Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Public Comment Request, 59941-59942 [2013-23772]

Agencies

• DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
• Health Resources and Services Administration

[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 189 (Monday, September 30, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59941-59942]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-23772]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for 
Review and Approval; Public Comment Request

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with Section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995, the Health Resources and Services Administration 
(HRSA) has submitted an Information Collection Request (ICR) to the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. Comments 
submitted during the first public review of this ICR will be provided 
to OMB. OMB will accept further comments from the public during the 
review and approval period.

DATES: Comments on this ICR should be received within 30 days of this 
notice.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, including the Information Collection 
Request Title, to the desk officer for HRSA, either by email to OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov or by fax to 202-395-5806.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request a copy of the clearance 
requests submitted to OMB for review, email the HRSA Information 
Collection Clearance Officer at paperwork@hrsa.gov or call (301) 443-
1984.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Information Collection Request Title: National Hospital Organ 
Donation Campaign's Activity Scorecard
    OMB No.: 0915-xxxx--NEW
    Need and Proposed Use of the Information: HRSA's Healthcare Systems 
Bureau, Division of Transplantation, administers the Workplace 
Partnership for Life program under the authority of Section 377A(a) of 
the Public Health Service (PHS) Act, (42 U.S.C. 274f-1). The Workplace 
Partnership for Life program seeks to increase the number of registered 
organ, eye, and tissue donors and to increase awareness about organ 
donation. HRSA launched a challenge to hospitals nationwide to assist 
in this effort by conducting donor education and donor registry 
enrollment events in their hospitals and communities. The nation's 58 
organ procurement organizations (OPOs), who already work with hospitals 
on clinical aspects of transplantation, are invited to participate in 
HRSA's National Hospital Organ Donation Campaign to increase the number 
of enrollments in state donor registries. The Campaign supports OPOs by 
providing communications materials, facilitating the sharing of best 
practices, leveraging the influence of national associations and 
organizations related to hospitals and organ donation, and offering the 
additional incentive of national-level recognition to hospitals.
    The National Hospital Organ Donation Campaign's Activity Scorecard 
is one piece of this campaign. A campaign leadership committee 
comprised of representatives from OPOs, Donate Life America (DLA) 
affiliates, and hospitals helped conceptualize the Activity Scorecard, 
which is based on the committee's experience of hospital receptivity to 
competition and the opportunity to be recognized among their peers. The 
Activity Scorecard provides hospitals, which wish to participate in the 
campaign, with ideas for outreach activities. Each activity on the 
programmable PDF is assigned a particular number of points based on the 
activity's potential for generating registrations.
    Hospitals can complete the Activity Scorecard and submit it via 
email or fax to HRSA or to their OPO or DLA. This is a voluntary 
activity. Hospitals may participate in the campaign without using the 
Activity Scorecard. HRSA anticipates that most hospitals enrolled in 
the campaign (currently 802) will submit a completed Activity Scorecard 
once a year.

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    Most important, the Activity Scorecard provides incentive for 
hospitals to conduct activities that will increase the number of 
registered donors throughout the nation. A list of hospitals that reach 
these levels will be shared with all campaign participants during 
monthly webinars, in monthly campaign e-newsletters from HRSA, and in 
communications pieces sent out by the campaign's ten national partners, 
which include the American Hospital Association, the Association of 
Organ Procurement Organizations, and the American Society of Transplant 
Surgeons. In addition, OPOs, DLA affiliates, participating state 
hospital associations, HRSA, and the national partners can use the 
results to recognize hospital participation and successes. The ``write-
in'' option that allows hospitals to list additional activities will 
help to identify best practices that can be shared with all hospital 
partners on monthly webinars.
    Likely Respondents: A hospital representative, most often the organ 
donation champion identified by the OPO, can download the form from 
organdonor.gov or receive it from their OPO or Donate Life America 
(DLA) affiliate.
    Burden Statement: Burden in this context means the time expended by 
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or provide the 
information requested. This includes the time needed to review 
instructions; to develop, acquire, install and utilize technology and 
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating and verifying 
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and 
providing information; to train personnel and to be able to respond to 
a collection of information; to search data sources; to complete and 
review the collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise 
disclose the information. The total annual burden hours estimated for 
this ICR are summarized in the table below.

                                                        Total Estimated Annualized Burden--Hours
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                                                                                         Number of                       Average burden
                             Form name                                  Number of      responses per   Total responses    per response     Total burden
                                                                       respondents       respondent                        (in hours)         hours
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National Hospital Organ Donation Campaign's Activity Scorecard.....            1000                1             1000             0.36              360
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    Dated: September 20, 2013.
Bahar Niakan,
Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2013-23772 Filed 9-27-13; 8:45 am]
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