Emergency - Trauma Care and Stroke

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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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AANS and CNS Sign Letter of Support to Senate L-HHS Appropriations Committee for Military & Civilian Partnership for Trauma Readiness (MISSION Zero) Grant Program 5.22.20
May 22, 2020
As you consider Labor Health and Human Services appropriations for Fiscal Year FY (2021), the Trauma Coalition, a broad group of organizations representing the nations frontline trauma providers, writes to ask the Committee to provide $11.5 million in funding for the Military and Civilian Partnership for the Trauma Readiness Grant Program.

Letter to Senate Appropriations Committee in Support of FY 2021 Funding for MISSION Zero Act
Mar 31, 2020
As you prepare the Fiscal Year 2021 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill, 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 [Public Law No. 116-22].

Neurosurgery Urges Senate to Fund Research on Firearms Safety 03.30.20
Mar 30, 2020
Dear Chairwomen Lowey and DeLauro and Ranking Members Granger and Cole: As you consider appropriations for Fiscal Year (FY) 2021, the undersigned 200 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.

AANS and CNS Endorse Good Samaritan Health Professionals Act 3.18.20
Mar 18, 2020
On behalf of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), we are pleased to support H.R. 6283, the Good Samaritan Health Professionals Act of 2020, and extend our offer to help advance this critical legislation.

AANS and CNS Join Other Groups in Sending Letter to U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations and Labor, Health and Human Services, Education Appropriations Subcommittee in Support of MISSION ZERO Act,
Feb 12, 2020
As you consider Labor, Health and Human Services appropriations for Fiscal Year FY (2021), the Trauma Coalition, a broad group of organizations representing the nations frontline trauma providers, writes to ask you to provide $11.5 million in funding for the Military and Civilian Partnership for the Trauma Readiness Grant Program.

AANS and CNS Join Other Groups in Sending Letter to U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations and Labor, Health and Human Services, Education Appropriations Subcommittee in Support of
Feb 12, 2020
As you consider Labor, Health and Human Services appropriations for Fiscal Year FY (2021), the Trauma Coalition, a broad group of organizations representing the nations frontline trauma providers, writes to ask you to provide $11.5 million in funding for the Military and Civilian Partnership for the Trauma Readiness Grant Program.

AANS and CNS Endorse National Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month 10.09.19
Oct 09, 2019
On behalf of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), we would like to express our sincere appreciation and gratitude for introducing S. Res. 329, designating September 2019, as “National Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month.”

Organized Neurosurgery Comments on NINDS Strategic Plan 9.30.19
Sep 30, 2019
Organized Neurosurgery Comments on NINDS Strategic Plan 93019

Neurosurgery Joins Other Medical Groups in Sending Letter to U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations Regarding CDC Gun Violence Prevention Research 02.21.19
Feb 21, 2019
Dear Chairmen Shelby and Blunt, Vice Chairman Leahy, and Ranking Member Murray: As you consider appropriations for Fiscal Year (FY) 2020, the undersigned 166 national, state, and local medical, public health, and research organizations write to ask you to provide $50 million in funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to conduct public health research into firearm morbidity and mortality prevention.

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