[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 113 (Friday, July 24, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1977]
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                          EARMARK DECLARATION

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                            HON. TOM LATHAM

                                of iowa

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, July 24, 2009

  Mr. LATHAM. Madam Speaker, pursuant to the new House Republican 
standards on earmarks, I am submitting the following information.
  Bill Number: H.R. 3293, Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Act, 2010
  Project Name: Bio-Security Level 3 Lab
  Amount Provided: $650,000
  Account: Health Resources and Services Administration
  Recipient: Iowa State University
  Recipient's Street Address: 1750 Beardshear Hall, Ames, IA 50011
  Description: In order to contribute to the nation's pressing 
biosecurity needs, and to develop strategies for safeguarding the 
nation's animal agriculture and human populations from such highly 
infectious agents as influenza, Brucella, and West Nile virus, the 
funding will be used to help Iowa State University expand its high 
security, Bio-Security Level 3 facilities. Iowa State University's 
College of Veterinary Medicine long has been preeminent in the field of 
infectious disease research in domestic animals. More recently, in 
response to public health and national security concerns and in an 
effort to protect and secure the nation's animal agriculture industry, 
ISU has focused on research that addresses new and novel strategies to 
prevent and control foreign animal and zoonotic diseases. Zoonotic 
diseases are pathogens carried by animals that may be spread to humans, 
and many modern diseases, including various epidemics, initially were 
spread this way.
  Bill Number: H.R. 3293, Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Act, 2010
  Project Name: Electronic Medical Record System
  Amount Provided: $250,000
  Account: Health Resources and Services Administration
  Recipient: Madison County Health Care Center
  Recipient's Street Address: 300 W. Hutchings, Winterset, IA 50273
  Description: The funding will be used to install and implement an 
electronic medical record program which will improve the quality of 
health care provided to rural Iowans while reducing the potential for 
medical errors as well as realizing a reduction in costs through 
eliminating duplicity and paperwork.
  Bill Number: H.R. 3293, Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Act, 2010
  Project Name: Health Occupations Training Simulator
  Amount Provided: $165,000
  Account: Employment and Training Administration--Training & 
Employment Services
  Recipient: Iowa Valley Community College
  Recipient's Street Address: 3702 South Center Street, Marshalltown, 
IA 50158
  Description: This funding will purchase Health Occupation Training 
Simulators which will be used during training activities for current 
and future Registered Nurses (RN), Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN), 
Certified Nursing Assistants (CNA), Emergency Medical Technicians 
(EMT), and other health care practitioners.
  Bill Number: H.R. 3293, Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Act, 2010
  Project Name: Improving the Health Status of Rural Iowans through 
Prevention
  Amount Provided: $200,000
  Account: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  Recipient: Des Moines University
  Recipient's Street Address: 3200 Grand Avenue, Des Moines, IA 50312
  Description: This project would continue research involving a 
preventative health program focused on individuals 55-64 with moderate 
to high risk of chronic disease as determined by a Health Risk 
Assessment (HRA). The project is tracking health status and health risk 
for selected rural residents over the course of three years. 
Individuals identified by risk levels are participating in health risk 
prevention intervention programs.
  Bill Number: H.R. 3293, Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Act, 2010
  Project Name: INet Electronic Medical Record System for Intensive 
Care Unit
  Amount Provided: $350,000
  Account: Health Resources and Services Administration
  Recipient: Mercy Medical Center--North Iowa
  Recipient's Street Address: 1000 4th Street SW, Mason City, IA 50401
  Description: This funding would provide software, equipment and 
personnel training to implement the first fully automated intensive 
care unit in Iowa. The current system uses paper records, charts, etc. 
along with a basic EMR. The new system would utilize an enhanced 
electronic medical record that would improve monitoring of critical 
care patients, allow remote monitoring of patients in the Mercy ICU by 
their physicians in the surrounding communities, and reduce long-term 
costs associated with duplicate tests and paper-based records.
  Bill Number: H.R. 3293, Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Act, 2010
  Project Name: Institute for Novel Vaccine and Anti-Microbial Design 
(INOVA)
  Amount Provided: $1,000,000
  Account: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  Recipient: Iowa State University
  Recipient's Street Address: 1750 Beardshear Hall, Ames, IA 50011
  Description: The Novel Vaccine and Anti-Microbial Design (INOVA) will 
bring together a highly inter-disciplinary team of experienced 
scientific leaders from Iowa State University, the University of Iowa, 
and the National Animal Disease Center, to translate groundbreaking 
discoveries into the molecular design of new classes of immunobiotics 
and vaccines to reduce the current and expanding national threat 
associated with infectious disease.
  Bill Number: H.R. 3293, Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Act, 2010
  Project Name: Medical Equipment
  Amount Provided: $694,000
  Account: Health Resources and Services Administration
  Recipient: Trinity Regional Medical Center
  Recipient's Street Address: 802 Kenyon Road, Fort Dodge, IA 50501
  Description: The funding would be used to replace the nine-year old, 
outdated cardiac catheterization lab equipment and provide the highest 
quality cardiac care to patients in a nine-county primary service area. 
Northwest central Iowa needs a facility with a state-of-the-art 
catheterization lab. Patients should not have to (and in some cases, 
cannot) travel to Des Moines, Mason City or Ames to have access to a 
new cath lab and the life saving services offered by new equipment. 
Residents in Fort Dodge, and surrounding communities such as Humboldt 
and Pocahontas, for example, are in need of the services offered by 
state of the art cath lab equipment. The new technology will allow 
integration to a new image acquisition/storage system and will help 
continue the commitment to provide a comprehensive cardiac 
catheterization service to patients in Northwest Central Iowa.

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