Posts Tagged ‘HRSA’

Approximately 8,000 students and credentialed health care professionals will get the financial backing they need for training by the end of 2010. Read more »

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced, May 28, the release of $81.7 million to expand services offered at the nation’s health centers. On the same day—100 days after the signing of the Recovery Act—HHS also awarded $25.6 million in non-Recovery Act grants to expand medical capacity at 54 existing health centers, helping an additional 230,000 individuals in 25 states receive primary health care services, the agency said.

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Health care organizations, hospitals, and providers, as well as policy makers and schools, have a new tool they can use to help develop strategies to meet future workforce demands. Health Workforce Information Center (HWIC) is an online information resource center providing up-to-date news, data, and research on the nation’s health workforce. Read more on NurseZone.com.

Results from more than 9,000 discussions about health care held throughout the nation in December have been released by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Cost, insurance access, and quality of care were key concerns.

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President Obama is pulling his health care team together.

Monday, he nominated Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius as his choice for secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Monday. As secretary of HHS, Sebelius would oversee a department of 65,000 employees with a budget of more than $700 billion. Sebelius is currently in her second term as govenor of Kansas, where she served as state insurance commissioner for eight years and oversaw the state’s Medicaid program. Read more »