Friday, April 18, 2025
4/18/2025
Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending - Construction - New York Medical College 40 Sunshine Cottage Road Valhalla, NY 10595 David Markenson 914-594-1742 David_Markenson@nymc.edu https://www.nymc.edu/center-for-disaster-medicine/ This project directly responds to the category of Health Facilities Construction and Equipment grants. It seeks help with the cost of construction, renovation, and capital equipment for facilities for training of health professionals, at a school of medicine and other health professions. This project will advance critically needed equity and compassion in the education and training of physicians and other health professionals by challenging them with demanding real-time scenarios in health care. Mock patients, ethnically diverse and portrayed by professional actors in character or by sophisticated hi-fidelity mannequins, may initially conceal food insecurity, unemployment, or disordered personal relationships, all of which students will learn to probe and investigate with the same intensity as they would initially direct to chest pain or impending labor. Simulations of community-wide emergencies, such as severe weather, mass transit accident, active shooter event, or pandemic, will intensify the level of preparedness, situational awareness, and rapid responsiveness required of every health care professional in modern times. Health professionals serving equity-impacted communities, in particular, will benefit from expanded learning environments that impart new competencies in managing a full complement of both typical health problems and inevitable community emergencies. The clinical and disaster simulation facilities of New York Medical College have served the needs of the 17th District as well as hospitals, healthcare professionals, governmental staff and leaders, law enforcement, fire service, first responders and educational professionals Statewide from Buffalo to Long Island. The Clinical Skills and Simulation Center (CSSC) is an innovative training environment that promotes inter-professional collaboration, teaching and assessment of health professions students in an authentic setting. The programming offered by the CSSC creates a bridge between the academic and clinical community through interprofessional training opportunities, faculty development initiatives, and exercises that impact in patient safety and healthcare outcomes. The Center for Disaster Medicine has been a leader in the fight against pandemics, mass casualty incidents, terrorism, public health emergencies and natural disasters. The Center combines NYMC’s globally recognized assets, expertise and research findings encompassing natural disasters, terrorism, operational and tactical medicine and public health preparedness, with competence in the unique needs of children, persons with disabilities, climate change, equity in preparedness and response and healthcare systems preparedness. The 7 Dana Road, Valhalla, N.Y. building is owned and operated by New York Medical College. The project will include only interior renovation and alteration. There will be no external building work and no alteration of grounds or adjacent structures. The Scope will include three aspects: Expansion and modernization of the Clinical Simulation Center; Expansion of the Disaster Simulation Center; and Relocation and Expansion of the Disaster Medicine Offices. The projected timeline for the project is 21 months not including pre-planning prior to award. In addition to construction described the project will also include purchase of moveable equipment to include high-fidelity simulation mannequins, durable medical and emergency response equipment, special effects and standard audio-video monitoring and recording, related computer servers and software non-expendable equipment items, with a useful life of more than one year that can be readily shifted from place to place without requiring a change in the utilities or structural characteristics of the facility.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).