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information request collection title for
reference.
Information Collection Request Title:
Small Rural Hospital Transition Project
(SRHT), OMB No. 0906–0026—
Extension.
Abstract: Under Section 330A of the
Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C.
254c), the Federal Office of Rural Health
Policy (FORHP) funds grant programs
supporting expanding access to,
coordinating, restraining the cost of, and
improving the quality of essential health
care services in rural and frontier
communities. Small rural hospitals are
facing many challenges in the new
health care environment including the
concurrent need to better measure and
account for quality of care in all
settings, improve transitions of care as
patients move from one care setting to
another, the evolution of new payment
approaches such as value-based
purchasing, and new approaches to care
delivery such as accountable care
organizations (ACO) and patientcentered medical homes. Success in this
new environment will require bridging
the gaps between the current system and
the newly emerging system of
healthcare delivery and payment.
Because little is known about how these
new models might impact rural
communities, there is a need to help
hospitals understand and consider those
factors that would make them logical
participants in health care systems that
focus on quality, rather than the
quantity of care provided to patients.
The Small Rural Hospital Transition
(SRHT), also funded by Section 330A,
assists small rural hospitals facing these
challenges. The purpose of the project is
to provide on-site technical assistance to
nine small rural hospitals residing in
persistent poverty counties. Technical
assistance is provided in the areas of: (1)
Conducting financial assessments, (2)
creating a quality-focused environment,
(3) aligning services to community need,
and (4) to the extent that financial and
quality core areas have been stabilized,
providing assistance to help recipients
of technical assistance consider factors
that would make them logical
participants in health care systems that
focus on value (e.g., ACOs, shared
savings programs, and primary care
medical homes).
Need and Proposed Use of the
Information: This information collection
request consists of two forms: The SRHT
Online Application and the Assessment.
The application form is designed to
solicit information that will be scored
and ranked to aid in the selection of
nine small rural hospitals to receive onsite technical assistance. The
assessment determines applicant
capacity in specific key areas leading to
performance excellence across the
organization (e.g., leadership, strategic
planning, operations, and processes).
Likely Respondents: The likely
respondents are small rural hospitals
located in a rural community. Hospitals
must be (1) rural, as defined by FORHP
and reside in a persistent poverty
county or (2) reside in the rural census
tract of a metro county (non-rural
county) that is also a persistent poverty
county and have 49 staffed beds or less
as reported on the hospital’s most
recently filed Medicare Cost Report.
Hospitals may be for-profit or not-forprofit.
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
Number of
respondents
Form name
Number of
responses per
respondent
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
Total
responses
Total
SRHT Online Application .....................................................
Assessment: Performance Excellence for Rural Hospitals
30
30
1
1
30
30
.50
.25
15.0
7.5
Total ..............................................................................
* 30
........................
60
........................
22.5
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* The same individuals complete the SRHT Online Application and the Assessment for a total of 30 respondents.
HRSA specifically requests comments
on: (1) The necessity and utility of the
proposed information collection for the
proper performance of the agency’s
functions; (2) the accuracy of the
estimated burden; (3) ways to enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (4) the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology to minimize the information
collection burden.
Maria G. Button,
Director, Division of the Executive Secretariat.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services
Administration
Solicitation of Nominations for
Membership To Serve on the Advisory
Committee on Organ Transplantation
Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA), Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Request for nominations.
AGENCY:
HRSA is seeking nominations
of qualified candidates to be considered
for appointment as members of the
Advisory Committee on Organ
Transplantation (ACOT). ACOT shall:
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(1) Advise the Secretary, acting through
the HRSA Administrator, on all aspects
of organ donation, procurement,
allocation, and transplantation, and on
such other matters that the Secretary
determines; (2) advise the Secretary on
federal efforts to maximize the number
of deceased donor organs made
available for transplantation and to
support the safety of living organ
donation; (3) at the request of the
Secretary, review significant proposed
Organ Procurement and Transplantation
Network (OPTN) policies submitted for
the Secretary’s approval to recommend
whether they should be made
enforceable; and (4) provide expert
input to the Secretary on the latest
advances in the science of
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transplantation, the OPTN’s system of
collecting, disseminating, and ensuring
the validity, accuracy, timeliness, and
usefulness of data, and additional
medical, public health, patient safety,
ethical, legal, financial coverage, social
science, and socioeconomic issues that
are relevant to transplantation.
Authority: As provided by 42 CFR
121.12, the Secretary established ACOT.
ACOT is governed by the Federal
Advisory Committee Act (FACA; 5
U.S.C. Appendix 2), which sets forth
standards for the formation and use of
advisory committees.
DATES: Written nominations for
membership on the ACOT will be
received continuously.
ADDRESSES: Nomination packages must
be submitted to the Executive Secretary,
ACOT, Healthcare Systems Bureau,
HRSA, Room 08W60, 5600 Fishers
Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857.
Federal Express, Airborne, UPS, etc.,
mail delivery should be addressed to
Executive Secretary, Advisory
Committee on Organ Transplantation,
Healthcare Systems Bureau, HRSA, at
the above address, or sent via email to:
ACOTHRSA@hrsa.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Robert Walsh, Executive Secretary,
ACOT, at (301) 443–6839 or email
rwalsh@hrsa.gov. A copy of the ACOT
charter and list of current membership
may be accessed through the ACOT
website at https://www.organdonor.gov/
about-dot/acot.html.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: ACOT was
established by the Amended Final Rule
of the Organ Procurement and
Transplantation Network (OPTN) (42
CFR part 121) and, by Public Law 92–
463, was chartered on September 1,
2000. ACOT meets up to three times
during the fiscal year.
Nominations: HRSA is requesting
nominations for voting members to
serve as Special Government Employees
(SGEs) on ACOT. The Secretary
appoints ACOT SGEs with the expertise
needed to fulfill the duties of the
committee. HRSA is seeking nominees
knowledgeable in such fields as
deceased and living organ donation,
health care public policy,
transplantation medicine and surgery,
critical care medicine and other medical
specialties involved in the identification
and referral of donors, non-physician
transplant professions, nursing,
epidemiology, immunology, law and
bioethics, behavioral sciences,
economics, and statistics. HRSA is also
seeking transplant candidates,
transplant recipients, living organ
donors, and family members of
deceased and living organ donors to
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serve as members. SGEs shall not serve
while they are also serving on the OPTN
Board of Directors. Interested applicants
may self-nominate or be nominated by
another individual or organization.
Individuals selected for appointment
to ACOT will be invited to serve for upto 4 years. Members appointed as SGEs
receive a stipend and reimbursement for
per diem and travel expenses incurred
for attending ACOT meetings and/or
conducting other business on behalf of
ACOT, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5703
of the Federal Travel Regulation for
persons employed intermittently in
government service.
The following information must be
included in the package of materials
submitted for each individual being
nominated for consideration: (1) A letter
of nomination stating the name,
affiliation, and contact information for
the nominee, the basis for the
nomination (i.e., what specific
attributes, perspectives, and/or skills
does the individual possess that would
benefit the workings of ACOT), and the
nominee’s field(s) of expertise; (2) a
biographical sketch of the nominee; (3)
the name, address, daytime telephone
number, and email address at which the
nominator can be contacted; and (4) a
current copy of the nominee’s
curriculum vitae. Nomination packages
may be submitted directly by the
individual being nominated or by the
person/organization recommending the
candidate.
HRSA will try to ensure that ACOT
membership of is balanced in terms of
points of view represented.
Accordingly, the Agency will consider
for membership individuals from broad
and diverse backgrounds, representing
various geographic areas, gender, ethnic,
and minority groups, as well as
individuals with disabilities.
Appointments shall be made without
discrimination on the basis of age,
ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or
cultural, religious, or socioeconomic
status.
Individuals selected to be considered
for appointment will be required to
provide detailed information regarding
their financial holdings, consultancies,
and research grants or contracts.
Disclosure of this information is
required for HRSA ethics officials to
determine whether there is a conflict
between the SGE’s public duties as a
member of ACOT and their private
interests, including an appearance of a
loss of impartiality as defined by federal
laws and regulations, and to identify
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any required remedial action needed to
address the potential conflict.
Maria G. Button,
Director, Division of the Executive Secretariat.
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Enforcement, Administration for
Children and Families, Department of
Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Notice of a new matching
program.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, the
Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS), Administration for
Children and Families (ACF), Office of
Child Support Enforcement (OCSE), is
providing notice of a re-established
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OCSE and state agencies administering
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with new hire, quarterly wage, and
unemployment insurance information
maintained in the National Directory of
New Hires (NDNH). The outcomes of
the comparisons help state agencies
with establishing or verifying eligibility
for applicants and recipients of SNAP
benefits; reducing SNAP benefit errors;
and, maintaining program integrity.
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commence not sooner than 30 days after
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comments are received that warrant a
change to this notice. The matching
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August 16, 2019 through February 15,
2021) and, within three months of
expiration, may be renewed for one
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change to the matching program and
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conducted in compliance with the
agreement.
ADDRESSES: Interested parties may
submit written comments on this notice
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Federal Systems, Office of Child
Support Enforcement, Administration
for Children and Families, by email at
linda.boyer@acf.hhs.gov, or by mail at
Mary E. Switzer Building, 330 C St. SW,
5th Floor, Washington, DC 20201.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Solicitation of Nominations for Membership To Serve on the
Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Request for nominations.
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SUMMARY: HRSA is seeking nominations of qualified candidates to be
considered for appointment as members of the Advisory Committee on
Organ Transplantation (ACOT). ACOT shall: (1) Advise the Secretary,
acting through the HRSA Administrator, on all aspects of organ
donation, procurement, allocation, and transplantation, and on such
other matters that the Secretary determines; (2) advise the Secretary
on federal efforts to maximize the number of deceased donor organs made
available for transplantation and to support the safety of living organ
donation; (3) at the request of the Secretary, review significant
proposed Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) policies
submitted for the Secretary's approval to recommend whether they should
be made enforceable; and (4) provide expert input to the Secretary on
the latest advances in the science of
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transplantation, the OPTN's system of collecting, disseminating, and
ensuring the validity, accuracy, timeliness, and usefulness of data,
and additional medical, public health, patient safety, ethical, legal,
financial coverage, social science, and socioeconomic issues that are
relevant to transplantation.
Authority: As provided by 42 CFR 121.12, the Secretary established
ACOT. ACOT is governed by the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA; 5
U.S.C. Appendix 2), which sets forth standards for the formation and
use of advisory committees.
DATES: Written nominations for membership on the ACOT will be received
continuously.
ADDRESSES: Nomination packages must be submitted to the Executive
Secretary, ACOT, Healthcare Systems Bureau, HRSA, Room 08W60, 5600
Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857. Federal Express, Airborne,
UPS, etc., mail delivery should be addressed to Executive Secretary,
Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation, Healthcare Systems Bureau,
HRSA, at the above address, or sent via email to: [email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert Walsh, Executive Secretary,
ACOT, at (301) 443-6839 or email [email protected]. A copy of the ACOT
charter and list of current membership may be accessed through the ACOT
website at https://www.organdonor.gov/about-dot/acot.html.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: ACOT was established by the Amended Final
Rule of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) (42
CFR part 121) and, by Public Law 92-463, was chartered on September 1,
2000. ACOT meets up to three times during the fiscal year.
Nominations: HRSA is requesting nominations for voting members to
serve as Special Government Employees (SGEs) on ACOT. The Secretary
appoints ACOT SGEs with the expertise needed to fulfill the duties of
the committee. HRSA is seeking nominees knowledgeable in such fields as
deceased and living organ donation, health care public policy,
transplantation medicine and surgery, critical care medicine and other
medical specialties involved in the identification and referral of
donors, non-physician transplant professions, nursing, epidemiology,
immunology, law and bioethics, behavioral sciences, economics, and
statistics. HRSA is also seeking transplant candidates, transplant
recipients, living organ donors, and family members of deceased and
living organ donors to serve as members. SGEs shall not serve while
they are also serving on the OPTN Board of Directors. Interested
applicants may self-nominate or be nominated by another individual or
organization.
Individuals selected for appointment to ACOT will be invited to
serve for up-to 4 years. Members appointed as SGEs receive a stipend
and reimbursement for per diem and travel expenses incurred for
attending ACOT meetings and/or conducting other business on behalf of
ACOT, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5703 of the Federal Travel Regulation
for persons employed intermittently in government service.
The following information must be included in the package of
materials submitted for each individual being nominated for
consideration: (1) A letter of nomination stating the name,
affiliation, and contact information for the nominee, the basis for the
nomination (i.e., what specific attributes, perspectives, and/or skills
does the individual possess that would benefit the workings of ACOT),
and the nominee's field(s) of expertise; (2) a biographical sketch of
the nominee; (3) the name, address, daytime telephone number, and email
address at which the nominator can be contacted; and (4) a current copy
of the nominee's curriculum vitae. Nomination packages may be submitted
directly by the individual being nominated or by the person/
organization recommending the candidate.
HRSA will try to ensure that ACOT membership of is balanced in
terms of points of view represented. Accordingly, the Agency will
consider for membership individuals from broad and diverse backgrounds,
representing various geographic areas, gender, ethnic, and minority
groups, as well as individuals with disabilities. Appointments shall be
made without discrimination on the basis of age, ethnicity, gender,
sexual orientation, or cultural, religious, or socioeconomic status.
Individuals selected to be considered for appointment will be
required to provide detailed information regarding their financial
holdings, consultancies, and research grants or contracts. Disclosure
of this information is required for HRSA ethics officials to determine
whether there is a conflict between the SGE's public duties as a member
of ACOT and their private interests, including an appearance of a loss
of impartiality as defined by federal laws and regulations, and to
identify any required remedial action needed to address the potential
conflict.
Maria G. Button,
Director, Division of the Executive Secretariat.
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