[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 102 (Wednesday, May 28, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Page 30629]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-12319]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Poison Control Program

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice of Non-Competitive Replacement Awards to the Nationwide 
Children's Hospital, Inc., and the Children's Hospital Medical Center.

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SUMMARY: HRSA will transfer funds and duties from the University 
Hospitals of Cleveland to the Nationwide Children's Hospital, Inc., 
d.b.a., the Central Ohio Poison Center and the Children's Hospital 
Medical Center, d.b.a., the Cincinnati Drug and Poison Information 
Center. These transfers are necessary in order to maintain poison 
control services and education efforts throughout the State of Ohio.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Former Grantee of Record: University 
Hospitals of Cleveland (Grant H4BHS15469) is the former 
grantee.
    Original Period of Grant Support is from: September 1, 2009, to 
August 31, 2014.
    Replacement Awardees: Nationwide Children's Hospital, Inc. (Grant 
H4BHS15471) and the Children's Hospital Medical Center (Grant 
H4BHS15468) are the replacement awardees.
    Period of Replacement Awards: The period of support for the 
replacement awards is March 1, 2014, to August 31, 2014.
    Amount of Replacement Awards is as follows:

 University Hospitals of Cleveland d.b.a. the Greater Cleveland 
Poison Control Center (H4BHS15469) will transfer $89,436 to the 
Nationwide Children's Hospital, Inc., d.b.a., the Central Ohio Poison 
Center (H4BHS15471); and
 University Hospitals of Cleveland d.b.a. the Greater Cleveland 
Poison Center (H4BHS15469) will transfer $89,436 to the Children's 
Hospital Medical Center, d.b.a., the Cincinnati Drug and Poison 
Information Center (H4BHS15468)

    Authority:  Section 1273 of the Public Health Service Act, (42 
U.S.C. 300d-73), as amended by the Poison Center Support, 
Enhancement, and Awareness Act of 2008.

    CFDA Number: 93.253.
    Justification: The poison centers operated by the Nationwide 
Children's Hospital, Inc., and the Children's Hospital Medical Center 
currently provide poison center services to the citizens of Ohio, 24 
hours a day, 7 days a week. These services include telephone treatment 
advice and consultation about toxic exposures for both the public and 
health care professionals and toxico and public health surveillance. 
Educators at the centers provide public education about poison 
prevention and clinical toxicology training for many different 
healthcare professionals. The centers also offer programs to help 
clinicians better manage poisoning and overdose cases that end up in a 
healthcare facility.
    These centers have the capacity to provide poison control service 
to the area formerly served by the University Hospitals of Cleveland, 
ensuring access to critical poison emergency treatment and poison 
prevention information statewide, and to fulfill the expectations of 
the original funded application. These replacement grants will support 
the grantees' abilities to provide poison center services to the 
state's entire population with the least amount of disruption.
    The State of Ohio has determined that the Nationwide Children's 
Hospital, Inc. and the Children's Hospital Medical Center are the best 
qualified grantees for this award. On February 19, 2014, the state 
provided HRSA with a letter designating the two centers as the official 
poison centers of Ohio and assigning them each 50 percent of Ohio's 
service areas.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Poison Control Program, Director, 
Elisa Gladstone, via email at [email protected] or via telephone at 
301.594.4394.

    Dated: May 21, 2014.
Mary K. Wakefield,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2014-12319 Filed 5-27-14; 8:45 am]
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