Pediatric Disaster Care Centers of Excellence Program Cooperative Agreement

The purpose of this NOFO is to fund four PEDs COEs to:

• Develop a coordinated pediatric disaster care capability for pediatric patient care in disasters.
• Strengthen pediatric disaster preparedness plans and health care system coordination related to pediatric medical surge in disasters.
• Enhance statewide and regional medical surge capacity for pediatric patients.
• Increase and maintain health care professional competency through the development and delivery of a standardized training program.
• Enhance situational awareness of pediatric disaster care capabilities and capacity and assess regional pediatric readiness.

Specific focus will be given to the management of pediatric care related to trauma, infectious diseases including