| ASPR |
The Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response |
| ASPR cooperative agreement funding |
Any funding awarded to a recipient or awarded to a sub-recipient. An activity is considered supported by ASPR cooperative agreement funding if it is: 1) fully funded by the
Hospital Association COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement; 2) partially funded by this cooperative agreement and by the facility or other entity; or 3) supported by allowable staff positions fully- or partially-funded by cooperative agreement funding |
| ASPR-funded |
An activity is considered ASPR-funded if it is: 1) fully funded by the
Hospital Association COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement; 2) partially funded by this cooperative agreement and by the facility or other health care entity; or 3) supported by allowable staff positions fully- or partially-funded by this cooperative agreement funding |
| Data Entity |
The source organization reporting a particular Data Point |
| Data Point |
Individual data element reported by a Hospital Association or its sub-recipient used to calculate or assess the Program Performance Measure |
| Facility/ Organization |
This term applies to the functional organization of a sub-recipient that receives a sub-award from a Hospital Association through the
Hospital Association COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement that provides care services to patients, regardless of sub-recipient type. These include acute care hospitals, specialty care centers, outpatient/ambulatory care (includes primary care clinics, urgent care centers, dialysis, community health centers, etc.), home and residential care (includes long-term care, home health agencies, skilled nursing facilities, etc.), EMS/Pre-Hospital (also includes 911/Public Safety Answering Points (PSAP)), support services (pharmacies, blood banks, medical supply chain), hospital systems, and other health care entities on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic |
| Health Care Worker |
A health care worker is any worker who provides clinical health care services (i.e., doctors, nurses, laboratory technicians, x-ray technicians, EMS, etc.) |
| HPP |
The Hospital Preparedness Program |
| Infection Control |
Infection control prevents or limits the spread of infection in health care settings and includes a range of activities such as:
- training for health care worker safety when caring for a COVID-19 patient (e.g., Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) donning/doffing, safe treatment protocols),
- assessing and updating physical infrastructure (e.g., minor retrofitting and alteration of inpatient care areas for enhance infection control donning/doffing rooms),
- reconfiguring patient flow in emergency departments to provide isolation capacity for Persons Under Investigation (PUIs) for COVID-19 and other potentially infectious patients, expansion of telemedicine and telehealth for purposes of infection control,
- purchasing of or preservation strategies for PPE optimization in accordance with CDC guidelines, and/or other activities in accordance with CDC guidelines for Transmission-based Precautions9
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| PPE |
PersonalProtectiveEquipment |
| PSAP |
Public Safety Answering Point |
| PUI |
Persons Under Investigation |
| Program Performance Measure |
The national-level performance measure used by ASPR to monitor and evaluate the performance of the
Hospital Association COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement. Result is typically calculated by ASPR based on Data Points reported by Hospital Associations sub-recipients |
| Recipient |
For this cooperative agreement, recipients are state/jurisdictional Hospital Associations who receive awards from ASPR’s Hospital Preparedness Program through the
Hospital Association COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement. Formal definitions of recipients can be found in the Code of Federal Regulations (2 CFR—Part 200)10 |
| Sub-recipient |
Acute care hospitals, specialty care centers, outpatient/ambulatory care, home and residential care, EMS/Pre-Hospital, support services, and other health care entities that receive a sub-award from a Hospital Association through the
Hospital Association COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement. Formal definitions of sub-recipients can be found in the Code of Federal Regulations (2 CFR—Part 200)11 |
| Support Services Worker |
Workers who provide support services that allow those in the health care sector to function, including environmental health workers, food preparation workers, maintenance workers, etc. |
| Triage |
The sorting out and classification of patients or casualties to determine priority of need and proper place of treatment. During infectious disease outbreaks, triage is particularly important to separate patients likely to be infected with the pathogen of concern.12For the purposes of these measures, activities may include rapid identification and isolation of a patient, approaches for the assessment, transport, and treatment of persons suspected or confirmed to have COVID-19, alternative or innovative models to reconfigure patient flow or transition to inpatient care, identify alternate care sites (on facility grounds or within close proximity) and additional sites (offsite) for sub-acute care patients to increase capacity, training and technical support to EMS agencies and 9-1-1/Public Safety Answering Points on routing patients to the appropriate care setting, evolving protocols related to the dispatch of EMS for COVID-19 suspected patients, creation alternate care sites (e.g., temporary structures, etc.) to provide surge capacity for patient care |
