[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 162 (Monday, August 22, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52335-52336]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-21432]


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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), announcement is made of the following 
National Advisory body scheduled to meet during the month of September 
2011.
    The National Advisory Committee on Rural Health will convene its 
sixty-ninth meeting in the time and place specified below:

    Name: National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human 
Services.
    Dates and Time:

September 26, 2011, 12:30 p.m.-5 p.m.
September 27, 2011, 8:45 a.m.-4 p.m.
September 28, 2011, 8:45 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
    Place: Forrest General Hospital, 6051 US Highway 40, 
Hattiesburg, Mississippi 39401.
    Phone: (601) 288-7000.
    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 12:30 p.m., the meeting will be 
called to order by the Chairperson of the Committee, the Honorable 
Ronnie Musgrove. The first two presentations will be overviews of 
rural Mississippi and the Mississippi State Office of Rural Health. 
The remainder of the day the Committee will hear presentations on 
the three chosen Subcommittee topics. The first panel will focus on 
Health Disparities in Rural Communities. The second panel is 
Physician Payment Value Modifier. The final panel of the day is Care 
Transition and Aging and Disability Resource Center Program (ADRC). 
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 5 p.m.
    Tuesday morning, at 8:45 a.m., Steve Hirsch, Executive 
Secretariat for the NACRHHS, will provide a Departmental Update. At 
9:15 a.m., the Committee will break into Subcommittees and depart to 
the site visits. The Health Disparities Subcommittee will visit a 
Federally Qualified Healthcare Center in New Augusta, Perry County; 
and the Physician Payment Value Modifier Subcommittee will visit the 
Covington County Hospital in Collins, Mississippi. The Care 
Transitions and ADRC Subcommittee will visit Forrest General 
Hospital in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The Subcommittees will return 
to the Forrest General Hospital in Hattiesburg at 3:30 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 Chair of the Committee will lead a Working Session to 
discuss development of the Report to the Secretary. The Committee 
will draft a letter to the Secretary and discuss the agenda for the 
February 2012 meeting. The meeting will be adjourned at 10:30 a.m.
    For Further Information Contact: Steve Hirsch, MSLS, Executive 
Secretary, National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human 
Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Parklawn 
Building, Room 5A-05, 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 Aaron Wingad at the Office of Rural Health Policy 
(ORHP) via Telephone at (301) 443-0835 or by e-mail at 
[email protected]. The Committee meeting agenda will be posted on 
ORHP's Web site: http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-in/leaving.cgi?from=leavingFR.html&log=linklog&to=http://www.ruralhealth.hrsa.gov.


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    Dated: August 16, 2011.
Reva Harris,
Acting Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2011-21432 Filed 8-19-11; 8:45 am]
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