Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1995: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session

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Page 38 - These funds have been designated to assist with the construction and equipping of the components of the National Child Protection, Trauma and Research Center. Children's National Medical Center is further pleased to report that the first phase of construction and renovation for the National Child Protection, Trauma and Research Center is underway with one new floor intended to house the Center's research activities nearing completion.
Page 102 - ... conference facility will be integral to the National Center. For example, the information management system will allow the National Center to accumulate and publish cost-effective therapy protocols that can be utilized throughout the country to help bring down costs and improve care. These full package protocols will include treatment beginning with diagnosis and surgery and include therapy and vocational training. While cost saving benefits are obvious, no such complete protocols currently exist....
Page 37 - This pilot program will serve as a national demonstration model for the country by providing economical and efficient health care delivery systems to victimized children and their families.
Page 37 - ... military providers. The study further noted the need to determine all the locations where children receive emergency care, and include those sources in the review process in order to fully and accurately assess the quality of pediatric emergency care at MTFs. Children's National Medical Center recognizes the national and regional need to continue to evaluate current systems and procedures related to emergency medical care for children, and to continue to develop quality assurance criteria in...
Page 191 - Conference is to develop improvements in the procedures by which Federal agencies administer regulatory, benefit, and other Government programs.
Page 37 - Enhancement of trauma response capabilities and the expansion of existing efforts to evaluate current systems and procedures related to emergency medical care for children and develop models for pediatric emergency services. Through its pilot program in child protection. Children's National Medical Center will address in a comprehensive way the root causes of child victimization and will make recommendations for health care providers regionally and nationally. Children's is especially pleased to...
Page 37 - ... for by family members. This can be achieved through the provision of appropriate family-oriented interim care. The new Center will provide the facilities necessary for delivering transitional care through parental education and medical care in a home like environment. Preventing child victimization requires more than case-by-case treatment and even more than class-by-class education. Working on systems, struggling with contextual issues, taking...
Page 102 - ... to reduce the incidence of work related and upper extremity injuries such as repetitive motion or carpal tunnel syndrome. The National Center will allow this program to be expanded to additional businesses throughout the region and will serve as a model for work site injury prevention. The National Center also will train hand therapists in an effort to address the shortage of these professionals. The Center will train occupational and physical therapists and develop a curriculum for this training...
Page 36 - A number of professionals at Children's National Medical Center serve on advisory boards and contribute to the shaping of national policy through frequent testimony before the Congress, and through active participation in the national health care debate. Some of the advisory panels on which hospital personnel serve include the Mayor's Advisory Board on Maternal and Infant Health, the Pulmonary Drugs Committee of the Food and Drug Administration, NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious...
Page 38 - Center, it is supported by a wide range of endorsements from the local community. A good barometer for the level of the wider community's commitment to the National Child Protection Center is found in the results of the first phase of the hospitaFs capital campaign.

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