[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 103 (Wednesday, May 30, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30015-30016]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 07-2683]


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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-sixth meeting.

    Name: National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human 
Services.
    Dates and Times: June 10, 2007, 1 p.m.-5:45 p.m., June 11, 2007, 
8:45 a.m.-5 p.m., June 12, 2007, 8:50 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
    Place: Fort Collins Hilton, 425 Prospect Road, Fort Collins, CO 
80526, Phone: 970-482-2626.
    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, June 10, at 1 p.m., the meeting will 
be called to order by the Chairperson of the Committee, the 
Honorable David Beasley. Jim Wescott, Senior Demographer with 
Colorado State will be give an overview of Rural Colorado. Following 
this presentation will be two panels on health and human services 
issues. The first will be an health panel. The speakers will be Mark 
Wallace, President of Northern Colorado Health Alliance, and Dr. 
Jack Westfall, Associate Dean for Rural Health at the Colorado 
University School of Medicine. The second will be a human services 
panel. The speakers will be Patricia Brewster-Willeke, a Public 
Health Nurse, and Kindra Mulch, Administrator of Kit Carson County 
Health and Human Services. Following the panel discussions will be 
an overview of Monday's site visits by Lou Ann Wilroy with the 
Colorado State Office of Rural Health. The Sunday meeting will close 
at 5:45 p.m.
    Monday morning, June 11, at 8:30 a.m., the Committee will break 
into Subcommittee format for the site visits. At 8:45 a.m., both 
Subcommittees will depart for site visits. The Health Subcommittee 
will depart to East Morgan County Hospital in Brush, Colorado. The 
Human Services Subcommittee will depart to the Area Agency on Aging 
in Fort Morgan, Colorado. Transportation to these sites will not be 
provided. Both Subcommittees will return to Fort Collins Hilton and 
resume meeting in Subcommittee format at 4 p.m. The Monday meeting 
will close at 5 p.m.
    The final session will be convened Tuesday morning, June 12, at 
8:50 a.m. A Committee member, Mayor Larry Otis, will present a case 
study titled Employee Health Care in Rural Mississippi. Following 
this presentation will be a review of the site visits, discussion on 
the letter to the Secretary, and discussion of the upcoming 
September meeting. The meeting will be adjourned at 10:45 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.

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    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.
    Due to scheduling difficulties, this notice will publish in the 
Federal Register less than 15 days before the date of the meeting.

    Dated: May 24, 2007.
Caroline Lewis,
Associate Administrator for Management.
[FR Doc. 07-2683 Filed 5-25-07; 10:55 am]
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