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Many health care management education programs surveyed by the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education in 20 countries reported challenges placing students in real-world experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Respondents in a report predict only one-third of programs will return to mostly face-to-face education after the pandemic.
The report can be obtained at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i2E3bZGg5EHB--hX6ZV5GV_LwQ7Ij0HK/view.
The House Appropriations has released new guidelines on Community Project Funding (earmarks) for FY 23. Each Member of the House may request up to 15 Community Project Funding grants for projects within their districts. While the deadline for Member submissions to the Committee will be at the end of April, each Member’s office may set a different deadline for when the requests must be submitted to their respective offices. Institutions that are considering making a request should check with their respective House Member’s office for their deadline.
More details may be accessed here.
The National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education has announced its call for abstracts for the Nexus Summit 2022, which will include both in-person and virtual experiences.
More details may be accessed here.
The IPEC Interprofessional Leadership Development Program (ILDP) is a three-day, interactive professional development experience, distinguished by an emphasis on leading in an interprofessional environment. Facilitated by the Academy for Advancing Leadership (AAL), the ILDP engages leaders responsible for the development, implementation, and assessment of campus-wide interprofessional education (IPE) initiatives, and residency/fellowship leaders in IPE for collaborative practice (IPECP).
The ILDP supports IPEC's goal to prepare leaders to advance interprofessional education and interprofessional practice efforts within their institutions. Since 2017, nearly 150 faculty and administrators from health professions education have participated in IPEC's leadership program.
Learn more and register here.
With American Rescue Plan funding, the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) has led efforts that include: Providing access to COVID-19 testing, treatment, and vaccine administration to underserved populations across the country; Supporting health centers on the front lines; Strengthening and expanding support for families and children, from essential supplies such as diapers, wipes, and hand sanitizers to integrating mental health services into pediatric care; and Expanding and supporting the health care workforce.
A Fact Sheet can be obtained at American Rescue Plan One year Anniversary (hrsa.gov).
On Wednesday, March 23, the Senate HELP Committee will hold a hearing entitled, “Strengthening Federal Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Programs: Opportunities, Challenges, and Emerging Issues”. Witnesses testimony will be provided from leadership of SAMHSA, HRSA, and NIH.
More details may be accessed here.
According to a new study of primary care in 11 wealthy countries, the United States lags far behind on multiple measures of access to services and coordination of patient care. A report that draws on Commonwealth Fund survey data finds that: U.S. adults are least likely to have a primary care home; access to home visits or after-hours care is lowest in the U.S.; and just half of U.S. primary care physicians report adequate coordination with specialists and hospitals.
The report can be obtained at Primary Care in High-Income Countries: How United States Compares | Commonwealth Fund.
On Tuesday, the Senate HELP Committee advanced the PREVENT Pandemics by a vote of 20-2. The legislation aims to strengthen the U.S. public health and medical preparedness and response system and reflects ideas from 41 bills.
More details may be accessed here.
On Thursday, the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Energy and Commerce will hold a legislative hearing entitled, "The Future of Medicine: Legislation to Encourage Innovation and Improve Oversight." The hearing will focus on 22 bills to streamline development and approval processes for drugs and therapeutics, strengthen program integrity, and improve diversity and equity in biomedical research. The hearing will begin at 10:30am Eastern and will be streamed live.
More details may be accessed here.
This week is the third and final session of the Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking for higher education, as the Institutional and Programmatic Eligibility Committee meets March 14-18. ASAHP submitted comments to the committee to express concern that should the proposed language move forward, the impact and efficacy of the gains from state authorization reciprocity under State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements will be nullified, and that postsecondary institutions and their out-of-state distance education students will be negatively impacted as a result. ASAHP joins NC-SARA in recommending language to preserve the value and benefits of State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements.
ASAHP’s letter to the negotiated rulemaking committee may be accessed here. More details on the Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking may be accessed here.
Congress introduced its long awaited $1.5 trillion FY 22 omnibus funding bill. The twelve annual bills provide $730 billion in nondefense funding, a $46 billion (6.7 percent) increase over FY 21 (the largest increase in non-defense programs in four years), and $782 billion in defense funding, a $42 billion (5.6 percent) increase FY 21. The House is expected to pass the omnibus today and then send it to the Senate for passage in the upper chamber.
On Tuesday, March 15, at 10am Eastern, the Senate HELP Committee will hold a markup of S. 3799, the PREVENT Pandemics Act. Earlier this year the Committee released a discussion draft and section-by-section of the bill. The legislation aims to strengthen the nation’s public health and medical preparedness and response systems in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
More details may be accessed here.
Clinical research is critical to developing new treatments and therapies for patients. To maximize societal benefit and health equity, it is important that clinical research information be accessible and inclusive, and participants should be representative of the patient population. To explore the role that patient comprehension of clinical research can have in delivering high-quality clinical care and in increasing the diversity of the populations enrolled in clinical research, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Roundtable on Health Literacy held a virtual public workshop on October 28, 2021.
Workshop proceedings can be obtained at Adoption of Health Literacy Best Practices to Enhance Clinical Research and Community Participation: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief | The National Academies Press (nap.edu).
A new Commonwealth Fund brief discusses 10 key lessons from recent federal attempts to increase payment for primary care providers and improve Medicare beneficiaries’ access to their services.
The brief can be obtained at Increasing Medicare’s Investment in Primary Care | Commonwealth Fund.
Today the White House released its National COVID-19 Preparedness Plan. This plan lays out a roadmap to help fight COVID-19 in the future as we begin to get back to our more normal routines. The President’s National COVID-19 Preparedness Plan focuses on four key goals: protect against and treat COVID-19, prepare for new variants, prevent economic and educational shutdowns, and continue to vaccinate the world.
A new IN FOCUS report from the Congressional Research Service accompanies the CRS Issues and Policy Seminar “COVID-19: The Way Forward,” in which CRS analysts and attorneys present on various aspects of U.S. government domestic and global pandemic responses and congressional actions and options.
The report can be obtained at https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/IF12051.pdf.
A new report from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) updates a previous one that showed maternal mortality rates for 2018 and 2019. In 2020, 861 women were identified as having died of maternal causes in the United States, compared with 754 in 2019. The maternal mortality rate for 2020 was 23.8 deaths per 100,000 live births compared with a rate of 20.1 in 2019. In 2020, the maternal mortality rate for non-Hispanic Black women was 55.3 deaths per 100,000 live births, 2.9 times the rate for non-Hispanic White women (19.1).
Additional information can be obtained at https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/maternal-mortality/2020/maternal-mortality-rates-2020.htm.
On Thursday evening the Senate passed by voice vote the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act. The bill passed the House in December 2021. The bill authorizes the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award grants or contract to health care entities, including entities that provide health care services, such as hospitals, community health centers, and rural health clinics, or to medical professional associations, to establish or enhance evidence-based or evidence-informed programs dedicated to improving mental health and resiliency for health care professionals. In addition, HHS may award grants to health professions schools, academic health centers, State or local governments, Indian Tribes or Tribal organizations, or other appropriate public or private nonprofit entities (or consortia of entities, including entities promoting multidisciplinary approaches) to support the training of health care students, residents, or health care professionals in evidence-based or evidence-informed strategies to address mental and substance use disorders and improve mental health and resiliency among health care professionals.
More details may be accessed here.
Each year, ASAHP along with CastleBranch sponsors a scholarship program for allied health students enrolled in its member institutions. The purpose is to recognize outstanding students in the allied health professions who excel in their academic programs and have significant potential to assume future leadership roles in the allied health professions. Each student chosen for an award will receive a $1,000 scholarship. The most exemplary Scholarship of Excellence recipient will also receive the “Elwood Scholar” award, qualifying an additional $1,000 in scholarship funds. We are now accepting applications for this year’s awards. The deadline is Friday, June 3, 2022.
More information may be accessed here.
