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Emergency Medical Services for Children

The Emergency Medical Services for Children program provides grants to States or accredited medical schools to support programs that expand and improve emergency medical services for children. The program's ultimate goal is to reduce child and youth morbidity and mortality resulting from severe illness or trauma.

Rating

What This Rating Means

NOT PERFORMING
Results Not Demonstrated

A rating of Results Not Demonstrated (RND) indicates that a program has not been able to develop acceptable performance goals or collect data to determine whether it is performing.
  • The program has a clear purpose. It works with States and schools of Medicine to develop and evaluate improved procedures and protocols for treating children. The program's primary goal is to reduce child and youth morbidity resulting from severe illness or trauma.
  • The program has not demonstrated any health impact. It has not developed long-term measures that focus on health outcomes or that reflect the purpose of the program.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Developing methodology and making arrangements with AHRQ to obtain data for newly approved long-term and annual measures.

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