Children's Compassionate Care Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-963
Sponsor: Rep. Pryce, Deborah [R-OH-15]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Ambulatory care
Caregivers
Case management
Child health
Commerce
Communication in medicine
Community health services
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Continuum of care
Cost accounting
Cost effectiveness
Counseling
Critically ill
Curricula
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Family services
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to research
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health counseling
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Higher education
Home care services
Hospital care
Hospitals
Housing and Community Development
Insurance companies
Managed care
Medical education
Medical fees
Medical personnel
Medical records
Medical research
Medical residents
Medically uninsured
Medicare
Nurses
Nursing education
Pain
Pharmaceutical research
Physicians
Psychiatrists
Psychologists
Research grants
Respite care
Rural health
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Social work
Teaching materials
Teleconferencing
Telemedicine
Terminal care
Terminal care facilities
Terminally ill
Volunteer workers

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Children's Compassionate Care Act of 2005 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to allow the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to provide training in pediatric palliative care and related services. 
 
Allows the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to award grants to implement or expand pediatric palliative care programs for children with life-threatening conditions. 
 
Authorizes the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to expand the number of physicians, nurses, mental health professionals, and appropriate allied health professionals and specialists with pediatric palliative clinical training and research experience. 
 
Allows the Secretary to award grants to enhance pediatric palliative care and care for children with life-threatening conditions in general pediatric or family practice residency training programs through the development of model programs. 
 
Requires the Director to provide translational research grants to fund research in pediatric pain and symptom management that will utilize existing NIH facilities.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish Medicare and private sector pediatric palliative care demonstration projects.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House