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Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 185 / Monday, September 25, 2006 / Notices
FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Formations of, Acquisitions by, and
Mergers of Bank Holding Companies
Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality
The companies listed in this notice
have applied to the Board for approval,
pursuant to the Bank Holding Company
Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841 et seq.)
(BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR Part
225), and all other applicable statutes
and regulations to become a bank
holding company and/or to acquire the
assets or the ownership of, control of, or
the power to vote shares of a bank or
bank holding company and all of the
banks and nonbanking companies
owned by the bank holding company,
including the companies listed below.
The applications listed below, as well
as other related filings required by the
Board, are available for immediate
inspection at the Federal Reserve Bank
indicated. The application also will be
available for inspection at the offices of
the Board of Governors. Interested
persons may express their views in
writing on the standards enumerated in
the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). If the
proposal also involves the acquisition of
a nonbanking company, the review also
includes whether the acquisition of the
nonbanking company complies with the
standards in section 4 of the BHC Act
(12 U.S.C. 1843). Unless otherwise
noted, nonbanking activities will be
conducted throughout the United States.
Additional information on all bank
holding companies may be obtained
from the National Information Center
website at www.ffiec.gov/nic/.
Unless otherwise noted, comments
regarding each of these applications
must be received at the Reserve Bank
indicated or the offices of the Board of
Governors not later than October 20,
2006.
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A. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
(Glenda Wilson, Community Affairs
Officer) 411 Locust Street, St. Louis,
Missouri 63166-2034:
1. Citizens First Corporation, Bowling
Green, Kentucky; to acquire 100 percent
of the voting shares of Kentucky
Banking Centers, Inc., Glasgow,
Kentucky.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, September 20, 2006.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
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Request for Measures of Consumers’
Home Health Care Experiences
Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality (AHRQ), DHHS.
ACTION: Notice of request for measures.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ) is
soliciting the submission of instruments
or items that measure perceptions of
patients and their informal caregivers
regarding the quality of home health
care these patients received from home
health providers, health plans, other
health care providers, stakeholders,
vendors, researchers who include home
health care as part of their research, and
other interested parties. This initiative
is in response to the need to develop a
new CAHPs home health care survey.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services is interested in incorporating
this survey as part of its Home Health
Quality Initiative which is intended to
empower consumers with quality of
care information to make more informed
decisions about their health care while
also encouraging Medicare certified
home health agencies to improve the
quality of care they deliver to all
patients regardless of payer source. The
survey is likely to assess the quality of
care and services provided by nurses,
therapists, home heath aides, medical
social workers, and home health agency
administrative staff.
Based on the agency’s prior consumer
assessment of health care work, there
are several functional areas that this
instrument could assess such as:
Communication; courtesy and respect;
information provided and shared
decision making; coordination/
integration of care; time related issues
(e.g., arrived and departed according to
schedule, amount of time spent, visit
frequency); competence: influence/
control over care giver activities; unmet
need issues, and customer service.
DATES: Please submit instruments and
supporting information on or before
October 25, 2006. AHRQ will not
respond individually to submitters, but
will consider all submitted instruments
and publicly report the results of the
review of the submissions in aggregate.
ADDRESSES: Submissions should include
a brief cover letter, a copy of the
instrument or items for consideration
and supporting information as specified
under the Submission Criteria below.
Submissions may be in the form of a
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letter or e-mail, preferably with an
electronic file as an E-mail attachment.
Responses to this request should be
submitted to: Charles Darby, Center for
Quality Improvement and Patient
Safety, Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality, 540 Gaither Road,
Rockville, MD 20850, Phone: (301) 427–
1324, Fax: (301) 427–1341, E-mail:
charles.darby@ahrq.hhs.gov.
To facilitate handling of submissions,
please include full information about
the instrument developer and/or a
designated contact: (a) Name, (b) title,
(c) organization, (d) mailing address, (e)
telephone number, (f) fax number, and
(g) e-mail address. Also, please submit
a copy of the instrument or items for
consideration, and evidence that meets
the criteria below. It is requested that
citation of a peer-reviewed journal
article pertaining to the instrument to
include the title of the article, author(s),
publication year, journal name, volume,
issue, and page numbers where article
appears, be included, but is not
required. Submitters must also provide
a statement of willingness to grant to
AHRQ the right to use and authorize
others to use submitted measures and
their documentation as part of a
CAHPS-trademarked instrument. This
final CAHPS instrument for collecting
patient perspectives on the quality of
home health care and services will be
made publicly available, free of charge.
Electronic submissions are encouraged.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Charles Darby, at the address above.
Submission Criteria
Instruments submitted should focus
on home health care or closely related
care areas (e.g., home care; personal
assistant services/community based
care) and address areas of interest such
as: communication, information
provided and shared decision making,
courtesy and respect, coordination/
integration, time related issues (e.g.,
arrival an departed according to
schedule, amount of time spent: visit
frequency competence) influence/
control over care giver activities, unmet
need issues, and customer service.
Measures submitted must meet these
criteria to be considered: capture the
patients’ experience of home health care
workers and agency administrative and
demonstrate a high degree of reliability
and validity. Submitters’ willingness to
grant to AHRQ the right to use and
authorize others to the instrument or
item means that the CAHPS trademark
will be applied to a new instrument
combining the best features of all the
submissions as well as any ideas that
may develop from reviewing them. This
will ensure free access to the
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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
Formations of, Acquisitions by, and Mergers of Bank Holding
Companies
The companies listed in this notice have applied to the Board for
approval, pursuant to the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C.
1841 et seq.) (BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR Part 225), and all other
applicable statutes and regulations to become a bank holding company
and/or to acquire the assets or the ownership of, control of, or the
power to vote shares of a bank or bank holding company and all of the
banks and nonbanking companies owned by the bank holding company,
including the companies listed below.
The applications listed below, as well as other related filings
required by the Board, are available for immediate inspection at the
Federal Reserve Bank indicated. The application also will be available
for inspection at the offices of the Board of Governors. Interested
persons may express their views in writing on the standards enumerated
in the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). If the proposal also involves the
acquisition of a nonbanking company, the review also includes whether
the acquisition of the nonbanking company complies with the standards
in section 4 of the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1843). Unless otherwise noted,
nonbanking activities will be conducted throughout the United States.
Additional information on all bank holding companies may be obtained
from the National Information Center website at www.ffiec.gov/nic/.
Unless otherwise noted, comments regarding each of these
applications must be received at the Reserve Bank indicated or the
offices of the Board of Governors not later than October 20, 2006.
A. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (Glenda Wilson, Community
Affairs Officer) 411 Locust Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63166-2034:
1. Citizens First Corporation, Bowling Green, Kentucky; to acquire
100 percent of the voting shares of Kentucky Banking Centers, Inc.,
Glasgow, Kentucky.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, September 20,
2006.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. E6-15660 Filed 9-22-06; 8:45 am]
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