Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration

Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB

Review; Comment Request

Periodically, the Health Resources and Services Administration

(HRSA) publishes abstracts of information collection requests under

review by the Office of Management and Budget, in compliance with the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a

copy of the clearance requests submitted to OMB for review, call the

HRSA Reports Clearance Officer on (301)-443-1129.

The following request has been submitted to the Office of

Management and Budget for review under the Paperwork Reduction Act of

1995:

Evaluation of the Effectiveness and Impact of Community Health

Centers--New--A mail survey will be conducted of fifty community health

centers (CHCs) to collect information on characteristics of health

centers (e.g., patients, services, staffing, financing and

participation in managed care) during 1992. The survey is one component

of an evaluation of community health centers that examines utilization

and expenditures among Medicaid CHC users and non-users, using a sample

of 50 health centers in 10 states. The survey will collect data that

supplement information already available from health center annual

reports, reviews and grant applications. Together with the secondary

data, the survey results provide the basis for characterizing

attributes of the CHC delivery system and examining whether features of

the CHC delivery model assist in explaining observed differentials in

use and expenditures among CHC users. The survey will be mailed to CHC

Executive Directors, who are expected to delegate portions of the

questionnaire to staff for completion. Burden estimates are as follows:

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Average

Number of Responses burden per Total

Type of respondent respondents per response burden

respondent (hours) hours

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Community Health Centers.................................... 50 1 7 350

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Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed

information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to:

Virginia Huth, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of Management

and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, D.C.

20503.

Dated: May 29, 1996.

J. Henry Montes,

Associate Administrator for Policy Coordination.

[FR Doc. 96-13879 Filed 6-3-96; 8:45 am]

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