Emergency Medical Services for Children State Partnership Regionalization of Care

Funding Opportunity Number: HRSA-16-050 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: GrantCategory 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: 4Creation Date: Nov 10, 2015Funding Opportunity Description: This announcement solicits applications for the Emergency Medical Services for Children State Partnership Regionalization of Care (EMSC SPROC) program.  The goal of the EMSC Program is to reduce child and youth mortality and morbidity caused by severe illness or trauma.  The EMSC Program does not intend to promote the development of separate EMS systems for children, but rather to enhance the pediatric capabilities of EMS systems originally designed primarily for adults.  “EMS for Children” broadly means a continuum of care that includes the following components:  prevention, pre-hospital care, hospital-based emergency care, and rehabilitation and reentry of the child from the emergency care environment into the community. The overall purpose of this grant program is to reduce pediatric morbidity and mortality by developing regionalized systems of care[1] thus increasing access to pediatric specialists for children in rural, territorial, insular and/or tribal communities. The 2006 Institute of Medicine (IOM) ...
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