HCC Funding Opportunity #1 Grantee shall perform activities to support regional HPP implementation, including, but not limited to sustaining regional HCCs; providing EMTF administrative support and project management; and assisting DSHS with the administration, planning, and evaluation of services related to HPP and EMTF. Grantee shall perform services in support of DSHS and the cooperative agreement from the ASPR HPP Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 2025-FFY 2029 Cooperative Agreements. Health Care Preparedness and Response Capabilities for Health Care Coalitions, set forth in Exhibit N, 2017-2022 Health Care Preparedness and Response Capabilities for HealthCare Coalitions, outlines the high-level objectives that the nation’s health care delivery system, including HCCs and individual health care organizations, should undertake to prepare for, respond to, and recover from emergencies. These capabilities illustrate the range of preparedness and response activities that, if conducted, represent the ideal state of readiness in the United States. A. Grantee's HPP activities must focus on the implementation of all the following capabilities: 1. Foundation for Health Care and Medical Readiness Goal: The jurisdiction has a sustainable HCC that can identify hazards and risks and prioritize and address gaps through planning, training, exercising, and acquiring resources. 2. Health Care and Medical Response Coordination Goal: Healthcare organizations, HCCs, and their jurisdictions collaborate to share and analyze information, manage resources, and coordinate strategies to deliver acute medical care to all populations during emergencies and planned events. 3. Continuity of Health Care Service Delivery Goal: Healthcare organizations, with support from HCCs, provide uninterrupted medical care to all populations in the face of damaged or disabled healthcare infrastructure. Healthcare workers are well-trained, well-educated, and well-equipped to care for patients during emergencies. Simultaneous response and recovery operations result in a return to normal or improved operations. 4. Medical Surge Goal: Healthcare organizations including hospitals, EMS providers, and other out-of-hospital providers, to deliver timely and efficient care to their patients even when the demand for healthcare services exceeds available supply. B. Grantee shall use awarded funding to build and sustain the HPP capabilities through regional HCCs. Texas HCCs aligned with the 22 TSA regions (see Exhibit H, Trauma Service Areas). C. Grantee shall coordinate medical readiness with: 1. Governmental jurisdictions; 2. Communities; 3. Health care and emergency management entity; and 4. Other ESF-8 partners to plan for preventing, protecting against, responding to, mitigating, and rapidly recovering from emergencies and disasters through planning, training, exercising, and the acquisition of appropriate equipment and supplies. D. Grantee shall serve as the lead organization for each HCC within its region or jurisdiction. Additionally, Grantee shall ensure active participation in the HCC, at a minimum, from the following member types: 1. Hospitals; 2. EMS; 3. Emergency Management Organizations; 4. Local Public Health Agencies; 5. DSHS Public Health Regions; 6. Dialysis treatment facilities; 7. Long Term Care; and 8. Nursing facilities.
