[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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