PHBP

These grants are to the two local health departments (Cook and DuPage) with the greatest proportion of infants born to hepatitis B carriers in IL. The Department has provided additional funding to support case identification and infants case management services over the course of the infants’ first two years of life to ensure that the infant is age-appropriately vaccinated against hepatitis B and tested to ensure that the infants was not perinatally infected. Service demands are particularly high within the DuPage and Cook County areas due to the number of foreign-born hepatitis B carriers living within this area. It is essential to ensure that high risk infants are aggressively case-managed to complete their vaccination series and to acquire testing to determine the infant’s serostatus. In addition, these two grantees routinely assist the Department in identifying and validating the number of HBsAg+ mothers within their counties and sharing “best practices” to ensure improved responses with high risk families.

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Funding for the program is approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and allocated through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC then partners with each state to provide funding for Perinatal Hepatitis B coverage in Illinois.

GOALS Collaborate with health care providers to ensure a comprehensive approach to identifying pregnant women infected with hepatitis B (HBsAg+) and managing the preventive care of their infants and household contacts. Assist the Department in identifying and validating the number of hepatitis B surface antigen positive (HBsAg+) pregnant women mothers within the jurisdiction and assessing their household contacts and newborn infants ‘susceptibility status. Utilize the Illinois National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (I-NEDSS) to document surveillance and follow-up initiatives and findings, including telephone correspondence, counseling, field visits and referral(s) provided. Produce reminders of scheduled immunizations, conduct follow-up on infants who have not completed the vaccination series and facilitate post vaccination screening of infants once they have completed the immunization series. Assure that each HBsAG+ mother within their jurisdiction has the mother’s lab results, contacts and infant information documented correctly and completed within the I-NEDSS. Prepare and submit MONTHLY Perinatal Progress Reports to the Department, summarizing the number of women and infants identified for case management intervention by the outreach and tracking specialist during the quarter. Describe any local initiatives planned or provided to enhance perinatal hepatitis B prevention initiatives. Each report is due to the Department within 20 days of the end of the previous month. Submit MONTHLY details of expenditures of designated assessment staff to the Immunization program’s grants Administrator on the Request for Reimbursement form within 20 days of the end of the previous month. OBJECTIVES Conduct surveillance for HBsAg-infected pregnant women, providing case management to their infants and submit required documentation to IDPH. Task – Collaborate with area providers through consultation or educational programming to ensure a comprehensive approach to reducing incidence of perinatally acquired hepatitis B within the jurisdiction. Task – Submit infant and contact case management documentation to IDPH through INEDSS Task – Submit reimbursement certification forms to the IDPH monthly, identifying appropriate and approved expenditures. Task – Submit the MONTHLY Activity Summary Report, identifying monthly, quarterly and year-to-date progress in key outcome measures for surveillance, case management and tracking, infant prophylaxis/vaccination and post-vaccination testing.

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• Work with local hospitals throughout statewide Illinois to support case identification and infants case management services over the course of the infants’ first two years of life to ensure that the infant is age-appropriately vaccinated against hepatitis B and tested to ensure that the infants was not perinatally infected. • Some areas of Illinois are particularly high risk areas and are a priority due to the number of foreign-born hepatitis B carriers living within this area. It is essential to ensure that high risk infants are aggressively case-managed to complete their vaccination series and to acquire testing to determine the infant’s serostatus. • Routinely assist the Department in identifying and validating the number of HBsAg+ mothers within their counties and sharing “best practices” to ensure improved responses with high risk families. • Collaborate with health care providers to ensure a comprehensive approach to identifying pregnant women infected with hepatitis B (HBsAg+) and managing the preventive care of their infants and household contacts. • Assist the Department in identifying and validating the number of hepatitis B surface antigen positive (HBsAg+) pregnant women mothers within the jurisdiction and assessing their household contacts and newborn infants ‘susceptibility status. • Utilize the Illinois National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (I-NEDSS) to document surveillance and follow-up initiatives and findings, including telephone correspondence, counseling, field visits and referral(s) provided. Produce reminders of scheduled immunizations, conduct follow-up on infants who have not completed the vaccination series and facilitate post vaccination screening of infants once they have completed the immunization series. • Assure that each HBsAG+ mother within their jurisdiction has the mother’s lab results, contacts and infant information documented correctly and completed within the I-NEDSS. • Prepare and submit quarterly Perinatal Progress Reports to the Department, summarizing the number of women and infants identified for case management intervention by the outreach and tracking specialist during the quarter. Describe any local initiatives planned or provided to enhance perinatal hepatitis B prevention initiatives. Each report is due to the Department within 15 days of the end of the previous quarter. • Submit monthly details of expenditures of designated assessment staff to the Immunization program’s grants Administrator on the Request for Reimbursement form."

Nonprofit Organizations;

Public Health Departments

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Non-competitive

Healthcare

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All entities must be qualified to do business with the State of Illinois. To be qualified for a grant award, an entity must: • Have a valid DUNS number • Have a current SAM.gov account • Not be on the Federal Excluded Parties List • Be in Good Standing with the Illinois Secretary of State, as applicable • Not be on the Illinois Stop Payment list • Not be on the Department of Healthcare and Family Services Provider Sanctions list Entities must complete an Internal Controls Questionnaire (ICQ) as the Fiscal and Administrative Risk Assessment. The ICQ is completed once annually. All state agencies will utilize the results of the ICQ. The entity can access the ICQ from the grantee portal.

All applications must be submitted via the Illinois Department of Public Health’s Electronic Grants Administration and Management System (EGrAMS). All sections of the application must be complete

This is a non-competitive grant. All eligible applicants will receive a grant award. There are no merit-based review criteria for evaluating the applications. Each application will be reviewed for completeness and accuracy. Applications lacking any required information will be returned to the applicant for correction and re-submission.

Upon final approval by IDPH of the EGrAMS grant application, the applicant will be sent a grant agreement through EGrAMS. Each applicant will be required to print the grant agreement, sign it and return it to IDPH for execution. After execution, a copy of the executed grant agreement will be provided to the applicant.

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Outreach funds to conduct hospital in-services within Cook and DuPage counties to maintain a comprehensive perinatal record-keeping system capable of identifying the status of women infected with hepatitis B, their infants and household contacts. Additional funding to support cases-management services, nurses to perform home visits for screening and immunization as needed, follow-up activities and conduct post vaccination screening of infants that have completed the immunization series. In addition, professional healthcare staff perform screening and vaccination for household contacts. Investigative staff perform in-office tracking and data management, telephone and mail correspondence, educational counseling and assistance with protocol development and update. Staff at both agencies produce reminders of scheduled immunizations, conducted follow-up of clients who have not completed the vaccination series and perform post-vaccination screening of infants that have completed the immunization series

Monthly Reimbursements and progress Reports are required, and must be received by the IDPH no later than 5pm of the 20th of the month following.

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525 W. Jefferson, 2nd. Floor, Springfield, IL 62761

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7/21/2021

FY 2018 : $70,000