Notice2024-28740
Request for Information on Hospital Preparedness Program Funding Formula
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Published
December 6, 2024
Issuing agencies
Health and Human Services DepartmentStrategic Preparedness and Response Administration
Abstract
In accordance with section 319C-2 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act, the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) distributes Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP) cooperative agreement funding to recipients using a statutorily required formula. ASPR is seeking comment on the risk component of the HPP funding formula to inform potential future changes to the formula.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 235 (Friday, December 6, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 97014-97015]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-28740]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response
Request for Information on Hospital Preparedness Program Funding
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AGENCY: Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR),
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with section 319C-2 of the Public Health Service
(PHS) Act, the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response
(ASPR) distributes Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP) cooperative
agreement funding to recipients using a statutorily required formula.
ASPR is seeking comment on the risk component of the HPP funding
formula to inform potential future changes to the formula.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be received by December 20, 2024.
ASPR will not reply individually to responders but will consider all
comments submitted by the deadline.
ADDRESSES: Please submit all responses to the following email address:
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#d098808090b8b8a3feb7bfa6"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="82cad2d2c2eaeaf1ace5edf4">[email protected]</span></a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jennifer Hannah, Director, Office of
Health Care Readiness (OHCR) via <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#e1ab848f8f88878493cfa9808f8f8089a1898992cf868e97"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="c288a7acacaba4a7b0ec8aa3acaca3aa82aaaab1eca5adb4">[email protected]</span></a> or call: 202-
245-0722.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: HPP is a cooperative agreement program that,
through its support for health care coalitions, prepares the nation's
health care delivery system to save lives during emergencies that
exceed the day-to-day capacity of health care and emergency response
systems. HPP is the primary source of federal funding for health care
preparedness and response. HPP provides funding to 62 recipients,
including the governments of all 50 states, eight U.S. territories and
freely associated states, the District of Columbia, Chicago, New York
City, and Los Angeles County. For the purposes of this Request for
Information (RFI), ``the health care delivery system'' refers to all
organizations and persons whose mission is to promote, restore,
optimize, or maintain health.
Section 319C-2 of the PHS Act requires ASPR to distribute HPP
funding based on the following factors: a required base amount
determined by the HHS Secretary, a required adjustment based on
population, and an amount based on significant unmet need and degree of
risk.
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The risk component accounts for health care risks and hazards
capable of creating a surge for the U.S. health care delivery system.
ASPR calculates the health care surge-specific risk component using
publicly available national datasets to account for three
subcomponents:
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1. Threat, or the likelihood of a particular threat event
occurring, quantified by the number of events occurring within a
recipient's jurisdiction (e.g., the ``flood'' threat parameter is
comprised of the number of flooding events occurring within a
recipient's jurisdiction).
2. Vulnerability, or a community's or communities' access to health
care services and surge capacity (or lack thereof), quantified by
proportion-based public health metrics (e.g., the ``health care
access'' vulnerability parameter is comprised of the number of staffed
hospital beds per capita by recipient).
3. Consequence, or the potential negative impacts associated with a
particular threat/hazard occurring, quantified by the historic number
of casualties per event associated with each threat/hazard (e.g., the
``flood'' consequence parameter captures the expected number of
casualties associated with a flooding event).
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Information Requested
Please reference the tables found at <a href="https://aspr.hhs.gov/HealthCareReadiness/HPP/Pages/rfi.aspx">https://aspr.hhs.gov/HealthCareReadiness/HPP/Pages/rfi.aspx</a> to answer the following
questions.
(1) What, if any, feedback do you have regarding the current
datasets? For example, are there any current datasets you recommend
retiring? Please specify why and if you would recommend any
replacements.
(2) What, if any, additional datasets would you recommend including
in the risk calculation? Please specify the data source and associated
risk subcomponent (i.e., threat, vulnerability, consequence). You may
recommend adding one of the ``potential datasets'' included in the
tables found at <a href="https://aspr.hhs.gov/HealthCareReadiness/HPP/Pages/rfi.aspx">https://aspr.hhs.gov/HealthCareReadiness/HPP/Pages/rfi.aspx</a> and/or suggest new datasets for consideration.
(3) What, if any, additional considerations would you recommend
including in the calculation of risk (e.g., threats that are not
included in the current datasets)? Please also include datasets that
can be used to measure these factors.
You may address as many or as few questions as you choose. You may
provide additional feedback relevant to the HPP funding formula. When
responding, please identify the corresponding question. Datasets used
for the risk calculation must be national in scope and either publicly
available or readily available to the federal government.
This RFI is for planning purposes only and should not be construed
as a policy, solicitation for applications, or as an obligation on the
part of the government to provide support for any ideas in response to
it. ASPR will use the information submitted in response to this RFI at
its discretion and will not provide comments to any of your
submissions. The government is under no obligation to acknowledge
receipt of the information received or provide feedback with respect to
any information submitted. No proprietary, classified, confidential, or
sensitive information should be included in a response. The contents of
all submissions may be made available to the public in the future.
Submitted materials should therefore be publicly available or be able
to be made public.
The Administrator and Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and
Response of ASPR, Dawn O'Connell, having reviewed and approved this
document, authorizes Adam DeVore, who is the Federal Register liaison,
to electronically sign this document for purposes of publication in the
Federal Register.
Adam DeVore,
Federal Register Liaison, Administration for Strategic Preparedness and
Response.
[FR Doc. 2024-28740 Filed 12-5-24; 8:45 am]
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