Wednesday, April 2, 2025
4/2/2025
Idaho Public Health Preparedness and Response HPP Cooperative Agreement Application - The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare (IDHW) Division of Public Health houses the Public Health Preparedness and Response Section (PHPR). The PHPR Section provides oversight and coordination for the Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) Program and the Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP), funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR). The HPP program utilizes ASPR funding to build and maintain Health Care Coalitions (HCCs). To better meet the intent of the grant to build acute care medical surge capacity through the maintenance and growth of strong HCCs, Idaho restructured boundaries for Budget Period 1 2019 to create three Regional HCCs (RHCCs). The coalition boundaries currently capture health care systems, referral patterns, and ASPR’s overarching vision of regional acute care response whereas in the past, the boundaries mirrored local public health districts. The goal of the HPP funding is to build and maintain preparedness, readiness, response, and recovery capacity in Idaho, particularly for acute medical surge events. Idaho will continue to take advantage of the budget period’s specialty focuses and build the state’s health care system capacity. The Bureau of EMS and Preparedness houses the PHPR Section, which is responsible for management and administration of the HPP program. The HPP program uses ASPR’s four capabilities, core functions, and associated activities to serve as the foundation to monitor and evaluate programmatic progress. The HPP program provides subgrants to the three hospitals to act as the fiduciary for each of the HCCs. The Regional Readiness and Response Coordinators (RRRCs) are the primary contact between local partners, local public health districts, and IDHW. In addition to their role as core members of their regional coalition, their efforts support incident management activities associated with Emergency Support Function 8 (ESF-8), Public Health and Medical Services. The PHPR Section will continue to update plans to strengthen and enhance health care readiness by collaborating with the RHCCs to increase the ability of coalition partners to respond as a unified health care system to support coordination response throughout the state of Idaho. Specific programmatic outcomes include timely assessment and sharing of essential elements of information, timely implementation of intervention and control measures, timely communication of situational awareness and risk information, continuity of emergency operations management throughout the surge of an emergency or incident, timely coordination, and support of response activities with partners, and providing a systematic approach to improving Idaho medical surge response capacity.
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).