[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 52 (Tuesday, March 18, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15132-15133]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-05950]


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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 April 
2014.
    The National Advisory Committee on Rural Health will convene its 
seventy fifth meeting in the time and place specified below:

    Name: National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human 
Services.
    Dates and Time: April 28, 2014, 8:45 a.m.-5:30 p.m. April 29, 
2014, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. April 30, 2014, 8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
    Place: University of Nebraska Medical Center, Michael F. Sorrell 
Center for Health Science Education, 649 South 42nd Street, Omaha, 
NE 68105, (402) 559-8550.
    Status: The meeting will be open to the public.
    Purpose: The National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and 
Human Services (the Committee) provides counsel 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 8:45 a.m., the meeting will be called 
to order by the Chairperson of the Committee: the Honorable Ronnie 
Musgrove. The Committee will assess how rural residents are served 
by the new insurance coverage opportunities afforded by the 
Affordable Care Act. The Committee will also examine the issue of 
rural homelessness. The day will conclude with a period of public 
comment at approximately 5:00 p.m.
    Tuesday morning at approximately 9:00 a.m., the Committee will 
break into Subcommittees and depart for site visits to health care 
and human services' providers in Iowa and Nebraska. One panel from 
the Health Subcommittee will visit Nemaha County Hospital in Auburn, 
Nebraska. Another panel from the Health Subcommittee will visit 
Myrtue Medical Center in Harlan, Iowa. The Human Services 
Subcommittee will visit the Northeast Nebraska Community Action 
Partnership, in Fremont, Nebraska. The day will conclude at the 
Sorrell Center for Health Science Education with a period

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of public comment at approximately 5:15 p.m.
    Wednesday morning at 8:30 a.m., the Committee will meet to 
summarize key findings and develop a work plan for the next quarter 
and the following meeting.

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) 443-7322, fax (301) 443-2803.
    Persons interested in attending any portion of the meeting should 
contact Kristen Lee at the Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP) via 
telephone at (301) 443-6884 or by email at [email protected]. The 
Committee meeting agenda will be posted on ORHP's Web site http://www.hrsa.gov/advisorycommittees/rural/.

    Dated: March 12, 2014.
Jackie Painter,
Deputy Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2014-05950 Filed 3-17-14; 8:45 am]
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