[Federal Register: September 5, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 171)]
[Notices]
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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-second meeting.
Name: National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human
Services.
Dates and Times: September 28, 2006, 2 p.m.-5:30 p.m.; September
29, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; September 30, 2006, 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Place: Center for Rural Health, University of North Dakota, 501
N. Columbia Rd., Grand Forks, North Dakota 58203; Holiday Inn Grand
Forks, 1210 N 43rd Street, Grand Forks, North Dakota 58203; Spirit
Lake Casino and Resort, 7889 Highway 57, St. Michael, North Dakota
58370, Phone: 701-766-4747.
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: Thursday afternoon, September 28, at 2 p.m., a press
conference with be held with the Chairperson of the Committee, the
Honorable David Beasley. The meeting will begin at 2:30 p.m., at the
University of North Dakota, with opening remarks by the Honorable
David Beasley. Introductions will be made by Mary Wakefield,
Associate Dean for Rural Health and Director of the Center for Rural
Health at the University of North Dakota and Charles Kupchella,
President of the University of North Dakota. This will be followed
by a brief history of North Dakota by Mike Jacobs (invited speaker),
editor of the Grand Forks Herald, and an overview of rural health
innovation by Bruce Gjovig with the Center for Innovation and Rural
Technology Center. The next session will be an overview of the Rural
Assistance Center by Kristine Sande. The final session of the day
will be a discussion on the purpose of the site visits and future
agenda setting led by the Honorable David Beasley and Tom Morris,
Committee Executive Secretary. The Thursday meeting will close at
5:30 p.m.
Friday morning, September 29, at 8:30 a.m., the Committee will
convene at the Holiday Inn Grand Forks, Grand Forks, North Dakota.
The meeting will begin with an explanation of the day and an
overview of the site visits. At 9 a.m., the Committee will break
into subcommittee format for the site visits. At 9:15 a.m., the
Medicare Advantage Subcommittee will depart for Mercy Hospital in
Devils Lake, North Dakota. Also, at 9:15 a.m., the Head Start
Subcommittee will depart for the Early Explorers Head Start Program
in Devils Lake, North Dakota. The Substance Abuse Subcommittee will
depart for the Center for Solutions, Towner County Medical Center in
Cando, North Dakota, at 9:30 a.m. Transportation to these sites will
not be provided. The Subcommittees will return to Spirit Lake Casino
and Resort in St. Michael, North Dakota, for the remainder of the
meeting. The Subcommittees will meet at 2:15 p.m. to discuss the
site visits. The Committee of the whole will reconvene at 3:30 p.m.
for a discussion of the 2007 report topics. The Friday meeting will
close at 4:30 p.m.
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The final session will be convened Saturday morning, September
30, at 9 a.m. The Committee will review the discussion of the 2007
Workplan, have updates on the Subcommittee site visits and discuss
the letter to the Secretary. The meeting will be adjourned at 10:30
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.
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.
Dated: August 28, 2006.
Cheryl R. Dammons,
Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
[FR Doc. E6-14587 Filed 9-1-06; 8:45 am]
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