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Emergency - Trauma Care and Stroke

Emergency - Trauma Care

There are significant gaps in our trauma and emergency health care delivery systems, and trauma is the leading killer of Americans under the age of 44. The CNS have worked tirelessly to urge Congress to provide the full funding for trauma and emergency care regionalization programs, which will support grants to states to improve critically needed state‐wide trauma care systems and pilot projects to develop models for regionalizing emergency care. As recommended by the National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine) in its groundbreaking 2006 report, “the objective of regionalization is to improve patient outcomes by directing patients to facilities with optimal capabilities of any given type of illness or injury.”

Key Resource Links:

ASPR National Guidance for Healthcare System Preparedness, January 2012

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Injury Prevention & Control: Data & Statistics (WISQARSTM)

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Office of Public Health Preparedness & Response

Emergency Care Coordination Center (ECCC)

Federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about EMTALA

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness & Response (ASPR)

Stroke

The CNS is dedicated to reducing the occurrence, disabilities and death associated with stroke. On a regular basis organized neurosurgery participates with various organizations like the Brain Attack Coalition and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to see how we can help facilitate that elected officials have a better understanding of how changes in health care and other public policies can help prevent strokes.

Key Resource Links:

Brain Attack Coalition

National Coalition for Heart and Stroke Research

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

National Stroke Association

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Neurosurgery Joins CDC Coalition Urging Increased Funding for FY22 11.30.21

Nov 30, 2021
The undersigned 140 members of the CDC Coalition and other supporting state and national organizations urge you to include at least the House-passed level of $10.5 billion for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s programs in any final FY 2022 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies appropriations bill.

Neurosurgery Urges Congress to Fund National Concussion Surveillance System 11.18.21

Nov 18, 2021
As you consider appropriations for fiscal year 2022 for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, the undersigned organizations request that you appropriate at least the House Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations level of $2 million to fund the National Concussion Surveillance System.

Neurosurgery Joins Alliance in Objecting to UnitedHealthcare’s Emergency Care Coverage Rule 06.29.21

Jun 29, 2021
The Alliance of Specialty Medicine represents more than 100,000 specialty physicians and is dedicated to the development of sound federal health care policy that fosters patient access to the highest quality specialty care.

Members of the Senate Urge Appropriations to Fund MISSION Zero Program 6.17.21

Jun 17, 2021
We are contacting you today to respectfully request that the Subcommittee include $11.5 million in funding for the Military and Civilian Partnership for the Trauma Readiness Grant program in the FY22 Labor, HHS, Education Appropriations bill.

Neurosurgery Joins Effort Against United Healthcare’s Emergency Care Policy 06.16

Jun 16, 2021
The undersigned organizations write to express deep concerns about UnitedHealthcare’s (UHC) new policy to allow for the retroactive denial of coverage for emergency care, which will have serious medical consequences for patients.

Neurosurgery Urges Senate to Fund Military-Civilian Trauma Program 05.11.21

May 11, 2021
The American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) urge the subcommittee to provide $11.5 million for Fiscal Year 2022 to fund the Military and Civilian Partnership for the Trauma Readiness Grant Program.

Neurosurgery Urges House to Fund Military-Civilian Trauma Program 05.11.21

May 11, 2021
The American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) urge the subcommittee to provide $11.5 million for Fiscal Year 2022 to fund the Military and Civilian Partnership for the Trauma Readiness Grant Program.

Members of Congress Urge Appropriations to Fund MISSION Zero Program 04.27.21

Apr 27, 2021
We respectfully request the inclusion of $11.5 million for the Military and Civilian Partnership for the Trauma Readiness Grant Program authorized in the Pandemic and All Hazards Preparedness and Advancing Innovation Act of 2019 (PAHPAI).

Organized Neurosurgery Urges House to Fund Firearms Research 03.25.21

Mar 25, 2021
As you consider appropriations for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022, the undersigned 202 national, state, and local medical, public health, and research organizations write to ask you to provide $50 million in funding shared evenly between the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to conduct public health research into firearm morbidity and mortality prevention.

Organized Neurosurgery Urges Senate to Fund Firearms Research 03.25.21

Mar 25, 2021
As you consider appropriations for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022, the undersigned 202 national, state, and local medical, public health, and research organizations write to ask you to provide $50 million in funding shared evenly between the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to conduct public health research into firearm morbidity and mortality prevention.

Neurosurgery Supports Senate Bill to Fund Firearms Research 02.16.21

Feb 16, 2021
On behalf of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), AANS/CNS Joint Section on Neurotrauma and Critical Care and AANS/CNS Joint Section on Pediatric Neurological Surgery, representing more than 4,000 practicing neurosurgeons in the United States, we write to support your legislation, H.R. 825, the Gun Violence Prevention Research Act.

Neurosurgery Supports House Bill to Fund Firearms Research 02.16.21

Feb 16, 2021
On behalf of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), AANS/CNS Joint Section on Neurotrauma and Critical Care and AANS/CNS Joint Section on Pediatric Neurological Surgery, representing more than 4,000 practicing neurosurgeons in the United States, we write to support your legislation, H.R. 825, the Gun Violence Prevention Research Act.

Neurosurgery Asks House to Fund MISSION Zero Program 02.11.21

Feb 11, 2021
On behalf of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), we write to request $11.5 million in funding for the Military and Civilian Partnership for the Trauma Readiness Grant Program in the Fiscal Year 2022 Senate Labor, Health & Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Appropriations legislation.

Neurosurgery Asks Senate to Fund MISSION Zero Program 02.11.21

Feb 11, 2021
On behalf of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), we write to request $11.5 million in funding for the Military and Civilian Partnership for the Trauma Readiness Grant Program in the Fiscal Year 2022 Senate Labor, Health & Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Appropriations legislation.

Neurosurgery Joins Effort in Asking Senate for Concussion Surveillance Funding 02.03.21

Feb 03, 2021
As you consider appropriations for fiscal year 2022 for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, the undersigned organizations request that you appropriate $5 million to fund the National Concussion Surveillance System, authorized by the Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Program Reauthorization Act of 2018 (Pub. Law 115-377).

Neurosurgery Sends Letter of Support to Senate L-HHS-E Appropriations in Support of Funding for National Concussion Surveillance System 2.2.21

Feb 02, 2021
On behalf of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) and the AANS/CNS Joint Section on Neurotrauma & Critical Care, representing more than 4,000 practicing neurosurgeons in the United States, we write to support funding for the National Concussion Surveillance System.

Neurosurgery Sends Letter of Support to House L-HHS-E Appropriations in Support of Funding for National Concussion Surveillance System 2.2.21

Feb 02, 2021
On behalf of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) and the AANS/CNS Joint Section on Neurotrauma & Critical Care, representing more than 4,000 practicing neurosurgeons in the United States, we write to support funding for the National Concussion Surveillance System.

Neurosurgery Urges Congress to Fund Trauma Grant Program 11.20.20

Nov 20, 2020
On behalf of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), representing more than 4,000 practicing in the United States, we write to support funding for military and civilian trauma readiness.

Neurosurgery Urges Congress to Fund National Concussion Surveillance System 09.14.20

Sep 14, 2020
As you consider appropriations for fiscal year 2021 for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, the undersigned organizations request that you appropriate $5 million to fund the National Concussion Surveillance System, authorized by the Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Program Reauthorization Act of 2018 (Pub. Law 115-377).

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