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​4.0 Training Measures

Operational Intent: These performance measures examine how activities have been implemented to achieve the following outcome:

  • Enhance infection control and triage training for health care professionals and other support services workers​

4.1 Required Training Measures​


Program Performance Measure
Data Point​​
Data​ Entity and Timing
Calculation
PM 10A: Number of hospital associations providing cooperative agreement- supported training or resources on COVID-19 infection control with Hospital Association COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement funding​ Did your hospital association provide COVID-19 specific trainings or develop resources on infection control utilizing Hospital Association COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement funds between April 10, 2021 and April 9, 2022? (Select all that apply)

Infection control:
  • PPE optimization protocols, extended use, and reuse
  •  Environmental cleaning and waste management
  •  Transmission-based precautions
  •  Handwashing hygiene
  •  Infection control protocols for labs (e.g., specimen collection including nasopharyngeal swabbing for both diagnostic and clinical testing, serology testing for plasma treatment, etc.)
  •  PPE donning and doffing procedures (e.g., universal masking etiquette)
  •  Safe treatment protocols
  •  Other (free response)​
Hospital association

(collected at middle of project year and end of project year)
N/A

​PM 10B: Number of hospital associations providing cooperative agreement- supported training or resources on COVID-19 triage with Hospital Association COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement funding
Did your hospital association provide COVID-19 specific trainings or develop resources on triage utilizing Hospital Association COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement funds, between April 10, 2021 and April 9, 2022? (Select all that apply)

Triage:
​​
  • Assessment, transport, and treatment of COVID-19 suspected or confirmed patients
  • In-take protocols
  • Rapid identification and isolation of a PUI
  • Prioritization of clinical interventions
  • 911/PSAP routing of patients to appropriate care settings
  • Other (free response)
Hospital association

(collected at middle of project year and end of project year)​

N/A​
PM 11: Number of trainings on COVID-19 infection control practices supported per hospital association with Hospital Association COVID- 19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement funding
​Total number of trainings on COVID-19 infection control supported by Hospital Association COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement funds (directly rather than through funding sub-recipients)
Hospital association
(collected at ​end of proje​ct year)​​
​N/A​

​PM 12: Number of trainings on COVID-19 triage supported per hospital association with Hospital Association COVID- 19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement funding
​Total number of trainings on COVID-19 triage supported by Hospital Association COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement funds (directly rather than through funding sub-recipients)
Hospital association
(collected at end of proje​ct year)​​

​N/A

​PM 13A: Number of facilities or organizations pro​viding COVID-19 infection control training utilizing Hospital Association COVID- 19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement funding
Did your facility or organization provide COVID-19 specific trainings on infection control utilizing Hospital Association COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement funds between April 10, 2021 and April 9, 2022? (Select all that apply)

Infection control:
  • PPE optimization protocols, extended use, and reuse
  • Environmental cleaning and waste management
  • Transmission-based precautions
  • Handwashing hygiene
  • Infection control protocols for labs (e.g., specimen collection including nasopharyngeal swabbing for both diagnostic and clinical testing, serology testing for plasma treatment, etc.)
  • PPE donning and doffing procedures (e.g., universal masking etiquette)
  • Safe treatment protocols
  • Other (free response)

Sub-recipient association
(collected at  end of p​roje​ct year)​​
​N/A

​PM 13B: Number of facilities or organizations providing COVID-19 triage training utilizing Hospital Association COVID- 19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement funding
​Did your facility or organization provide COVID-19 specific trainings on triage utilizing Hospital Association COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement funds between April 10, 2021 and April 9, 2022? (Select all that apply)

Triage:
  • Assessment, transport, and treatment of COVID-19 suspected or confirmed patients
  • In-take protocols
  • Rapid identification and isolation of a PUI
  • Prioritization of clinical interventions
  • 911/PSAP routing of patients to appropriate care settings
  • Other (free response)

Sub-recipient

(collected at end of project year)

​N/A

​PM 14: Number of trainings on COVID-19 infection control practices supported per sub- recipient with Hospital Association COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement funding
​Total number of trainings on COVID-19 infection control supported by Hospital Association COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement funds
Sub-recipient association
(collected at end of project year)
​N/A

​PM 15: Number of trainings on COVID-19 triage supported per sub-recipient with Hospital Association COVID- 19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement funding
​Total number of trainings on COVID-19 triage supported by Hospital Association COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement funds​
Sub-recipient

(collected at end of project year)​​
​N/A

​PM 16: Changes attributed to training funded by the Hospital Association COVID- 19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement funding
​What specific clinical or operational modifications were made by your facility or organization as a result (fully or partially) of training in infection control and triage supported by Hospital Association COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement funds?
​Sub-recipient

(collected at end of project year)

​N/A