[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 100 (Tuesday, May 25, 2010)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-12515]



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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 sixty-third meeting.

    Name: National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human 
Services.
    Dates and Times: June 14, 2010, 9 a.m.-4:45 p.m.
June 15, 2010, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.
June 16, 2010, 8:45 a.m.-11 a.m.
    Place: Doubletree Guest Suites Charleston-Historic District, 181 
Church Street, Charleston, SC 29401.
    Phone: 843-577-2644.
    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: Monday morning, at 9 a.m., the meeting will be called to 
order by the Chairperson of the Committee, the Honorable David 
Beasley. The first two presentations will be overviews of rural 
South Carolina. The remainder of the day the Committee will hear 
presentations on the three chosen Subcommittee topics. The first 
panel will focus on childhood obesity in rural communities. The 
second panel will focus on rural implications of the HHS Caring 
Communities for Young Children Initiative. The final panel of the 
day is focusing on the rural implications of payment bundling and 
accountable care organizations. After the panel discussions, the 
Committee Chair will give an overview of the site visits. This will 
be followed by a call for public comment. The Monday meeting will 
close at 4:45 p.m.
    Tuesday morning, at 8:30 a.m., the Committee will break into 
Subcommittees and depart to the site visits. The Childhood Obesity 
Subcommittee and the Young Children's Initiative Subcommittee will 
meet at Eat Smart, Move More--Walterboro, SC. The Payment Bundling 
Subcommittee will meet in Manning, SC at Clarendon Memorial 
Hospital. The subcommittees will return to the Doubletree Hotel in 
Charleston at 4 p.m. Transportation to the site visits will not be 
provided to the public. The Tuesday meeting will close at 4 p.m.
    The final session will be convened on Wednesday morning at 8:45 
a.m. The meeting will open with a review of the Subcommittee site 
visits. The staff of the Office of Rural Health Policy will provide 
an update on the Department of Health and Human Services. The 
Committee will draft a letter to the Secretary or Designee and 
discuss the September 2010 meeting. The meeting will be adjourned at 
11 a.m.


FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas Morris, MPA, Acting Executive 
Secretary, National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human 
Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Parklawn 
Building, Room 10B-45, 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), and 
Telephone (301) 443-0835. The Committee meeting agenda will be posted 
on ORHP's Web site http://www.ruralhealth.hrsa.gov.

    Dated: May 19, 2010.
Sahira Rafiullah,
Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
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