Emergency Medical Services for Children State Partnership Program

This notice solicits applications for the Emergency Medical Services for Children State Partnership Program. The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB), Division of Child, Adolescent and Family Health is accepting applications for the Emergency Medical Services for Children State Partnership (EMSC SP) Program. This Program will provide funding for demonstration projects in each U.S. state and jurisdiction for the expansion and improvement of state emergency medical services (EMS) for children who need treatment for trauma or critical care. Through state, national, and federally coordinated efforts, the EMSC SP Program will systematically improve the delivery and quality of emergency care to improve patient outcomes, thus reducing pediatric morbidity and mortality. Recipients will demonstrate new models of EMS system and patient outcome improvements for children by testing innovative methods to promote electronic health information systems; coordination of pediatric emergency care; increased education for the emergency workforce; integration of pediatric components in emergency systems, and national quality improvement (QI) initiatives aimed to improve health outcomes. Each grant recipient will work to achieve the following EMSC SP Program objectives, which are designed to monitor and measure impact at the state/jurisdiction level and are in alignment with established targets for the Program's performance measures: 1) By 2020, increase to 30 percent the proportion of EMS agencies that have a designated individual responsible for the coordination of pediatric emergency care. 2) By 2020, increase to 30 percent the proportion of EMS agencies that evaluate EMS practitioners' pediatric skills at least once per year. 3) By 2021, increase to 80 percent the proportion of EMS agencies that collect and submit uniform data to the National EMS Information System.1 4) By 2022, increase by 10 points from 2016 baseline the average National Pediatric Readiness Assessment