[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 217 (Tuesday, November 10, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 69677-69679]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-28475]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-16-0943; Docket No. CDC-2015-0098]
Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and
Recommendations
AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice with comment period.
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SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part
of its continuing efforts to reduce public burden and maximize the
utility of government information, invites the general public and other
Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or
continuing information collections, as required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995. This notice invites comment on Data Collection
for the Residential Care Community and Adult Day Services Center
Components of the National Study of Long-Term Care Providers. The
purpose is to collect data for the residential care community and adult
day services center components for the 2016 wave of the National Study
of Long-Term Care Providers.
DATES: Written comments must be received on or before January 11, 2016.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2015-
0098 by any of the following methods:
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Federal eRulemaking Portal: Regulation.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
Mail: Leroy A. Richardson, Information Collection Review
Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road
NE., MS-D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329.
Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency name
and Docket Number. All relevant comments received will be posted
without change to Regulations.gov, including any personal information
provided. For access to the docket to read background documents or
comments received, go to Regulations.gov.
Please note: All public comment should be submitted through the
Federal eRulemaking portal (Regulations.gov) or by U.S. mail to the
address listed above.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the information collection plan
and instruments, contact the Information Collection Review Office,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE., MS-
D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329; phone: 404-639-7570; Email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), Federal agencies must obtain approval from
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for each collection of
information they conduct or sponsor. In addition, the PRA also requires
Federal agencies to provide a 60-day notice in the Federal Register
concerning each proposed collection of information, including each new
proposed collection, each proposed extension of existing collection of
information, and each reinstatement of previously approved information
collection before submitting the collection to OMB for approval. To
comply with this requirement, we are publishing this notice of a
proposed data collection as described below.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of
the agency, including whether the information shall have practical
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; (d) ways to
minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents,
including through the use of automated collection techniques or other
forms of information technology; and (e) estimates of capital or start-
up costs and costs of operation, maintenance, and purchase of services
to provide information. Burden means the total time, effort, or
financial resources expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain,
disclose or provide information to or for a Federal agency. 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.
Proposed Project
Residential Care Community and Adult Day Service Center Components
of the National Study of Long-Term Care Providers (OMB Control No.
0920-0943 Exp. Date: 07/31/2015)--Reinstatement with change--National
Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Section 306 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act (42 U.S.C.
242k), as amended, authorizes that the Secretary of Health and Human
Services (DHHS), acting through NCHS, ``shall collect statistics on
health resources . . . [and] utilization of health care, including
extended care facilities, and other institutions.''
NCHS seeks approval to collect data for the residential care
community (RCC) and adult day services center (ADSC) survey components
of the 3rd wave of the National Study of Long-Term Care Providers
(NSLTCP). A two year clearance is requested.
As background here are some details on the complete study design.
The NSLTCP, a voluntary survey, is designed to (1) broaden NCHS'
ongoing coverage of paid, regulated long-term care (LTC) providers; (2)
merge with existing administrative data on LTC providers and service
users (i.e., Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) data on
nursing homes and residents, home health agencies and patients, and
hospices and patients); (3) update data more frequently on LTC
providers and service users for which nationally representative
administrative data do not exist; and (4) enable comparisons across LTC
sectors and timely monitoring of supply and use of these sectors over
time.
Data will be collected from two types of LTC providers in the 50
states and the District of Columbia: 11,690 RCCs and 5,440 ADSCs in
each wave. Data were collected in 2012 and 2014. The data to be
collected beginning in 2016 include the basic characteristics,
services, staffing, and practices of RCCs and ADSCs, and aggregate-
level distributions of the demographics, selected health conditions and
health care utilization, physical functioning, and cognitive
functioning of RCC residents and ADSC participants.
Expected users of data from this collection effort include, but are
not limited to CDC; other Department of Health and Human Services
(DHHS) agencies, such as the Office of the Assistant Secretary for
Planning and Evaluation and the Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality; associations, such as LeadingAge (formerly the American
Association of Homes and Services for the Aging), National Center for
Assisted Living, American Seniors Housing Association, Assisted Living
Federation of America, and National Adult Day Services Association;
universities; foundations; and other private sector organizations such
as the Alzheimer's Association and the AARP Public Policy Institute.
Expected burden from data collection is 30 minutes per respondent.
We estimate that 5% of RCC and ADSC directors will be called for an
additional 5 minutes of data retrieval when there are errors or
omissions in their returned questionnaires. Two year clearance is
requested to cover the collection of data. The burden for the
collection is shown in Table 1 below. There is no cost to respondents
other than their time to participate.
Estimated Annualized Burden Table
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Number of Average burden
Type of respondents Form name Number of responses per per response Total burden
respondents respondent (in hrs.) (in hrs.)
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RCC Director/Designated Staff. RCC 5,846 1 30/60 2,923
Questionnaire.
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ADSC Director/Designated Staff ADSC 2,720 1 30/60 1,360
Questionnaire.
RCC and ADSC Directors/ Data Retrieval.. 429 1 5/60 36
Designated Staff.
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Total..................... ................ .............. .............. .............. 4,319
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Leroy A. Richardson,
Chief, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific
Integrity, Office of the Associate Director for Science, Office of the
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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