This bill — the MISSION ZERO Act — would establish a grant program for qualified military personnel to provide trauma care in civilian trauma centers, providing $15 million annually through fiscal year 2022. Funding could be used to train and incorporate military trauma care providers into the trauma center, including expenditures for malpractice insurance, office space, information technology, specialty education and supervision, trauma programs, and state license fees. Grantees would have to allow the military trauma care providers to be deployed for military operations, training, or response to a mass casualty incident.
The bill’s full title is the Military Injury Surgical Systems Integrated Operationally Nationwide to Achieve ZERO Preventable Deaths Act.