[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 87 (Thursday, May 5, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25696-25697]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-10983]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services;
Notice of Meeting
In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), notice is hereby given that the
following committee will convene its sixty-seventh meeting.
Name: National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human
Services.
Dates and Times: June 15, 2011, 9 a.m.-4:45 p.m., June 16, 2011,
9 a.m.-4:45 p.m., June 17, 2011, 8:45 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Place: Park Place Hotel, 300 East State Street, Traverse City,
MI 49684. (231) 946-5000.
Status: The meeting will be open to the public.
Purpose: The National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and
Human Services provides advice and recommendations of health and
human services in rural areas.
Agenda: Wednesday morning, at 9 a.m., the meeting will be called
to order by the Chairperson of the Committee, the Honorable Ronnie
Musgrove. The first three presentations will be overviews of rural
Michigan and the relevant health indicators. The remainder of the
day the Committee will hear presentations on two of the chosen
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Subcommittee topics. The first panel will focus on the impact of
Value-Based Purchasing Demonstrations. The second panel will focus
on primary care training and placement. The Subcommittees will then
move into breakout sessions to further discuss these topics. After
the panel discussions, the Committee Chair will give an overview of
the site visits. This will be followed by a call for public comment.
The Wednesday meeting will close at 4:45 p.m.
Thursday morning, at 9 a.m., the Committee will travel to Munson
Medical Center for a briefing on its role in serving the region. At
10 a.m. the Committee will break into Subcommittees and depart to
the site visits. The Value-Based Purchasing Demonstrations
Subcommittee will meet at Mercy Cadillac Hospital in Cadillac, MI.
The Primary Care Training and Placement Subcommittee will meet at
Kalkaska Rural Health Clinic in Kalkaska, MI. The Subcommittees will
return to the Park Place Hotel in Traverse City at 4 p.m.
Transportation to the site visits will not be provided to the
public. The Thursday meeting will close at 4:45 p.m.
The Final session will be convened on Friday morning at 8:45 am.
The meeting will open with a review of the Subcommittee site visits.
The Committee will draft a letter to the Secretary or Designee and
discuss the September 2011 meeting. The meeting will adjourn at
10:30 a.m.
For Further Information Contact: Thomas Morris, MPA, Executive
Secretary, National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human
Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Parklawn
Building, Room 10B-45, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857,
Telephone (301) 443-0835, Fax (301) 443-2803.
Persons interested in attending any portion of the meeting
should contact Deborah DeMasse-Snell at the Office of Rural Health
Policy (ORHP) via Telephone at (301) 443-0835 or by e-mail at
[email protected]. The committee meeting agenda will be posted
on ORHP's Web site http://www.ruralhealth.hrsa.gov.
Dated: April 28, 2011.
Reva Harris,
Acting Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2011-10983 Filed 5-4-11; 8:45 am]
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