Description
The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to fund four Pediatric Disaster Care Centers of Excellence (PEDs COEs) to develop a coordinated pediatric disaster care capability, strengthen pediatric disaster preparedness plans, enhance statewide and regional medical surge capacity, increase and maintain health care professional competency, and enhance situational awareness of pediatric disaster care capabilities. The PEDs COEs will serve as regional hubs for pediatric disaster preparedness, planning, coordination, education, training, situational awareness, and specialized pediatric surge capability. Key activities include:
• Developing a coordinated pediatric disaster care capability for pediatric patient care in disasters
• Strengthening pediatric disaster preparedness plans and health care system coordination related to pediatric medical surge in disasters
• Enhancing statewide and regional medical surge capacity for pediatric patients
• Increasing and maintaining health care professional competency through the development and delivery of a standardized training program
• Enhancing situational awareness of pediatric disaster care capabilities and capacity and assessing regional pediatric readiness
Some of the key outcomes of this project include:
• Developing a tiered regional pediatric disaster care capability for the state and region
• Developing regional capability to provide highly specialized clinical care for pediatric patients
• Developing a regional deployable pediatric response capability
• Creating a regional pediatric disaster readiness self-assessment tool
• Conducting regional exercise(s) to test capabilities