Focus Areas

The EMSC EIIC breaks the large continuum of pediatric care into specialized focus areas or domains:

• Disaster Planning: The disaster planning domain offers a variety of tools and resources to facilitate disaster preparedness planning by healthcare providers, public health departments, schools, and families and caregivers.

• Trauma: Traumatic injuries is among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in children. Our trauma domain identifies and disseminates best practices and pediatric trauma care guidelines as well as supports the research and development of new evidence-based guidelines.

• Prehospital Care: This focus area covers pediatric care from education and prevention to incident recognition, treatment at an emergency scene and transport to an emergency department. The major emphasis of this focus area is the establishment and support of Prehospital Pediatric Emergency Care Coordinators (PECC).

• Hospital Based Care: The efforts of our hospital-based care focus area are centered around our National Pediatric Readiness Program which seeks to ensure that all U.S. emergency departments have the essential guidelines and resources in place to provide effective emergency care to children.

• Research: The research focus area works closely with National EMSC Data Analysis Resource Center (NEDARC) to create knowledge and accelerate its implementation through data management and analytics, education on the science of quality improvement and support of multi-institutional research studies through the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN).

EMSC Funded Programs

EMSC funds and supports improvements in pediatric emergency care in every state and territory through competitive demonstration grants or cooperative agreements to state governments and accredited schools of medicine.

The four main programs in EMSC are:

• State Partnership (SP) grants that ensure that pediatric emergency care is integrated into the larger emergency medical services system.
  
• Targeted Issues (TI) grants that support innovative cross-cutting pediatric emergency care projects of national significance.
  
• State Partnership Regionalization of Care (SPROC) grants that develop systems of care models to improve pediatric emergency care capacity in rural and tribal communities.
  
• The Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) which supports the infrastructure to conduct meaningful and rigorous multi-institutional studies in the management of acute illness and injury in children across the continuum of emergency medicine.

All current and historical EMSC grants are searchable in our grants database. Click here to access the database.

QI Collaboratives

The EMSC Innovation and Improvement Center is spearheading a QI collaborative to assist state programs in accelerating their progress in improving the pediatric readiness of EDs and to develop a program to recognize EDs in their state that are ready to care for children with medical emergencies. State improvement teams will benefit by interacting with experts in both pediatric readiness and facility recognition, as well as a cadre of QI specialists.

The three main collaborative in EMSC are:

• Facility Recognition Collaborative
• Pediatric Readiness Quality Collaborative
• Pediatric Emergency Care Coordinator Learning Collaborative

Education and Resources

We are committed to providing EMSC grantees with training and consultation specific to managing their grant, achieving the EMSC performance measures, and identifying resources and partners to help implement grant activities. Our training and consultation is accomplished through conference calls and webinars, annual meetings, the Pulse newsletter, and through the development and dissemination of toolkits, podcasts, online training, and other resources.