[Federal Register: May 30, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 103)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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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 fifty-sixth meeting.
Name: National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human
Services.
Dates and Times: June 10, 2007, 1 p.m.-5:45 p.m., June 11, 2007,
8:45 a.m.-5 p.m., June 12, 2007, 8:50 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Place: Fort Collins Hilton, 425 Prospect Road, Fort Collins, CO
80526, Phone: 970-482-2626.
Status: The meeting will be open to the public.
Purpose: The National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and
Human Services provides advice and recommendations to the Secretary
with respect to the delivery, research, development and
administration of health and human services in rural areas.
Agenda: Sunday afternoon, June 10, at 1 p.m., the meeting will
be called to order by the Chairperson of the Committee, the
Honorable David Beasley. Jim Wescott, Senior Demographer with
Colorado State will be give an overview of Rural Colorado. Following
this presentation will be two panels on health and human services
issues. The first will be an health panel. The speakers will be Mark
Wallace, President of Northern Colorado Health Alliance, and Dr.
Jack Westfall, Associate Dean for Rural Health at the Colorado
University School of Medicine. The second will be a human services
panel. The speakers will be Patricia Brewster-Willeke, a Public
Health Nurse, and Kindra Mulch, Administrator of Kit Carson County
Health and Human Services. Following the panel discussions will be
an overview of Monday's site visits by Lou Ann Wilroy with the
Colorado State Office of Rural Health. The Sunday meeting will close
at 5:45 p.m.
Monday morning, June 11, at 8:30 a.m., the Committee will break
into Subcommittee format for the site visits. At 8:45 a.m., both
Subcommittees will depart for site visits. The Health Subcommittee
will depart to East Morgan County Hospital in Brush, Colorado. The
Human Services Subcommittee will depart to the Area Agency on Aging
in Fort Morgan, Colorado. Transportation to these sites will not be
provided. Both Subcommittees will return to Fort Collins Hilton and
resume meeting in Subcommittee format at 4 p.m. The Monday meeting
will close at 5 p.m.
The final session will be convened Tuesday morning, June 12, at
8:50 a.m. A Committee member, Mayor Larry Otis, will present a case
study titled Employee Health Care in Rural Mississippi. Following
this presentation will be a review of the site visits, discussion on
the letter to the Secretary, and discussion of the upcoming
September meeting. The meeting will be adjourned at 10:45 a.m.
For Further Information Contact: Anyone requiring information
regarding the Committee should contact Tom Morris, M.P.A., Executive
Secretary, National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human
Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Parklawn
Building, Room 9A-55, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857,
Telephone (301) 443-0835, Fax (301) 443-2803.
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Persons interested in attending any portion of the meeting
should contact Michele Pray-Gibson, Office of Rural Health Policy
(ORHP), Telephone (301) 443-0835. The Committee meeting agenda will
be posted on ORHP's Web site http://www.ruralhealth.hrsa.gov.
Due to scheduling difficulties, this notice will publish in the
Federal Register less than 15 days before the date of the meeting.
Dated: May 24, 2007.
Caroline Lewis,
Associate Administrator for Management.
[FR Doc. 07-2683 Filed 5-25-07; 10:55 am]
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