§300d–5 — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary, through the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, can give grants to States, local governments, or groups of them to build up and widen trauma care systems. Grants must be used to connect and expand trauma systems (like ways to increase care before reaching a hospital), to strengthen existing systems, to improve communication with emergency medical services (including better equipment or telemedicine), to improve data collection and storage, or to provide more training and technical help (including remote training for rural emergency staff). When picking who gets money, the Secretary must favor applicants that use national standards to name trauma centers, have rules to send seriously injured people to those centers, check how well their trauma system works, and agree to join the data system in section 300d–3 by collecting and sharing information. Priority goes to projects that improve access to care. Extra consideration is given to projects with strong State or local support, such as non‑Federal funding or resources.

Title 42, §300d–5

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(a)The Secretary, acting through the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, may make grants to States, political subdivisions, or consortia of States or political subdivisions for the purpose of improving access to and enhancing the development of trauma care systems.

(b)The Secretary may make a grant under this section only if the applicant agrees to use the grant—

(1)to integrate and broaden the reach of a trauma care system, such as by developing innovative protocols to increase access to prehospital care;

(2)to strengthen, develop, and improve an existing trauma care system;

(3)to expand communications between the trauma care system and emergency medical services through improved equipment or a telemedicine system;

(4)to improve data collection and retention; or

(5)to increase education, training, and technical assistance opportunities, such as training and continuing education in the management of emergency medical services accessible to emergency medical personnel in rural areas through telehealth, home studies, and other methods.

(c)In selecting among States, political subdivisions, and consortia of States or political subdivisions for purposes of making grants under this section, the Secretary shall give preference to applicants that—

(1)have developed a process, using national standards, for designating trauma centers;

(2)recognize protocols for the delivery of seriously injured patients to trauma centers;

(3)implement a process for evaluating the performance of the trauma system; and

(4)agree to participate in information systems described in section 300d–3 of this title by collecting, providing, and sharing information.

(d)In making grants under this section, the Secretary shall give priority to applicants that will use the grants to focus on improving access to trauma care systems.

(e)In awarding grants under this section, the Secretary shall give special consideration to projects that demonstrate strong State or local support, including availability of non-Federal contributions.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 300d–5, act

July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XII, § 1206, as added Nov. 16, 1973, Pub. L. 93–154, § 2(a), 87 Stat. 598; amended Oct. 21, 1976, Pub. L. 94–573, §§ 7, 14(2), 90 Stat. 2713, 2718; Nov. 10, 1978, Pub. L. 95–626, title II, § 210(c), 92 Stat. 3588; Dec. 12, 1979, Pub. L. 96–142, title I, § 104(c), 93 Stat. 1068, set forth general provisions respecting grants and contracts, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 97–35, title IX, § 902(d)(1), (h), Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 560, 561, effective Oct. 1, 1981. A prior section 1203 of act

July 1, 1994, was renumbered section 1202 and is classified to section 300d–3 of this title. Another prior section 1203 of act

July 1, 1994, was renumbered section 1202 and was classified to section 300d–2 of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 110–23.

Amendments

2010—Pub. L. 111–148 inserted “for trauma systems” after “grants” in section catchline and substituted “Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response” for “Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration” in subsec. (a).

§300d–5 Competitive grants for trauma systems for the improvement of trauma care