Notice2024-26925
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Public Comment Request; Rural Health Care Services Outreach Program Measures
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Published
November 19, 2024
Issuing agencies
Health and Human Services DepartmentHealth Resources and Services Administration
Abstract
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, HRSA 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. OMB may act on HRSA's ICR only after the 30-day comment period for this notice has closed.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 223 (Tuesday, November 19, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 91412-91413]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-26925]
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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; Rural Health Care Services
Outreach Program Measures
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department
of Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, HRSA
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. OMB may act on HRSA's ICR only after the 30-day
comment period for this notice has closed.
DATES: Comments on this ICR should be received no later than December
19, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. Find this particular
information collection by selecting ``Currently under Review--Open for
Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request a copy of the clearance
requests submitted to OMB for review, email Joella Roland, the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance Officer, at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#bdcddccdd8cfcad2cfd6fdd5cfcedc93dad2cb"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="9dedfcedf8efeaf2eff6ddf5efeefcb3faf2eb">[email protected]</span></a> or call
(301) 443-3983.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Information Collection Request Title: Rural
Health Care Services Outreach Program Measures, OMB No. 0906-0009--
Revision.
Abstract: The Rural Health Care Services Outreach Program is
authorized by section 330A(e) of the Public Health Service Act (42
U.S.C. 254c(e)) to ``promote rural health care services outreach by
improving and expanding the delivery of health care services to include
new and enhanced services in rural areas.'' The goals for the Rural
Health Care Services Outreach Program are as follows: (1) expand the
delivery of health care services in rural communities; (2) deliver
health care services through a strong consortium, in which every
consortium member organization is actively involved and engaged in the
planning and delivery of services; (3) utilize and/or adapt an
evidence-based or innovative, evidence-informed model(s) in the
delivery of health care services; and (4) improve population health and
demonstrate health outcomes and sustainability. HRSA collects
information from grant recipients that participate in this program
using an OMB-approved set of performance measures and seeks to extend
its approved information collection.
A 60-day notice was published in the Federal Register on June 21,
2024, 89 FR 52069-70. There were no public comments. However, following
publication of the 60-day notice, HRSA increased the average burden per
response and total burden hours due to personnel changes resulting in
training needs of new hires common among rural healthcare workforce in
the Outreach Program.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: For this program,
performance measures were drafted to provide data to the program and to
enable HRSA to provide aggregate program data required by Congress
under the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993. These
measures cover the principal topic areas of interest to the Federal
Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP), including: (1) access to care,
(2) population demographics, (3) consortium/network, (4)
sustainability, (5) project specific domains, and (6) clinical
measures. All measures will speak to FORHP's progress toward meeting
the goals set. FORHP collects this information to quantify the impact
of grant funding on access to health care, quality of services, and
improvement of health outcomes. FORHP uses the data for program
improvement and grantees use the data for performance tracking. No
substantive changes are proposed from the current data collection
effort; FORHP proposes updating hyperlinks for the clinical measures
and including an option for text entry to capture names of counties for
the number of counties served measure.
Likely Respondents: The respondents would be recipients of the
Rural Health Care Services Outreach Program grants.
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 per response Total burden
respondents respondent responses (in hours) hours
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Rural Health Care Services 61 1 61 8 488
Outreach Performance Measures..
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Total....................... 61 .............. 61 .............. 488
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Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2024-26925 Filed 11-18-24; 8:45 am]
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