Rural Health. If the Rural Health Program is enacted by the Legislature, the State will meet and confer over implementation of this program.
Rural Health. The State and IUOE agree to meet as soon as possible to negotiate alternatives to the current Rural Health Care Program. If the parties reach agreement on an alternative program it will become effective January 1, 2002 or a date agreed to by the parties.
Rural Health. The agreement requests CDC assess and submit a report within 180 days of enactment of this Act on the agen- cy’s rural-focused efforts and how to strengthen such efforts. The report shall in- clude a review of CDC’s recent work to ad- dress public health needs in rural America, a catalogue of CDC staff who have been specifi- cally devoted to these activities, and a pro- fessional budget justification of what addi- tional activities CDC would undertake in this area, given additional resources. National Institutes of Health (NIH) The agreement provides $44,959,000,000 for NIH, including $496,000,000 from the 21st Cen- tury Cures Act (P.L. 114–255), an increase of $2,250,000,000, or 5.3 percent, above fiscal year 2021. The agreement provides a funding in- crease of no less than 3.4 percent above fiscal year 2021 to every Institute and Center (IC). The agreement appropriates funds author- ized in the 21st Century Cures Act. Per the authorization, $194,000,000 is transferred to the National Cancer Institute (NCI) for can- cer research; $76,000,000 to the National Insti- tute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) and $76,000,000 to the National Insti- tute on Mental Health (NIMH) for the BRAIN Initiative; and $150,000,000 will be al- located from the NIH Innovation Fund for the All of Us precision medicine initiative. The Common Fund is supported as a set- aside within the Office of the Director at $657,401,000. In addition, $12,600,000 is pro- vided to support pediatric research as au- thorized by the Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx Kids First Research Act (P.L. 113–94). The agreement directs NIH to include up- dates on the following research, projects, and programs in the fiscal year 2023 Congres- sional Justification: closing congenital heart disease research gaps; efforts to enhance childhood cancer research efforts, including coordination efforts already underway through the Trans-NIH Pediatric Research Consortium; Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO), including progress made by ECHO-funded research and efforts to include a larger representation of indigenous children into the national cohort; hearing health screening for older adults; maternal infections; efforts to modernize and improve the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results Registry; and multiple sul- fatase deficiency. NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE (NCI) Cancer Survivorship.—The agreement urges NCI to address the unique needs of cancer survivors by continuing to allocate robust funding f...
