Improving the Impact of Laboratory Pract

Post Date

April 26th 2013

Application Due Date

June 12th 2013

Dates: Letter of Intent Deadline Date: 5/15/2013 Application Deadline Date: 6/12/2013, 11:59 p.m. U.S. Eastern Standard Time, on www.grants.gov

Funding Opportunity Number

CDC-RFA-OE13-1304

CFDA Number(s)

93.064

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Health

Number of Awards

3

Eligibility Categories

Other

Eligibility Information Eligible applicants that can apply for this funding opportunity are included in this section. Eligible Applicants: ╔ Nonprofit organizations that create LPGs with 501C3 IRS status (other than institution of higher education) ╔ Nonprofit organizations that create LPGs without 501C3 IRS status (other than institution of higher education) ╔ State and local governments or their Bona Fide Agents, if they create voluntary laboratory practice guidelines; (this includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianna Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau) .

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $1500000

• Award Range:

  $0 - $150000

Grant Description

Purpose: This FOA is intended to increase the effectiveness of the model LPGs that have public health impact by defining measures and collecting data to inform better LPG creation/revision, dissemination/promotion, uptake and impact. The intended downstream outcomes are benefits to patient care and public health. The CDC intends these demonstration projects to provide lasting and sustainable institutional knowledge with qualitative methods using free or relatively inexpensive approaches. The awardees will create a permanent organizational culture change from creation and revision of LPGs based upon relatively little data concerning uptake to a standard expectation by staff and volunteers that LPGs should be created based on best available evidence and revised based on measureable data (from metrics) that are shared with the organizationуs LPG authors. The overall intent is to create a scalable, novel approach to measure and increase the impact of LPGs, but with an expectation that eventually the changes would become рbusiness practicesс that would be sustainable and not require continued support by CDC. By collating the lessons learned from as many as three awardeesу efforts, CDC seeks to accelerate the adoption of these business practices among other organizations that create and manage LPGs.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of Health and Human Services

• Office:

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• Agency Contact:

  CDC Procurement and Grants Office
  (PGO) Technical Information Management Section (TIMS)
  Phone: 770-488-2700
  E-mail: pgotim@cdc.gov
  

• Agency Mailing Address:

  Technical Information Management Section (TIMS)

• Agency Email Address:

  pgotim@cdc.gov

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