OpportunityTitle: Reducing Loss to Follow-up after Failure to Pass Newborn Hearing Screening
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: Eligibility for this funding opportunity is limited to those current grantees/awardees with project periods ending March 31, 2012 and States/Jurisdictions which do not have HRSA Federal funds to support their newborn hearing screening program at this time.
Description: This announcement solicits proposals for reducing the loss to follow-up of infants who have not passed a physiologic newborn hearing screening examination prior to discharge from the newborn nursery by utilizing specifically targeted and measurable interventions. The purpose of this funding opportunity is to further focus efforts to improve the loss to documentation/loss to follow-up by utilizing specific interventions to achieve measurable improvement in the numbers of infants who receive appropriate and timely follow-up. Those states that have not participated in a Learning Collaborative, to date, will be required to participate in the Learning Collaboratives during the 2012-2014 project period.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: Contact HRSA Call Center at 877-Go4-HRSA/877-464-4772;301-998-7373 or email
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