approvals, which totaled about $307 million. Other recipients include Nevada, Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
The agency said the awards are part of a broader federal assistance initiative that has distributed billions of dollars nationwide to help communities recover from disasters and public health emergencies. FEMA has approved roughly $5.6 billion through the program to date.
The latest funding wave also arrives as the federal government intensifies oversight of relief spending following President Donald Trump’s March executive order establishing a task force focused on eliminating fraud in federal programs.
Meanwhile, FEMA recently reopened applications for its Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities initiative after a federal court ruling reversed the program’s cancellation last year. The grant program is designed to help communities invest in infrastructure projects aimed at reducing future disaster risks.
