PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE ACT

Amendments

Health: improve patient safety and reduce incidence of medical errors (S. 720), S8776 [22JY]

Appointments

Conferees: H.R. 663, Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act, S8633 [22JY]

Articles and editorials

First, Do No Harm, S8632 [22JY]

Bills and resolutions

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: expand the risk pools that qualify for high risk pool grants (see H.R. 5157), H7735 [28SE]

Children and youth: support planning, implementation, and evaluation of organized activities involving statewide youth suicide early intervention and prevention strategies (see S. 2175), S2301 [8MR] (see S. 2634), S7828 [8JY] (see H.R. 4557), H3963 [14JN] (see H.R. 4799), H5470 [9JY]

Coordinated Environmental Health Network: establish (see S. 2953), S10845 [8OC] (see H.R. 5335), H9049 [8OC]

Death and dying: improve access to information about end of life care options and legal rights, promote advance care planning and decisionmaking, and engage health care providers in preparation of advance directives (see S. 2545), S6997 [17JN]

Dept. of HHS: establish grant programs for education and outreach on newborn screening and coordinated followup care once newborn screening has been conducted (see H.R. 4493), H3719 [2JN]

———reauthorize and extend the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome prevention and services program (see S. 2741), S8688 [22JY]

Diseases: enhance research, training, and health information dissemination on urologic diseases (see S. 2361), S4692 [29AP]

———establish a program of grants for detection and control of colorectal cancer (see H.R. 4093), H1790 [31MR]

———fund breakthroughs in Alzheimer's disease research while providing more help to caregivers and increasing public education about prevention (see S. 2533), S6881 [16JN] (see H.R. 4595), H4286 [16JN]

———improve quality of care for cancer patients (see S. 2771), S8688 [22JY]

Drug abuse: assist States in establishing, maintaining, and improving systems to reduce the diversion and abuse of prescription drugs (see S. 2288), S3791 [6AP]

Drugs: establish an electronic system for practitioner monitoring of the dispensing of certain controlled substances (see S. 3013), S11640 [19NO]

———expand the clinical trials drug data bank (see S. 2933), S10703 [7OC]

———improve provision of discounts on drug purchases for certain safety net providers (see H.R. 4161), H2153 [2AP]

———require agreements regarding the wholesale price of brand-name prescription drugs as a condition of the allowance of certain tax deductions and credits (see H.R. 4899), H6700 [22JY]

FDA: conduct oversight of any entity engaged in the recovery, testing, or handling of human tissue or human tissue-based products (see H.R. 4151), H2152 [2AP]

Hazardous substances: prohibit discrimination relative to exposure (see H.R. 4215), H2372 [22AP]

Health: address shortage of influenza vaccine (see S. 2968), S10846 [8OC] (see H.R. 5409), H10078 [19NO]

———conduct vaccine awareness campaign, ensure sufficient vaccine supply, prepare for pandemic or epidemic, and encourage vaccine production capacity relative to influenza (see S. 2038), S320 [28JA] (see H.R. 3758), H303 [3FE]

———coordinate Federal policies and activities to prevent childhood obesity and establish grants for State childhood obesity prevention and control (see S. 2894), S10436 [5OC]

———ensure an adequate supply and distribution of influenza vaccine (see S. 2959), S10846 [8OC]

———improve the quality and efficiency of health care delivery through improvements in health care information technology (see S. 2710), S8548 [21JY] (see S. 2907), S10568 [6OC]

———increase faculty in palliative care medicine at accredited allopathic and osteopathic medical schools and promote development of careers as academic palliative specialists who emphasize teaching (see S. 2984), S11377 [16NO]

———promote organ donation (see H.R. 3926), H1010 [10MR]

———protect certain health care providers against legal liability for certain emergency and related care provided to uninsured individuals (see H.R. 4992), H6704 [22JY]

———protection of enrollees in managed care plans and HMO's (see S. 2083), S1286 [12FE] (see H.R. 4628), H4646 [21JN]

———protection of enrollees in managed care plans and HMO's (H.R. 4628), consideration (see H. Res. 773), H7138 [14SE]

———provide for a program of screenings and education relative to children with sudden cardiac arrhythmia syndromes (see H.R. 4335), H2815 [11MY]

———provide for arthritis research and public health (see S. 2338), S4300 [22AP] (see H.R. 4610), H4391 (see H.R. 4610), H4506 [17JN]

———provide for embryonic stem cell research (see H.R. 4682), H4926 (see H.R. 4682), H5070 [24JN]

———provide for emergency distributions of influenza vaccine (see H.R. 5243), H8856 [7OC]

———provide State grants for developing trauma care systems (see H.R. 3999), H1322 [18MR]

———reauthorize and extend certain programs to provide coordinated services and research relative to children and families with HIV/AIDS (see S. 2892), S10436 [5OC]

Health care facilities: authorize grants to hospitals for measurement-based strategies to improve the quality and efficiency of health care (see H.R. 4127), H2151 [2AP]

———establish direct care registered nurse-to-patient staffing ratio requirements in hospitals (see H.R. 4316), H2727 [6MY]

———modify determination of the amount of payments for indirect expenses associated with operating approved graduate medical residency training programs at children's hospitals (see H.R. 5204), H8038 [4OC]

Health care professionals: authorize capitation grants to increase the number of nursing faculty and students (see H.R. 5324), H9048 [8OC]

———establish a scholarship and loan repayment program for public health preparedness workforce development to eliminate critical public health preparedness workforce shortages (see S. 2613), S7750 [7JY]

———improve dental services in underserved areas (see S. 2740), S8688 [22JY]

———improve training and retention (see S. 2739), S8688 [22JY]

———provide for education and training of allied health professionals in exchange for a service commitment at a facility with critical shortages of allied health professionals (see S. 2491), S6348 [2JN] (see H.R. 4016), H1369 [23MR]

Homeless: establish a grant program to provide supportive services in permanent supportive housing for chronically homeless individuals (see S. 2937), S10703 [7OC] (see H.R. 4866), H6127 [20JY]

Insurance: coverage of bone mass measurements (see H.R. 4154), H2152 [2AP]

———extend Federal funding for the establishment and operation of State high risk health insurance pools (see H.R. 5341), H9049 [8OC]

———provide for cooperative governing of individual health insurance coverage offered in interstate commerce (see H.R. 4662), H4893 [23JN]

Mammography Quality Standards Act: reauthorize (see H.R. 4555), H3963 [14JN]

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development: establish a program on children and the media to study the role and impact of electronic media in the development of children (see S. 2447), S5799 [19MY]

Nursing homes: establish a loan repayment program for nurse practitioners and physician assistants in underserved homes, and establish a mentoring program for training administrators (see H.R. 5322), H9048 [8OC]

Nutrition: authorize grants for the integration of innovative curricula on nutrition in medical education (see H.R. 5350), H9050 [8OC]

Product safety: increase public availability of information on clinical trials to determine the safety and effectiveness of drugs, biological products, and devices (see H.R. 5252), H8857 [7OC]

Research: provide clinical research support grants, clinical research infrastructure grants, and a demonstration program on partnerships in clinical research (see S. 2924), S10703 [7OC] (see H.R. 4779), H5401 [8JY]

Senior citizens: provide mental health screening and treatment services, integration of mental health services and mental health treatment outreach teams (see S. 2572), S7434 [24JN] (see H.R. 4694), H4926 (see H.R. 4694), H5070 [24JN]

States: establish prescription drug monitoring programs, impose requirements on Internet pharmacies, require manufacturers to implement chain-of-custody procedures, and restrict exemption on importation of certain drugs (see H.R. 3870), H752 [2MR]

Women: provide for educational activities and research relative to women's pelvic floor health through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and NIH (see H.R. 4979), H6704 [22JY]

Cost Estimates

Mammography Quality Standards Act reauthorization (S. 1879): CBO, S3093 [24MR]

Letters

Advance Directives Improvement and Education Act: Karen Orloff Kaplan, Last Acts Partnership (organization), S7018 [17JN]

Clinical trials drug data bank expansion: Diane E. Dorman, National Organization for Rare Disorders, Inc., S10729 [7OC]

———Janell Mayo Duncan, Consumers Union, S10729 [7OC]

———Mark Isaac, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, S10729 [7OC]

———Richard Sarles, American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, S10729 [7OC]

Provide coordinated services and research relative to children and families with HIV/AIDS: Ivy Turnbull and David C. Harvey, AIDS Alliance for Children, Youth and Families, S10441 [5OC]

———Mark Isaac, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, S10441 [5OC]

———Mitchell Warren, AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition, S10442 [5OC]

Support planning, implementation, and evaluation of organized activities involving statewide youth suicide early intervention and prevention strategies: Meredith Jessup, S9021 [9SE]

Taxpayer Abuse Prevention Act: several consumer organizations, S10850 [8OC]

Lists

Organizations supporting S. 2491, Allied Health Reinvestment Act, S6360 [2JN]

STOP Stroke Act Coalition, H3895 [14JN]

Remarks in House

Children and youth: support planning, implementation, and evaluation of organized activities involving statewide youth suicide early intervention and prevention strategies (H.R. 4557), E1155 [18JN]

———support planning, implementation, and evaluation of organized activities involving statewide youth suicide early intervention and prevention strategies (H.R. 4799), H5515 [12JY]

———support planning, implementation, and evaluation of organized activities involving statewide youth suicide early intervention and prevention strategies (S. 2634), H6865-H6874 [8SE], E1573 [9SE], E1584, E1585 [10SE], E1721 [29SE]

Coordinated Environmental Health Network: establish (H.R. 5335), E1902 [11OC]

Diseases: fund breakthroughs in Alzheimer's disease research while providing more help to caregivers and increasing public education about prevention (H.R. 4595), E1143 [16JN], E1152 [18JN]

Domestic violence: research health impact and prevention and provide training and Federal coverage for health care professionals to identify and treat families experiencing family violence (H.R. 1267), E354 [11MR]

Drugs: establish an electronic system for practitioner monitoring of the dispensing of certain controlled substances (H.R. 3015), H8069-H8073 [5OC], E1875, E1925 [11OC]

Education: authorize grants for the integration of innovative curricula on nutrition in medical education (H.R. 5350), E1922 [11OC]

Health: conduct vaccine awareness campaign, ensure sufficient vaccine supply, prepare for pandemic or epidemic, and encourage vaccine production capacity relative to influenza, H10204 [20NO]

———conduct vaccine awareness campaign, ensure sufficient vaccine supply, prepare for pandemic or epidemic, and encourage vaccine production capacity relative to influenza (H.R. 3758), E105 [3FE]

———improve patient safety and reduce incidence of medical errors (H.R. 663), E845 [14MY]

———promote organ donation (H.R. 3926), H1335-H1339 [23MR], E439, E447 [24MR]

———provide for arthritis research and public health (H.R. 4610), E1156, E1157 [18JN]

———strengthen programs for stroke education, prevention, and treatment (H.R. 3658), H3893-H3896 [14JN], E1116 [15JN], E1135 [16JN]

Health care facilities: modify determination of the amount of payments for indirect expenses associated with operating approved graduate medical residency training programs at children's hospitals (H.R. 5204), H8253-H8255 [6OC]

Health care professionals: amend relative to the shortage of medical laboratory personnel (H.R. 623), H2230 [21AP]

Mammography Quality Standards Act: reauthorize (H.R. 4555), H8079, H8080 [5OC]

NIH: provide for Alzheimer's disease research and demonstration grants, H3794, H3795 [8JN], H3868 [9JN]

Product safety: increase public availability of information on clinical trials to determine the safety and effectiveness of drugs, biological products, and devices (H.R. 5252), E1882 [11OC]

Research: provide clinical research support grants, clinical research infrastructure grants, and a demonstration program on partnerships in clinical research (H.R. 4779), E1346 [9JY]

Remarks in Senate

Children and youth: support planning, implementation, and evaluation of organized activities involving statewide youth suicide early intervention and prevention strategies (S. 2175), S2305-S2308 [8MR], S7810 [8JY]

———support planning, implementation, and evaluation of organized activities involving statewide youth suicide early intervention and prevention strategies (S. 2634), S7800-S7806, S7810, S7864 [8JY], S7875, S7876 [9JY], S9020-S9023 [9SE], S9072 [10SE]

Coordinated Environmental Health Network: establish (S. 2953), S10851 [8OC]

Death and dying: improve access to information about end of life care options and legal rights, promote advance care planning and decisionmaking, and engage health care providers in preparation of advance directives (S. 2545), S7016 [17JN]

Dept. of HHS: reauthorize and extend the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome prevention and services program (S. 2741), S8723 [22JY]

Diseases: enhance research, training, and health information dissemination on urologic diseases (S. 2361), S4696 [29AP]

———fund breakthroughs in Alzheimer's disease research while providing more help to caregivers and increasing public education about prevention (S. 2533), S6901, S6902 [16JN], S9380 [20SE]

———improve quality of care for cancer patients (S. 2771), S8766 [22JY]

Drug abuse: assist States in establishing, maintaining, and improving systems to reduce the diversion and abuse of prescription drugs (S. 2288), S3793 [6AP]

Drugs: establish an electronic system for practitioner monitoring of the dispensing of certain controlled substances (S. 3013), S11643 [19NO]

———expand the clinical trials drug data bank (S. 2933), S10728-S10731 [7OC]

Health: address shortage of influenza vaccine (S. 2968), S10864 [8OC]

———coordinate Federal policies and activities to prevent childhood obesity and establish grants for State childhood obesity prevention and control (S. 2894), S10443 [5OC]

———improve patient safety and reduce incidence of medical errors, S11889 [7DE]

———improve patient safety and reduce incidence of medical errors (H.R. 663), S8092, S8093 [14JY], S8632, S8633 [22JY]

———improve patient safety and reduce incidence of medical errors (H.R. 663), insert S. 720 language in lieu, S8632 [22JY]

———improve patient safety and reduce incidence of medical errors (H.R. 663), unanimous-consent request, S3877, S3878 [7AP], S8092 [14JY]

———improve patient safety and reduce incidence of medical errors (S. 720), S8091 [14JY], S8222 [15JY], S8416-S8418 [19JY], S8627-S8633 [22JY]

———improve the quality and efficiency of health care delivery through improvements in health care information technology (S. 2710), S8656 [22JY]

———improve the quality and efficiency of health care delivery through improvements in health care information technology (S. 2907), S10581 [6OC]

———increase faculty in palliative care medicine at accredited allopathic and osteopathic medical schools and promote development of careers as academic palliative specialists who emphasize teaching (S. 2984), S11381 [16NO]

———promote organ donation (H.R. 3926), S3172 [25MR]

———protection of enrollees in managed care plans and HMO's (S. 2083), S1294 [12FE]

———provide for arthritis research and public health (S. 2338), S4316 [22AP]

———reauthorize and extend certain programs to provide coordinated services and research relative to children and families with HIV/AIDS (S. 2892), S10440-S10442 [5OC]

Health care facilities: modify determination of the amount of payments for indirect expenses associated with operating approved graduate medical residency training programs at children's hospitals (H.R. 5204), S12029 [8DE]

Health care professionals: establish a scholarship and loan repayment program for public health preparedness workforce development to eliminate critical public health preparedness workforce shortages (S. 2613), S7752 [7JY]

———improve dental services in underserved areas (S. 2740), S8720 [22JY]

———improve training and retention (S. 2739), S8714 [22JY]

———provide for education and training of allied health professionals in exchange for a service commitment at a facility with critical shortages of allied health professionals (S. 2491), S6358 [2JN], S6625 [8JN]

Homeless: establish a grant program to provide supportive services in permanent supportive housing for chronically homeless individuals (S. 2937), S10739-S10742 [7OC]

Mammography Quality Standards Act: reauthorize (H.R. 4555), S10921 [9OC]

———reauthorize (S. 1879), S105 [21JA], S379 [2FE]

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development: establish a program on children and the media to study the role and impact of electronic media in the development of children (S. 2447), S5803-S5806 [19MY]

NIH: provide for Alzheimer's disease research and demonstration grants, S6599-S6615 [8JN], S6666, S6668 [9JN]

Senior citizens: provide mental health screening and treatment services, integration of mental health services and mental health treatment outreach teams (S. 2572), S7437-S7441 [24JN]

Reports filed

Mammography Quality Standards Act Reauthorization: Committee on Energy and Commerce (House) (H.R. 4555) (H. Rept. 108-694), H7441 [22SE]

National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Act: Committee on Energy and Commerce (House) (H.R. 3015) (H. Rept. 108-728), H8166 [5OC]

Stroke Treatment and Ongoing Prevention Act: Committee on Energy and Commerce (House) (H.R. 3658) (H. Rept. 108-453), H1739 [30MR]

Texts of

H.R. 3015, National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Act, H8069 [5OC]

H.R. 3658, Stroke Treatment and Ongoing Prevention Act, H3893 [14JN]

H.R. 3926, Organ Donation and Recovery Improvement Act, H1335 [23MR]

H.R. 4555, Mammography Quality Standards Act reauthorization, H8079 [5OC]

H.R. 5204, modify determination of the amount of payments for indirect expenses associated with operating approved graduate medical residency training programs at children's hospitals, H8253 [6OC]

S. 720, Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act, S8627-S8631 [22JY]

S. 1879, Mammography Quality Standards Act reauthorization, S379 [2FE]

S. 2175, Youth Suicide Early Intervention and Prevention Expansion Act, S2306 [8MR]

S. 2361, Training and Research in Urology Act, S4696 [29AP]

S. 2447, Children and Media Research Advancement Act, S5805 [19MY]

S. 2491, Allied Health Reinvestment Act, S6360-S6362 [2JN]

S. 2545, Advance Directives Improvement and Education Act, S7017 [17JN]

S. 2572, Positive Aging Act, S7438-S7440 [24JN]

S. 2634, support planning, implementation, and evaluation of organized activities involving statewide youth suicide early intervention and prevention strategies, S7864-S7867 [8JY], S9083-S9086 [10SE], H6865-H6868 [8SE]

S. 2739, Investing in America's Future Act, S8715-S8720 [22JY]

S. 2740, Dental Health Provider Shortage Act, S8721-S8723 [22JY]

S. 2741, Advancing FASD Research, Prevention, and Services Act, S8723-S8727 [22JY]

S. 2771, Quality of Care for Individuals With Cancer Act, S8760-S8766 [22JY]

S. 2937, Services for Ending Long-Term Homelessness Act, S10739-S10741 [7OC]

S. 2953, Coordinated Environmental Health Network Act, S10852-S10855 [8OC]

S. 2968, Emergency Flu Response Act, S10861-S10863 [8OC]