[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 185 (Tuesday, September 26, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Page 44815]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-20543]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Single-Award Deviations From Competition Requirements: Pediatric
Emergency Care Applied Research Network
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department
of Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Notice of Single-Award Deviation from Competition Requirements
for the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) at
the Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio- Grant Number
U03MC222684.
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SUMMARY: HRSA announces the award of a supplement of $50,000 for the
PECARN cooperative agreement. The supplement will permit the Children's
Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, the cooperative agreement
recipient to support its oversight of the operation of PECARN as the
Chair for 2017-2018.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Intended Recipient of the Award: Children's Hospital Medical
Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Amount of Non-Competitive Awards: $50,000.
Period of Supplemental Funding: September 1, 2017, through August
31, 2018.
CFDA Number: 93.127.
Authority: Public Health Service Act, Title XIX, Section 1910
(42 U.S.C. 300w-9); as amended by the Emergency Medical Services for
Children Reauthorization Act of 2014, P.L. 113-180.
Justification: As stated in the funding opportunity announcement,
the goal of the PECARN is to develop an efficient research network to
conduct high quality research and publish evidence-based findings that
will impact clinical practice and ensure standardized care in diverse
health care settings that serve children, including urban, rural, and
tribal settings. The objectives of this award are to:
(1) Support a network infrastructure to conduct high priority, high
impact EMSC research using rigorous study designs and methodologies
that can be applied to multi-site Emergency Department and/or
prehospital emergency settings;
(2) Contribute to an organizational structure that ensures network
efficiency, productivity, and fidelity of study implementation and
includes the ability to: (a) Develop study projects; (b) Attain
extramural funding; (c) Conduct multi-site clinical investigations; (d)
Publish and disseminate results; and (e) Develop young investigators in
the area of pediatric emergency medicine;
(3) Facilitate translation of research results to EMSC practices;
and
(4) Foster collaboration among EMS personnel, nurses,
practitioners, and researchers.
Success of the PECARN requires the services of a Chair, who is
elected on an annual basis by grantees. This annual supplement is
necessary to support the Chair's responsibilities which are within the
scope of the cooperative agreement program, but were not required to be
budgeted for in the organization's application due to the unknown
contingency of who would be elected as Chair on behalf of which
organization. Dr. Richard Ruddy of Children's Hospital Medical Center,
Cincinnati, Ohio, was elected Chair of the PECARN for 2016-2018. The
proposed supplement is to supply funds to the Chair to support his
oversight of the operation of PECARN including coordinating and running
the Steering Committee meetings, appointing Subcommittee Chairpersons
to be later approved by the Steering Committee; maintaining ongoing
communications with principal investigators and keeping all of PECARN
updated with new/ongoing activities; representing PECARN at national
meetings; and serving as liaison to HRSA/Maternal and Child Health
Bureau federal officials.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Diane Pilkey, Division of Child,
Adolescent and Family Health, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health
Resources and Services Administration, 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 18N58C,
Rockville, MD 20852, Phone: 301-443-8927, Email: [email protected].
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FY 2017
FY 2017 Estimated
Grantee/organization name Grant No. State Authorized supplemental
funding level funding
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Children's Hospital Medical U03MC222684 OH $735,918 $50,000
Center.
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Dated: September 19, 2017.
George Sigounas,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2017-20543 Filed 9-25-17; 8:45 am]
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