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Kentucky's Hospital Preparedness Program Cooperative Agreement - This application outlines the Kentucky Department for Public Health’s (KDPH) proposal for the funding opportunity titled, “Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP) Cooperative Agreement EP-U3R-19-001”. KDPH’s Public Health Preparedness Branch has the primary responsibility for managing and fulfilling this cooperative agreement for the Commonwealth of Kentucky. KDPH is committed to the long-term sustainability and growth of strong Healthcare Coalitions (HCC), thereby strengthening and enhancing the state’s acute care medical surge capacity. Kentucky’s strong HPP provides a solid foundation to continue to build the program state-wide through implementing a redesign process focusing on the sustainability and strengthening of HCCs, and ultimately acute care medical surge capacity through the implementation of the four HPP capabilities. Receiving HPP Cooperative Agreement funding will ultimately support this commitment and will serve to strengthen the capability of Kentucky’s health care system to prepare for, respond to, and recover from evolving threats or any all-hazards event that may occur within the Commonwealth. KDPH’s overarching goal is to prepare the health care system and HCCs to respond to emergencies and disasters throughout the state, build resilience among the health care delivery system, and increase the collective ability to maintain and expand health care capacity during medical surge events that overwhelm the capabilities of local communities. Kentucky’s HPP will continue to strengthen health care preparedness and response capabilities through the implementation of select objectives and activities to move toward the ideal state of readiness across the health care system by: • Maintaining and continuing to grow the established HCCs and personnel that support and integrate with member agencies and supporting organizations through a comprehensive redesign process at the HCC and recipient level. • Identifying and addressing issues that may affect access and functional needs of at-risk and vulnerable populations that will impact the demand for health care services. • Implementing a comprehensive planning, training and exercise program through the HCCs to prepare the health care and medical workforce to respond to and recover from an emergency/disaster. • Strengthening plans and systems to maintain situational awareness and continuity of essential public health and health care services and supply chain integrity during emergency response and recovery operations. • Maintaining incident management systems and information sharing platforms with ESF #8 partnering organizations and HCCs for real-time information sharing to maintain situational awareness for a common operating picture following established plans and procedures. • Coordinating emergency public health and health care services response strategies and tracking resource availability throughout all phases of public health and medical-related incidents. • Building and sustaining acute care medical surge capacity for each jurisdiction through a comprehensive planning, training, and exercising program for each HCC. • Reviewing and updating strategies that focus on specialty medical surge and the continuation of essential health care functions and services during an incident. • Maintaining, testing and updating fiscal preparedness processes to ensure funding reaches impacted communities in an expedited manner during an incident. HPP objectives and activities will be advanced through the implementation of work plan activities following the HPP Readiness and Operations Cycle, throughout the period of performance (July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2024). Specific outputs will be achieved through the implementation of the proposed work plan described in this application. KDPH will continue to coordinate with Kentucky’s HCCs, hospitals, local health departments, EMS Agencies, emergency management agencies, and other local, state, and federal ESF #8 partnering agencies
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).