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without their integral involvement. i think from the challenges, the article does that, naming them, talking about them, and trying to understand where there s common ground, there s difficulties figuring out, ultimately with a goal of getting services to people who need them, from a public health evidence based services to people that need them is the end game we want. and then lastly data, we took a cursory look for today. i d like to do more on that, i think that s critical. mark? where you live often changes where you think. where i m located, i don t see the negatives as much as the positives. we re flooded with great opportunities, we can t take in all of them. to see the partnerships that are going on are terrific. so i m very positive on this. i think in terms of addressing the challenges, it is the faith communities can be the trip wires for the challenge and the solution at the same time. we ve had conversations with the north american chair of somalia, ....
form in rural and underserved areas. cms recognizes challenges faced by beneficiaries and providers in rural areas. i look forward to working with hrsa and the congress delivering quality care to medicare beneficiaries regardless of their location. thank you again and i m happy to answer your questions. thank you both. let me answer a couple of questions and we ll do five-minute rounds here. mr. morris, the department the budget the administration submitted would have cut your budget by $20 million. did you ask for that cut? mr. chairman, we support the president s budget and the request that came forward. we think it supports the key programs for our office. includes continued funding for the outreach program, the rural hospital flexibility program. for our policy and research activities and we think those are the programs that can be most effective meeting the needs. where are you going to spend $20 million less than you are spending this year? the president s ....
test new models of telehealth without regard to the geographic barriers and some of the other statutory restrictions. we have a number of very interesting telehealth models that are being tested currently including the health link model i mentioned in my testimony. thank you very much. senator moran? mr. chairman, thank you very much. thank you for you and senator murray having this hearing. a very important one certainly from a senator from kansas. but really for the country. let me start with mr. morris. tell me what statistics are there that demonstrate over a period of time how many rural hospitals are closing or being in addition to that are threatened to close. i ve seen an ap story just in the last few days indicating that 50 rural hospitals have closed that expectations for more a total of 50 hospitals in the rural u.s. have closed since 2010 according to the ap. and the pace has been accelerating with more closures in the past two years than the past ....
early investments in child health and nutrition are crucial. the time period from pregnancy through early childhood is one of rapid physical, cognitive emotional and social development and because of this this time period in a child s life can set the stage for a lifetime of good health and success in learning and relationships or it can be a time of toxic stress when physical, mental, and social health and learning are compromised. micronutrients such as iron and folate have demonstrated effects on brain development but are commonly deficient in pregnant women and young children in the united states. these deficiency cans lead to delays in attention motor development, poor short-term memory and lower i.q. scores. one of the most effective investments congress can make during the prenatal to school age period is to support the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children, or wic and i thank the committee for its strong bipartisan support for wi ....
mr. chairman and members of the committee thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today. my name is george stover, and i serve as the chief executive officer of hospital district number one of rice county in lyons county. lyons has a population of 3800. our community hospital, which first opened in 1959 is a 25-bed critical access hospital that employees approximately 150 individuals. rural community hospitals have a long and distinguished commitmentment of providing care for all who seek it 24/7 365. more than 36% of all kansans live in rural areas and depend on a local hospital serving their community. rural hospitals face a unique set of challenges because of the remote geographic location small size scarce workforce, physician shortages, higher percentage of medicare and medicaid patients and a constrained financial resources that limited access to capital. these challenges alone would make it difficult for many rural hospitals to survive. however, one distu ....