Emergency Medical Services for Children Innovation and Improvement Center

Funding Opportunity Number: HRSA-16-052 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: Cooperative AgreementCategory of Funding Activity: HealthCFDA Number: 93.127Eligible Applicants Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)Agency Name: HHS-HRSAClosing Date: Jan 20, 2016Award Ceiling: $0Expected Number of Awards: 1Creation Date: Oct 22, 2015Funding Opportunity Description: This announcement solicits applications for the Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC) Innovation and Improvement Center (EIIC).  The purpose of the EMSC program is to support the expansion and improvement of emergency medical services for children who need treatment for trauma or critical care.  The goal of the EMSC Program is to reduce child and youth mortality and morbidity sustained as a result of severe illness or injury.  The cooperative agreement will fund an EIIC to provide consultative and technical support to EMSC State Partnership, State Partnership Regionalization of Care, Targeted Issues, and Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network Program grant recipients, in order to help them to develop and implement Quality Improvement (QI) strategies to improve pediatric emergency medical services in both prehospital and hospital care settings. The EMSC Program does not intend to promote the development of a separate EMS system for children, but rather to enhance the pediatric capa...
Source: Grants.gov - Category: Research Tags: Health Source Type: funding