New Mexico — SPROC

A Child Ready System of Regionalized Pediatric Emergency Care

June 1, 2012 - May 31, 2021

Grant Number
H3AMC24075
Project Overview
2012-2016: Focusing on children and families in tribal and rural areas of New Mexico, the project team planned: (1) establish a partnership between the University of New Mexico (UNM) Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine and the UNM Center for Native American Health to develop and disseminate a Child Ready system of regionalized pediatric emergency care in New Mexico and the border regions of Arizona, Colorado, Texas, and Mexico; (2) provide assistance to facilities in achieving a level of readiness to manage pediatric emergencies; (3) provide assistance to providers caring for acutely ill or injured children thru the use of telemedicine; and (4) conduct injury prevention activities in communities.
2016-2021: The New Mexico project team is also building upon lessons learned from a prior Child Ready SPROC award. The 2012 project utilized a community self-assessment approach to attempt to regionalize care where very limited resources exist. Using the community self-assessments, the project team designed, developed, and disseminated a Child Ready System of Regionalized Pediatric Emergency Care in New Mexico and the border regions of Arizona, Colorado, Texas, and Mexico. The team worked with communities to assess levels of preparedness to care for the acutely ill or injured child, regardless of where the emergency occurred – at school, in the park, in the prehospital rig, in the health center, or in the local ED. The New Mexico Child Ready Project now plans to continue its efforts to (1) Expand the Child Ready novel community self-assessment process; (2) Prepare facilities to manage pediatric emergencies; (3) Assist providers caring for acutely ill or injured children; (4) Conduct community injury prevention activities; and (5) Continue the development and expansion of the Child Ready Virtual Pediatric Emergency Department Telehealth Network (CR-VPedED) as a mechanism to support regionalization of resources.
Institution
University of New Mexico School of Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine
Main Contact
Award Amount
$1,100,000

Contacts

Name Role(s) Phone Email
Norman Cooeyate
  • Cultural Liason
(505) 925-4439 ncooeyate@salud.unm.edu
Robert Sapien, MD, MMM
  • Principal Investigator
(505) 272-6349 rsapien@salud.unm.edu
Katherine Schafer, BS
  • Program Manager

Products

Title Format Description Published/Revised Availability
Child Ready Web Talk: Neonatal Emergencies Parts 1 and 2; Household Poisonings and Child Maltreatment Podcast 2016 Not Available

Disseminations

Title Type Publication/Event Published/Presented Identifier Details
Urban and rural patterns in emergent pediatric transfer: a call for regionalization Research Paper/Publication Journal of Rural Health 2014