[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 153 (Thursday, August 8, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 51590]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-20040]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Advisory Committee; Notice of Meeting

    In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), announcement is made of the following 
National Advisory body scheduled to meet during the month of September 
2002.
    The National Advisory Committee on Rural Health will convene its 
forty-second meeting in the time and place specified below:

    Name: National Advisory Committee on Rural Health.
    Date and Time: September 8, 2002, 1:30 p.m.-5 p.m.; September 9, 
2002, 8:30 a.m.-4:45 p.m.; September 10, 2002, 8 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
    Place: Chico Hot Springs Resort, P.O. Box 29, Pray, Montana 
59047, Phone: 406-333-4933.
    The meeting is open to the public.
    Purpose: The National Advisory Committee on Rural Health 
provides advice and recommendations to the Secretary with respect to 
the delivery, research, development and administration of health 
care services in rural areas.
    Agenda: Sunday, September 8, at Chico Hot Springs Resort at 1:30 
p.m. the chairperson, the Honorable David Beasley, will open the 
meeting and welcome the Committee members. The first plenary session 
will consist of presentations by the Montana Quality Improvement 
Organization and the Montana Health Quality Network. This will be 
followed by reports from the Quality and Workforce Subcommittees. At 
3:45 p.m. the Committee will hear a presentation from Libby Hospital 
and an update on the Department of Health and Human Services Rural 
Initiative.
    Monday, September 9, at 8:30 a.m. the Committee will depart for 
a site visit at the Big Timber Hospital. At 11 a.m. the Committee 
will depart for a site visit to Livingston, Montana. Transportation 
to these locations will not be provided to the general public. At 
3:30 p.m. the Committee will hear a presentation from a 
representative of the Governor's Health Workforce Study.
    The final plenary session will be convened on Tuesday, September 
10. Beginning at 8 a.m. there will be a review of the site visits 
and a report from the Quality Subcommittee. The meeting will 
conclude with a discussion of the Montana presentations and what 
issues to raise in the Committee's meeting summary that will be sent 
to the Secretary. The meeting will be adjourned at 10:30 a.m.
    Anyone requiring information regarding the subject Committee 
should contact Tom Morris, Executive Secretary, National Advisory 
Committee on Rural Health, Health Resources and Services 
Administration, Room 9A-55, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, 
Rockville, MD 20857, telephone (301) 443-0835, Fax (301) 443-2803.
    Persons interested in attending any portion of the meeting 
should contact Michele Pray, Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP), 
(301) 443-0835. The National Advisory Committee meeting agenda will 
be posted on ORHP's Web site, http://www.ruralhealth.hrsa.gov.

    Dated: August 2, 2002.
Jane M. Harrison,
Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
[FR Doc. 02-20040 Filed 8-7-02; 8:45 am]
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