Reducing Loss to Follow-up after Failure to Pass Newborn Hearing Screening

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,...

Eligibility for this funding opportunity is limited to those current grantees/awardees with project periods ending August 31, 2012 and states/jurisdictions which do not have HRSA federal funds to support their newborn hearing screening program at this time.

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