Children's Compassionate Care Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-5192
Sponsor: Rep. Pryce, Deborah [R-OH-15]
Introduced: 2008-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Child health
Communication in medicine
Conferences
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Critically ill
Curricula
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Families
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to research
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Health counseling
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Higher education
Home care services
Hospital care
Managed care
Medical education
Medical research
Medical residents
Medicare
Mental health services
Nurses
Nursing education
Pain
Paramedical personnel
Physicians
Psychiatrists
Psychologists
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Terminal care

Summary:
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: 
Children's Compassionate Care Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to allow the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to award grants to: (1) provide training in pediatric palliative care and related services for children with life-threatening conditions; and (2) implement or expand pediatric palliative care programs for such children. 

Authorizes the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to award training grants to expand the number of physicians, nurses, mental health professionals, and appropriate allied health professionals and specialists with interdisciplinary 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 and general or pediatric nursing education programs through the development of model interdisciplinary programs that partner with other health professional schools. 

Requires the Director to provide grants to fund interdisciplinary research in pediatric pain and symptom management that will utilize existing NIH facilities.

Requires the Secretary to: (1) establish Medicare and private sector pediatric palliative care demonstration projects; and (2) convene a Symposium on Pediatric Palliative Care.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-02-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2008-01-29
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: 2008-01-29
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: 2008-01-29
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: 2008-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-01-29
text: Introduced in House