Performance Measure 22

Goal or Target

Determined by Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC).

Operational Intent

The measure is designed to determine if hospitals have EDs that are recognized through a statewide, territorial, or regional standardized system that are able to stabilize and/or manage pediatric medical emergencies. HPP will review overall trends in HCCs with hospitals capable of stabilizing and managing a pediatric patient. The inclusion of this measure links the HPP and EMSC programs, highlighting pediatric readiness as key to ensuring that states are considering the special needs of children during emergencies.

Data Reporting

As the data on this joint measure is collected by EMSC as part of their grant requirements, no data will be collected by HPP.

Definitions and Interpretation

• EMSC: EMSC grants have helped all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and five U.S. territories and freely associated states (the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, and Puerto Rico). Grant funds have improved the availability of child-appropriate equipment in ambulances and emergency departments; supported hundreds of programs to prevent injuries; and provided thousands of hours of training to emergency medical technicians, paramedics, and other emergency medical care providers.¹⁶

^16. No data collection required. EMSC will provide the data on the hospitals with EDs that are able to stabilize and/or manage pediatric medical emergencies. HPP recipients, HCCs, and hospitals do not need to provide data to HPP for this component of the measure.

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