Indiana EMSC

Indiana EMSC EMSC focuses on improving the quality of emergency care for children, and seeks to integrate children's interests into the existing EMS system.

Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC) is a federal program designed to reduce pediatric morbidity and mortality as a result of severe injury and illness. EMSC was first established in the 1980s. Housed under the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau, provides competitive grant funding for state wide initiatives and pediatric research. Between 1996 and 2005 Indiana EMSC worked with the state EMS commission to standardize and update pediatric equipment for BLS and ALS provider transport vehicles, partnered with the Kiwanis to deploy Broselow equipped bags, and provided multiple novel educational opportunities for prehospital providers. However, due to lack of funding, the program ceased to exist in 2005. In 2006 the Institute of Medicine (IOM) publishes “Growing Pains” citing pediatric patients comprising 27% of emergency visits; however, many hospitals and EMS agencies were not well equipped to handle pediatric patients. Indiana has 1,577,629 children between the ages of 0-17 years of age, comprising 25% of it’s population. IEMSC was restablished with state partnership grant funding in 2009 under the direction of Dr. Elizabeth Weinstein.

ED PECCS, please register for this webinar to learn about the newly released guidlines and prepare for the NPRP assessme...
01/29/2026

ED PECCS, please register for this webinar to learn about the newly released guidlines and prepare for the NPRP assessment launching in March.

NEW Pediatric Readiness Guidelines for a NEW National Assessment webinar on Feb. 12 at 1 pm CT. We encourage ED nurses, physicians, and administrators to attend. In this session, you will learn about:
🔹The latest updates to the Pediatric Readiness guidelines
🔹How to prepare for the upcoming national assessment

Register now: https://emscimprovement.center/education-and-resources/webinars/

New guidelines now available. Please share with ED Clinicians all over Indiana.
01/29/2026

New guidelines now available. Please share with ED Clinicians all over Indiana.

New guidelines means a new nationwide assessment. Learn what’s new and get ready for the next Pediatric Readiness assessment, opening March 2026!

https://pedsready.org/

01/20/2026

For EMS and fire-rescue agencies: A three-part EMS webinar series is being developed in collaboration with National Association of EMTs but open to all, launching in late February and offering continuing education. These national sessions will focus on Prehospital Pediatric Readiness Project 2024 Nationwide Assessment results, child abuse and maltreatment in recognition of Child Abuse Awareness Month (April), and pediatric cervical spine management during an EMSC Day webinar on May 20. Keep an eye out for registration details.

For EDs: The 2026 Pediatric Readiness Education Series will kick off Feb. 19 as a free, national, monthly webinar series...
01/20/2026

For EDs: The 2026 Pediatric Readiness Education Series will kick off Feb. 19 as a free, national, monthly webinar series offering nursing continuing education. Delivered through a collaboration between the EMSC Innovation and Improvement Center and the Texas Pediatric Readiness Education Series, this initiative builds on the success of the Texas-led program. Each one-hour session features national experts and focuses on high-impact pediatric topics such as airway management, mental and behavioral health, traumatic brain injury, and pain and vital sign reassessment. Register here

The mission of the EIIC is to optimize outcomes for children across the emergency care continuum by leveraging quality improvement science and multidisciplinary, multisystem collaboration.

01/14/2026

Email from EMSC Innovation and Improvement Center View this email as a webpage   Sign Up Now for the Collaborative Launching Jan. 20!   The 2026 EMSC National Pediatric Readiness Quality Initiative (N

01/12/2026

Last night's episode of included 2 cases representing complex pediatric issues. Of course... EMSC offers clinical resources for both:

🌡️ Febrile infants: PECARN's latest research on infants 0-28 days old https://ow.ly/A4bN50XU1xs + an MD Calc tool for infants 29-60 days https://ow.ly/aqMA50XU1xk

✋ Suspected child abuse: a full toolkit https://ow.ly/wlXm50XU1xm

12/11/2025

The EMSC Program is launching the next cohort of the National Pediatric Readiness Quality Initiative (NPRQI) Collaborative (formerly known as the Pediatric Readiness Quality Collaborative or PRQC). This FREE collaborative will help ED-based teams develop or strengthen existing pediatric QI plans and in doing so, help them improve their
Pediatric Readiness--just in time for the 2026 National Pediatric Readiness Project Assessment!
The collaborative kicks off in January and is designed specifically for smaller EDs. Participating sites will gain access to NPRQI, a userfriendly platform that tracks 28 pediatric quality metrics, along with expert QI coaching, tailored intervention bundles, and practical tools to support initiatives in head trauma, pain assessment, su***de screening and management, and
abnormal vital signs reassessment. To learn more or register, visit emscimprovement.center/collaboratives/nprqi/.

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