Management's Response and Corrective Action Plan: In past experience with USAID reimbursement requests, payment was received 10-14 days after the request for reimbursement was submitted to the office of CFO.CMP Electronic Invoices (USAID). For example, on October 11, 2022, we submitted a request for $308,942.22. Payment was received on October 28, 2022 – 17 days after the request for reimbursement. In the specific case of reimbursement received on September 15, 2023, NPI submitted the request for reimbursement on September 13. In this specific case reimbursement was received within only two days.
We acknowledge our failure to remit grant funds to the Nazareth Hospital on a timely basis. For future grant reimbursement requests, we have implemented a plan to be more diligent in monitoring the receipt of grant reimbursements to ensure that we can immediately disburse them to the recipient.