[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 122 (Friday, June 24, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 37119]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-15839]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Development of Best Practices for Community Health Needs 
Assessment and Implementation Strategy; Public Forum

AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of 
Health and Human Services (HHS).

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), located 
within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), will hold a 
public forum from July 11-13, 2011 on processes relating to community 
health needs assessment (CHNA) and implementation strategy/plan 
development and execution. HHS/CDC is developing best practices 
designed to support state and local health departments to meet public 
health accreditation standards, and by other entities who may wish to 
utilize them in their community health planning processes. This notice 
announces the public forum.

DATES: The public forum will be held on: Monday, July 11, 2011, from 1 
to 5:30 p.m. EST, Tuesday, July 12, 2011, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST, 
and Wednesday, July 13, 2011, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. EST.

ADDRESSES: The public forum will be held at the Emory Conference Center 
Hotel, 1615 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30329. Please visit the Emory 
Conference Center Hotel Web site for additional information and 
directions to the facility: http://www.emoryconferencecenter.com/map-directions/.
    Registration: HHS/CDC is working with the National Network of 
Public Health Institutes (NNPHI) to manage on-line registration and 
provide logistical support. Participants are encouraged to preregister 
for the public forum. On-line registration and a draft agenda are 
available at: http://www.regonline.com/2011CHNAPublicForum. As space is 
limited, registration is limited to the first 200 registrants. CDC and 
NNPHI will make every effort to accommodate persons with physical 
disabilities or special needs. If you require special accommodations 
due to a disability, please contact Anooj Pattnaik, Project Coordinator 
for NNPHI, at (504) 301-9847 or via e-mail at [email protected] at 
least 7 days in advance of the meeting.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Simeon Niles, Office of Prevention 
Through Healthcare, Office of the Associate Director for Policy, 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, NE., 
Atlanta, Georgia 30333; phone: (404) 639-7522.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As the principal Federal public health 
authority, HHS/CDC intends to develop best practices in CHNA and 
implementation strategy development and execution for improved 
community health outcomes. These best practices are intended to support 
community health planning and implementation activities, including 
national public health accreditation activities wherein state and local 
health departments must conduct ``community health assessments'' and 
develop community health improvement plans. Currently, there is 
considerable variation in CHNA processes, and many available tools lack 
standards to support their use in fulfilling regulatory and 
accreditation requirements. In addition, development of best practices 
in CHNA may assist charitable hospital organizations to conduct a CHNA 
and adopt an implementation strategy, as required by Section 9007(a) of 
the Affordable Care Act (ACA) (Pub. L. 111-148). Additional information 
regarding the CHNA requirement is available at http://www.irs.gov. 
Proceedings from this public forum will be compiled in a report to 
serve as input to the best practices guidelines which CDC intends to 
publish later this year.
    Agenda: The meeting will include presentations related to national 
public health accreditation standards, current practices in CHNA, 
implementation strategy/plan development and execution, and the best 
practices development process. The meeting will consist of panel 
presentations. Participants attending the public forum will be invited 
to provide comment at the end of each panel discussion. NNPHI will make 
every effort to make available to the public the final agenda and 
panelists' presentations two business days before the meeting. The 
final agenda and panelists' presentations will be available at HTTP://
WWW.REGONLINE.COM/2011CHNAPUBLICFORUM. The agenda is subject to change 
without notice. If NNPHI is unable to post the presentations on the 
registration Web site prior to the meeting, the material will be made 
publicly available at the location of the meeting.
    Procedure: Oral comments from the public will be scheduled during 
public comment periods at the end of each panel discussion. Each 
commenter will be limited to 3-5 minutes. If the number of participants 
requesting to comment is greater than can be reasonably accommodated, 
NNPHI may conduct a lottery to determine the speakers for the scheduled 
public comment sessions. Individuals interested in making formal 
comments may submit their comments to the Office of Prevention through 
Healthcare mailbox at: http://www.cdc.gov/policy/opth. Comments must be 
submitted by 5 p.m. on July 20, 2011 and include ``Best Practices 
Guidelines'' in the subject line.

    Dated: June 16, 2011.
Tanya Popovic,
Deputy Associate Director for Science, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2011-15839 Filed 6-23-11; 8:45 am]
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