[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 231 (Friday, November 30, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71425-71426]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-29009]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Public Comment Request
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration; HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter 35), the Health Resources and
Services Administration (HRSA) will submit an Information Collection
Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Comments
submitted during the first public review of this ICR will be provided
to OMB. OMB will accept further comments from the public during the
review and approval period. To request a copy of the clearance requests
submitted to OMB for review,
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email paperwork@hrsa.gov or call the HRSA Reports Clearance Office at
(301) 443-1984.
Information Collection Request Title: Workforce Recruitment in Health
Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)--Funded Health Centers
(OMB No. 0915-0353)--[Extension]
This semi-annual survey is designed to collect information from
HRSA-funded health centers regarding their current workforce and recent
hiring efforts. The purpose of this data collection instrument is to
provide data on health center workforce recruitment and identify areas
for additional training or technical assistance that might be needed to
support health centers in their hiring efforts. As authorized by
statute, HRSA provides technical assistance to health centers to assist
them in meeting the Health Center Program requirements and in providing
required primary health services, the provisions of which are dependent
on maintaining a high quality and effective workforce.
Ensuring that the primary care workforce is able to meet the
demands of increasing patient volume is critical to the future success
of health centers in serving the nation's underserved and vulnerable
populations. As health centers seek to fill open positions, one growing
pool of qualified candidates increasingly being recruited is returning
veterans, many of whom have trained as health care providers and/or
administrators during their time in the service. The information
collected in this survey will help assess how health centers have
filled vacancies, whether the availability of veterans to join the
health center workforce is impacting their hiring efforts, and what
additional efforts might improve health center recruitment.
Burden Statement: Burden in this context means the time expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose, or provide the
information requested. This includes the time needed to review
instructions, to develop, acquire, install, and utilize technology and
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating, and verifying
information; processing and maintaining information; and disclosing and
providing information, to train personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information, to search data sources, to complete and
review the collection of information, and to transmit or otherwise
disclose the information. The total annual burden hours estimated for
this ICR are summarized in the table below.
The annual estimate of burden is as follows:
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Number of Responses per Total Hours per Total burden
Instrument respondents respondent responses response* hours
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Health Center Work Force Survey. 1,200 2 2,400 1.0 2,400
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Total....................... 1,200 2 2,400 1.0 2,400
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* Note: This estimate includes the time for the grantee to read the survey instructions, collect the data and
information requested, and to complete the online survey.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to the desk officer for HRSA, either by
email to OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov or by fax to 202-395-5806. Please
direct all correspondence to the ``attention of the desk officer for
HRSA.''
Deadline: Comments on this ICR should be received within 30 days of
this notice.
Dated: November 26, 2012.
Bahar Niakan,
Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2012-29009 Filed 11-29-12; 8:45 am]
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