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Slide 1: Update from the Office of Rural Health Policy
Marcia
K. Brand, Ph.D., Director
Office of Rural Health Policy
Health Resources and Services Administration
National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services
March 20, 2005
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Slide 2: National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human
Services
- New environment -
advisory to Secretary Leavitt
- Issues key to new
Administration
- Implementing the Medicare
Modernization Act (MMA)
- Reforming Medicaid
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Slide 3: NAC Accomplishments:
2004 Report to be released
in April, topics:
- Collaboration
- Obesity in Rural Communities
- Access to Obstetrical
Care
- Rural Implications
of TANF program
2005 Report topics:
- Health Information
Technology
- Access to Pharmacy
Services
- Rural Elderly Caregiver
Support
Next meetings (Tennessee,
Wyoming)
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Slide 4: Update about the Office
- 34 staff; 25 in Rockville
- NAC Committee staff
- Tom Morris, Executive
Secretary
- Jennifer Riggle
- Karen Stewart
- Michele Pray
- Deanna Durrett
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Slide 5: ORHP Has New Border Health Role
- ORHP now manages HRSA
border efforts
- Staff in the border
region - opportunities to collaborate
- Border Binational
Health Week 2005 - October
- Development of a Border
website within the Rural Assistance Center www.raconline.org
- Border leadership
program
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Slide 6: Issues we Continue to Monitor
- Access to mental and
behavioral health services
- Access to oral health
services
- Growing numbers of
uninsured
- Workforce shortages
- Small rural hospital
viability
- Patient safety and
quality concerns
- Emergency medical
services
- Medical malpractice
insurance
- Program integration
and coordination
- Prevention and case
management
- Defining "rural"
- Serving frontier communities
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Slide 7: New Areas of Focus
- Issues we would add
this year
- Access to pharmacy
services
- Health information
technology (HIT)
- MMA implementation
- Medicaid reform
- Your 2005 report will
address two of these (pharmacy, HIT)
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Slide 8: Two Other Key Focus Areas for ORHP FY05
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Slide 9: Current Work in These Areas (NAC 2005 Topics)
- Access to Pharmacy
Services
- The 340 B program
- Technical assistance
- Working with the
Delta Regional Authority, Appalachian Regional Commission
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Slide 10: Current Work Continued
- Health information
technology
- ORHP grants that
focus on HIT
- Working with the
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (NCHIT)
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Slide 11: ORHP and its MMA Activities
- Issues on the forefront
- PPS/ Medicare Advantage
- Drug benefits
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Slide 12: ORHP and Quality
- A Focus on the IOM
Report: Quality Through Collaboration- The Future of Rural Health
- HRSA, Agency for Health
Quality and Research (AHRQ), Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration (SAMHSA), and the WK Kellogg Foundation
supported this work
- Opportunities
- Every rural health
agenda will include some discussion of quality
- Opportunities for
leadership and collaboration
- HHS Rural Task Force
- HHS-wide effort
- ORHP All Programs
Meeting (August 22 - 26, 2005)
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Slide 13: Contact Information
Marcia Brand
mbrand@hrsa.gov
Call the Office of Rural
Health Policy at 301-443-0835
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