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4.0 Training Measures

Operational Intent: These performance measures examine how activities have been implemented to achieve the following outcome:

  • Enhance infection control and triage training for health care professionals and other support services workers

4.1 Required Training Measures

Program Performance MeasureData PointData Entity and TimingCalculation
PM 10A: Number of hospital associations providing cooperative agreement- supported training or resources on COVID-19 infection control with Hospital Association COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement funding

Did your hospital association provide COVID-19 specific trainings or develop resources on infection control utilizing Hospital Association COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement funds between April 10, 2021 and April 9, 2022? (Select all that apply)
Infection control:

  • PPE optimization protocols, extended use, and reuse

  • Environmental cleaning and waste management

  • Transmission-based precautions

  • Handwashing hygiene

  • Infection control protocols for labs (e.g., specimen collection including nasopharyngeal swabbing for both diagnostic and clinical testing, serology testing for plasma treatment, etc.)

  • PPE donning and doffing procedures (e.g., universal masking etiquette)

  • Safe treatment protocols

  • Other (free response)

Hospital association 
 
(collected at middle of project year and end of project year)
N/A
PM 10B: Number of hospital associations providing cooperative agreement- supported training or resources on COVID-19 triage with Hospital Association COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement funding

Did your hospital association provide COVID-19 specific trainings or develop resources on triage utilizing Hospital Association COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement funds, between April 10, 2021 and April 9, 2022? (Select all that apply) 
Triage:

  • Assessment, transport, and treatment of COVID-19 suspected or confirmed patients

  • In-take protocols

  • Rapid identification and isolation of a PUI

  • Prioritization of clinical interventions

  • 911/PSAP routing of patients to appropriate care settings

  • Other (free response)

Hospital association
 
(collected at middle of project year and end of project year) 
 
N/A
PM 11: Number of trainings on COVID-19 infection control practices supported per hospital association with Hospital Association COVID- 19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement fundingTotal number of trainings on COVID-19 infection control supported by Hospital Association COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement funds (directly rather than through funding sub-recipients)
Hospital association
(collected at end of project year)
N/A 
 
PM 12: Number of trainings on COVID-19 triage supported per hospital association with Hospital Association COVID- 19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement fundingTotal number of trainings on COVID-19 triage supported by Hospital Association COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement funds (directly rather than through funding sub-recipients)
Hospital association
(collected at end of project year)
N/A 
 
PM 13A: Number of facilities or organizations providing COVID-19 infection control training utilizing Hospital Association COVID- 19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement funding

Did your facility or organization provide COVID-19 specific trainings on infection control utilizing Hospital Association COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement funds between April 10, 2021 and April 9, 2022? (Select all that apply)
Infection control: 

  • PPE optimization protocols, extended use, and reuse

  • Environmental cleaning and waste management

  • Transmission-based precautions

  • Handwashing hygiene

  • Infection control protocols for labs (e.g., specimen collection including nasopharyngeal swabbing for both diagnostic and clinical testing, serology testing for plasma treatment, etc.)

  • PPE donning and doffing procedures (e.g., universal masking etiquette)

  • Safe treatment protocols

  • Other (free response)

Sub-recipient association
(collected at end of project year)
N/A 
 
PM 13B: Number of facilities or organizations providing COVID-19 triage training utilizing Hospital Association COVID- 19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement funding

Did your facility or organization provide COVID-19 specific trainings on triage utilizing Hospital Association COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement funds between April 10, 2021 and April 9, 2022? (Select all that apply) 
Triage:

  • Assessment, transport, and treatment of COVID-19 suspected or confirmed patients

  • In-take protocols

  • Rapid identification and isolation of a PUI

  • Prioritization of clinical interventions

  • 911/PSAP routing of patients to appropriate care settings

  • Other (free response)

Sub-recipient

(collected at end of project year) 
N/A 
 
PM 14: Number of trainings on COVID-19 infection control practices supported per sub- recipient with Hospital Association COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement fundingTotal number of trainings on COVID-19 infection control supported by Hospital Association COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement funds
Sub-recipient association
(collected at end of project year) 
N/A 
 
PM 15: Number of trainings on COVID-19 triage supported per sub-recipient with Hospital Association COVID- 19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement fundingTotal number of trainings on COVID-19 triage supported by Hospital Association COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement fundsSub-recipient 
(collected at end of project year)
N/A 
 
PM 16: Changes attributed to training funded by the Hospital Association COVID- 19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement fundingWhat specific clinical or operational modifications were made by your facility or organization as a result (fully or partially) of training in infection control and triage supported by Hospital Association COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement funds?

Sub-recipient

 
(collected at end of project year)
N/A