[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 161 (Monday, August 22, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48963-48964]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-16500]


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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-first meeting:
    Name: National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human 
Services.
    Dates and Times: September 18, 2005, 1:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.; September 
19, 2005, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.; and September 20, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.

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    Place: Spring Creek Ranch, 1800 Spirit Dance Road, Jackson Hole, WY 
83001, Phone: 307-733-8833.
    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, September 18, at 1:30 p.m., the 
Chairperson, the Honorable David Beasley, will open the meeting and 
welcome the Committee. The Committee will hear a presentation on the 
State of Wyoming from Dr. Brent Sherard, Director of Wyoming Department 
of Health, and Dr. Robert Kelley, Dean of College of Health Sciences, 
University of Wyoming. Following this presentation will be a panel on 
pharmacy issues by representatives from the PharmAssist Program and the 
National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program for Pharmacists. 
The next presentation on Health Information Technology (HIT) will 
feature John Snow who will discuss the statewide HIT survey. The final 
session of the day will be a presentation on family caregiver support 
for rural elderly by Bev Morrow with the Department of Health, Aging 
Division. The Sunday meeting will close at 5:15 p.m.
    Monday morning, September 19, at 8 a.m., the Committee will have an 
overview of the day's site visits and break into Subcommittees. The 
Family Caregiver Subcommittee will depart for Intermountain Healthcare 
in Afton, WY, at 8:45 a.m. The Pharmacy and HIT Subcommittees will 
depart for St. John's Medical Center in Jackson, WY, at 9 a.m. 
Transportation to these sites will not be provided to the public. The 
Subcommittees will reconvene at Spring Creek Ranch at 2 p.m. and break 
into subcommittee discussions. The Committee of the whole will 
reconvene at 4:30 p.m. for a brief discussion of the workplan. The 
Monday meeting will close at 5 p.m.
    The final session will be convened Tuesday morning, September 20, 
at 8:30 a.m. The Committee will review the discussion of the 2006 
Workplan and have updates on the Subcommittees site visits. The meeting 
will be adjourned at 10:30 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.
    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.

    Dated: August 15, 2005.
Tina M. Cheatham,
Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
[FR Doc. 05-16500 Filed 8-19-05; 8:45 am]
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