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Definition |
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ASPR | HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response |
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ASPR-funded | An activity is considered ASPR-funded through the Hospital Preparedness Program Cooperative Agreement COVID-19 Supplemental Funding if it is: 1) fully funded by Hospital Preparedness Program Cooperative Agreement COVID-19 Supplemental Funding; 2) partially funded by this cooperative agreement and by the facility or other health care entity; or 3) supported by allowable staff positions fully- or partially-funded by this cooperative agreement funding |
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| Crisis Standards of Care | Guidelines developed before disaster strikes to help health care providers decide how to administer the best possible care when there are not enough resources to give all patients the level of care they would receive under normal circumstances.14 Additional crisis standards of care resources can be found at ASPR TRACIE: https://asprtracie.hhs.gov/technical-resources/63/crisis-standards-of-care/0 |
Data Entity | The source organization providing a particular Data Point |
Data Point | Individual data element reported by a state/jurisdictional public health department or its sub-recipient used to calculate or assess the Program Performance Measure |
| EOC | Emergency Operations Center |
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| Facility/Organization | This term applies to the functional organization of a sub-recipient that receives a sub-award from a state/jurisdictional public health department through the Hospital Preparedness Program Cooperative Agreement COVID-19 Supplemental Funding and provides care services to patients, regardless of sub-recipient type. These include acute care hospitals, specialty care centers, outpatient/ambulatory care (includes primary care clinics, urgent care centers, dialysis, community health centers, etc.), home and residential care (includes long-term care, home health agencies, skilled nursing facilities, etc.), EMS/Pre-Hospital (also includes 911/Public Safety Answering Points (PSAP), support services (pharmacies, blood banks, medical supply chain), hospital systems, and other health care entities on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic |
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| Health Care Worker | A health care worker is any worker who provides clinical health care services (i.e., doctors, nurses, laboratory technicians, x-ray technicians, EMS, etc.) |
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| HPP | Hospital Preparedness Program |
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| Infection Control | Infection control prevents or limits the spread of infection in health care settings and includes a range of activities such as: - training for health care worker safety when caring for a COVID-19 patient (e.g., Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) donning/doffing, safe treatment protocols),
- assessing and updating physical infrastructure (e.g., minor retrofitting and alteration of inpatient care areas for enhanced infection control donning/doffing rooms),
- reconfiguring patient flow in emergency departments to provide isolation capacity for Persons Under Investigation (PUIs) for COVID-19 and other potentially infectious patients, expansion of telemedicine and telehealth for the purposes of infection control,
- purchase of or preservation strategies for PPE optimization in accordance with CDC guidelines, and/or other activities in accordance with CDC guidelines for Transmission-based Precautions15
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| NHPP | National Healthcare Preparedness Programs |
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| PPE | Personal Protective Equipment |
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| PSAP | Public Safety Answering Point |
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| PUI | Persons Under Investigation |
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| Program Performance Measure | The national-level performance measure used by ASPR to monitor and evaluate the performance of the Hospital Preparedness Program Cooperative Agreement COVID-19 Supplemental Funding. Result is typically calculated by ASPR based on Data Points reported by Health Care Coalition sub-recipients |
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| RESPTC | Regional Ebola and other Special Pathogen Treatment Center |
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| Recipient | For this administrative supplement, recipients are state/jurisdictional public health departments that receive awards from ASPR’s National Healthcare Preparedness Programs through the Hospital Preparedness Program Cooperative Agreement COVID-19 Supplemental Funding. Formal definitions of recipients can be found in the Code of Federal Regulations (2 CFR 200.1)16 |
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| Recipient-level Direct Cost | Recipients are allowed to use up to 10% of supplemental funding for direct costs associated with activities and funding management |
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| State/Jurisdiction Special Pathogen Treatment Centers | State and jurisdiction special pathogen treatment centers are centers that are staffed, equipped, and have been assessed to have current capabilities, training, and resources to provide the complex treatment necessary to care for a special pathogen patient while minimizing risk to health care workers. Formerly state and jurisdiction Ebola treatment centers, ASPR now requires that these entities change their names to state and jurisdiction special pathogen treatment centers. Their ongoing designation as such a center will be predicated on their willingness to accept a special pathogen patient for the full five years of the COVID-19 supplemental funds |
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| Sub-recipient | Acute care hospitals, specialty care centers, outpatient/ambulatory care, home and residential care, EMS/Pre-Hospital, support services, and other health care facilities/organizations that receive a sub-award from a state or jurisdictional health department through the Hospital Preparedness Program Cooperative Agreement COVID-19 Supplemental Funding. Formal definition of sub-recipient can be found in the Code of Federal Regulations (2 CFR 200.1)14 |
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| Triage | The sorting out and classification of patients or casualties to determine priority of need and proper place of treatment. During infectious disease outbreaks, triage is particularly important to separate patients likely to be infected with the pathogen of concern.17 For the purposes of these measures, activities may include rapid identification and isolation of a patient, approaches for the assessment, transport, and treatment of persons suspected or confirmed to have COVID-19, alternative or innovative models to reconfigure patient flow or transition to inpatient care, identify alternate care sites (on facility grounds or within close proximity) and additional sites (offsite) for sub-acute care patients to increase capacity, training and technical support to EMS agencies and 9-1-1/Public Safety Answering Points on routing patients to the appropriate care setting, evolving protocols related to the dispatch of EMS for COVID-19 suspected patients, creation alternate care sites (e.g., temporary structures, etc.) to provide surge capacity for patient care |
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