Illinois — Targeted Issue

Pediatric Facility Recognition/Categorization: Models of Best Practice, Implementation and Evaluation

Sept. 1, 2010 - Aug. 31, 2013

Grant Number

H34MC19352

Project Overview

EMSC Performance Measure (PM) 74 has only been successfully implemented in a few states. No process, outcome, or effectiveness measures exist. Development of consensus-based tools and measures will facilitate efforts of states on this PM. The goal of this project is to conduct a comparative analysis of facility recognition/categorization criteria, related guidelines, and other hospital designation models, i.e. trauma, perinatal.

Institution

Loyola University, School of Medicine

Main Contacts

Mark Cichon, DO
Evelyn Lyons, RN, MPH

Award Amount

$900,000

Contacts

Name	Role(s)	Phone	Email
Mark Cichon, DO	Principal Investigator		mcicho@lumc.edu
Evelyn Lyons, RN, MPH	Co-Principal Investigator	(312) 793-1234	evelyn.lyons@illinois.gov

Products

Title	Format	Description	Published/Revised	Availability
Partnership and Relationships, Keys to Facility Recognition	Webinar		2013	Not Available

Disseminations

Title	Type	Publication/Event	Published/Presented	Identifier	Details
A National Effort Requiring Local Solutions: Regionalization of Pediatric Emergency Care	Research Paper/Publication	Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine	2014	DOI: 10.1016/j.cpem.2014.02.002	A National Effort Requiring Local Solutions: Regionalization of Pediatric Emergency Care Author(s)/Presenter(s) Amyna Husain, DO, Susan Fuchs, MD Abstract/Description Regionalization of pediatric emergency care is a necessary and enormous task assigned to Emergency Medical Services for Children. One of the founders of medical regionalization, perinatology, has experienced difficulties over the past decade maintaining the structure and systems that had so dramatically improved patient care. Pediatric trauma regionalization, as a component of pediatric emergency care as well as adult trauma care, is foreseeing similar degradation of their system if key issues are not addressed soon. Pediatric emergency care, under the leadership of Emergency Medical Services for Children, is seeking to build strong and sustainable systems of regionalization as the next step toward improving access to high-quality emergency and definitive care for children of all ages throughout the United States. Keywords regionalizationperinataltrauma systemsfacility recognitionpediatric readiness project