Lance Announces National Pediatric Brain Injury Legislation
July 20, 2011
Congressmen Leonard Lance (R-NJ) and Michael Grimm (R-NY), Sarah Jane Brain Foundation founder Patrick Donohue, Sarah Jane Donohue, namesake of the Sarah Jane Brain Foundation and six-year-old brain injury survivor, Barbara Geiger-Parker, President and CEO of the Brain Injury Association of New Jersey, Mike Davis, father of son with a brain injury and President of the Brain Injury Association of West Virginia, Craig Sears, brain injury survivor (motor vehicle crash) and others announce the introduction of The National Pediatric Acquired Brain Injury Plan Act (PABI Plan Act). "The National Pediatric Acquired Brain Injury Plan" (PABI Plan) is bipartisan legislation that seeks to develop a seamless, standardized, evidence-based system of care that is universally accessible for the millions of families who have a child or young adult suffering the leading cause of death and disability for American youth: brain injury.