About Us

VIEMS is dedicated to continually improving pediatric care and is working to ensure that every child in the territory will be given proper medical care. Since then VIEMSC Program’s focus is on implementation of the grant’s performance measures, in this section the program’s goals and objectives are organized by the Performance Measure.

Goals

Goal 1:

Expand the uptake of pediatric readiness in EDs by establishing a standardized pediatric readiness recognition program for hospitals, designating pediatric emergency care coordinators (PECCs) in hospitals, and ensuring staff weigh and record children’s weight in kilograms.

Goal 2:

Improve pediatric readiness in prehospital systems by establishing a standardized pediatric readiness recognition program for prehospital emergency medical services (EMS) agencies, increasing the number of PECCs in EMS agencies, and increasing the number of prehospital EMS agencies that have a process for skills-checking on the use of pediatric equipment.

Goal 3:

Increase pediatric disaster readiness in both hospital EDs and prehospital EMS agencies by ensuring that disaster plans address the needs of children.

Goal 4:

Prioritize and advance family partnership and leadership in efforts to improve EMSC systems of care, by including and engaging family representatives who can speak to the emergency care needs of children in their community while participating on State EMSC Advisory Committees