The Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response accepts applications for its Pediatric Disaster Care.
Donor Name: Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/26/2022
Size of the Grant: $3,000,000
Grant Duration: 12 months
Details:
Children represent 25 percent of the U.S. population and face specialized medical issues due to their unique developmental and physiologic characteristics. Pediatric care requires specialized equipment, supplies, and pharmaceuticals. While specialized pediatric hospitals provide excellent care for children on a day-to-day basis, special consideration needs to be given to providing pediatric care during public health emergencies and disasters, such as mass casualty incidents. Though much progress has been made in this area, significant gaps in pediatric disaster readiness remain. These gaps are most evident in highly specialized areas such as trauma, emerging infectious disease (EID) , exposures to chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) agents, and behavioral health.
Purpose
The purpose of this FOA is to fund onePCOE to:
- Develop a coordinated pediatric disaster care capability for pediatric patient care in disasters;
- Strengthen pediatric disaster preparedness plans and health care system coordination related to pediatric medical surge in disasters;
- Enhance statewide and regional medical surge capacity for pediatric patients;
- Increase and maintain health care professional competency through the development and delivery of a standardized training program; and
- Enhance situational awareness of pediatric disaster care capabilities and capacity and assess regional pediatric readiness.
- Specific focus will be given to the management of pediatric care related to trauma, infectious diseases including pandemic influenza (PI) and other EID, burn, and CBRN incidents.
Funding Information
- Award Ceiling: $3,000,000
- Award Floor: $1
- Expected Duration of Support: 12 months (one year)
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible applicants are limited to one or more public or private hospitals and/or corporate health systems. For the purposes of this FOA, a corporate health system is defined as an organized, coordinated, and collaborative network that (1) links various health care providers, via common ownership or contract, across three domains of integration – economic, non economic, and clinical – to provide a coordinated, vertical continuum of services to a particular patient population or community, and (2) is accountable both clinically and fiscally for the clinical outcomes and health status of the population or community served, and has systems in place to manage and improve them.
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