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Evaluation and Performance Measures: 5.0 PPE Procurement and Optimization Measures

Hospital Association COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement (Updated June 2023)

Operational Intent: These performance measures examine how activities have been implemented to achieve the following outcome: 

  • Procure and preserve PPE and other supplies and equipment in accordance with CDC guidelines 

5.1 Required Procurement and Optimization Measures 
 

Program Performance Measure 
 		Data Point 
 		Data Entity and Timing 
 		Calculation 
 
PM 17: Types of procured supplies and equipment per hospital association with Hospital Association COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement funding

Which of the following types supplies did you procure with Hospital Association COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement funds between April 10, 2022 and April 9, 2023*? 

*Supplies and equipment must be purchased by the hospital association,even if they are later distributed to facilities. 

 

  • Eye protection (e.g., goggles)

  • Gowns

  • Gloves

  • Facemasks or face shields (non-respiratory type)

  • N95 respirators

  • Reusable facepiece respirators

  • Powered Air Purifying Respirators (PAPRs)

  • Ventilators

  • Testing supplies, including nasopharyngeal (NP) swabs, clinical specimen transport media, etc.6

  • Reagents

  • Hand hygiene products (soap, hand sanitizer)

  • Cleaning products

  • Pharmaceutical products (syringes, inhalers, intravenous drug administration devices; does not include medication)

  • Other (free response)

Hospital association 

 
(collected at end of project year) 
 
N/A


 

PM 18: Types of procured supplies and equipment per sub-recipient with Hospital Association COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement funding 
 

Which of the following types of supplies did you procure with Hospital Association COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement funds between April 10, 2021 and April 9, 2022? 

 

  • Eye protection (e.g., goggles)

  • Gowns

  • Gloves

  • Facemasks or face shields (non- respirator type)

  • N95 respirators

  • Reusable facepiece respirators

  • Powered Air Purifying Respirators (PAPRs)

  • Ventilators

  • Testing supplies, including nasopharyngeal (NP) swabs, clinical specimen transport media, etc.7 Reagents

  • Hand hygiene products (soap, hand sanitizer)

  • Cleaning products

  • Pharmaceutical products (syringes,inhalers, intravenous drug administration devices, does not include medication)

  • Other(free response)

Sub-recipient 
 

 
(collected at end of project year) 

 
N/A 
 
PM 19: Number of sub- recipients instituting PPE optimization strategies with Hospital Association COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement funding 
 		Did your facility or organization utilize Hospital Association COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Activities Cooperative Agreement funding to institute PPE optimization strategies according to CDC guidelines? 8 
 
Sub-recipient 
 

 
(collected at end of project year) 
 
N/A 
 

6. Hospital Associations should submit a justification in writing to their Project Officer and Grants Manager on why they or their sub-recipients should be allowed to use funding for testing supplies if there is a need to use funding in this manner. 
7. Hospital Associations should submit a justification in writing to their Project Officer and Grants Manager on why they or their sub-recipients should be allowed to use funding for testing supplies if there is a need to use funding in this manner.
8. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Accessed August 2020. "Optimizing Supply of PPE and Other Equipment during Shortages."