Is erin bliss, he was with health and Human Services department and is the assistant Inspector General for evaluation and inspections, welcome to the program. Good morning. Remind people of the role ofthe Inspector General office is in comparison to hhs itself. Our mission is to protect the integrity of health and Human Services programs such as medicare and the healthand wellbeing of the people that they serve. So we do oversight and enforcement of the programs of the health and Human Services department. You turn your attention recently to the topic of hospice. Why is that, what are you looking to find out . The health and safety of Medicare Beneficiaries is one of our Top Priorities and help is a particularly vulnerable population so we looked at information about deficiencies being cited at Health Providers related to quality of care and patient harm. Expand on that, what doyou find looking into this . A report shed light on how common it is to have as providers to be sided with so
What you do. Health and wellbeing of the people they serve. We do oversight and enforcement of the programs of the health and Human Services department. Host you turned your attention to the topic of hospice. What were you looking to find out . Health and safety of Medicare Beneficiaries is one of our top priorities. They are a vulnerable population. We looked into information about deficiencies being cited to quality of care and patient harm. Host what did you find looking into this . Guest our report shed light on how common it is for hospice providers to be cited with efficiency with the quality of care they are providing and in some case very serious deficiencies. We uncovered gaps in Patient Protection. We issued a call to the Medicare Program by the centers for medicare and Medicaid Services to help fix these problems. Host what were the worst Case Scenarios with the deficiencies when your department looked into this . Guest we did identify some worstCase Scenarios where patients
An eight minute to nine minute break, so we could make this quick. There is still purpose in the back and if you need to use the restrooms but they are on the outside, so thank you. [indiscernible voices] [indiscernible voices] ok. All right. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for coming back from break. We have had some great panels is morning and we are happy to be invited to participate this morning as well. I am a victim just as Program Specialist for the office of victims of crime at the department or justice Human Trafficking division and i am join today with heather from the texas advocacy project, and Heidi Alvarez with the university of Maryland Safe Center and actually happens to be one of my grantees, so we have worked closely together for four or five years it has been now. So with that, i think, we actually have a bit of the different presentation. We love powerpoint. We are going to use powerpoint. We actually have a few videos that we will include to set the stage on some
The u. S. Chamber is proud to be sponsoring this publication that will be released later this year. That was a quick preview of what is to come. With that said, lets give a round of applause for our first two panels. [applause] and we will take a quick, i say an eight minute to nine minute break, so we could make this quick. There is still purpose in the back and if you need to use the restrooms but they are on the outside, so thank you. [indiscernible voices] [indiscernible voices] ok. All right. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for coming back from break. We have had some great panels is morning and we are happy to be invited to participate this morning as well. I am a victim just as Program Specialist for the office of victims of crime at the department or justice Human Trafficking division and i am join today with heather from the texas advocacy project, and Heidi Alvarez with the university of Maryland Safe Center and actually happens to be one of my grantees, so we have worked c
Research on another asteroid. Good morning, everyone and thank you for being here. It is my pleasure to welcome you to the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History where we are so excited to be able to share a sample of asteroid bennu. Im happy to welcome our friends from nasa, especially my dear friend and colleague, former astronaut and senator, administrator now. You may wonder why the museum of Natural History is displaying the asteroid but it makes perfect sense for the museum focused on planet earth to present this sample to the american people. The sample represents not only an amazing feat of technological achievement by nasa and all of its partners, it also offers a window into our past. Scientists, some of whom you will hear from you in a moment, will study these samples and with them answer fundamental questions about our own planet, questions like how did water come to this planet . How did the continence form . How did life itself evolve here . It takes samples back here on e