A couple of neighbors that reached out to us but we didnt do it ourselves. Are you planning on could go that. Yes. As part of our abc permits were doing that. Its part of the permits for the entertainment not only with other artists organizations but the neighbors that are potentially going to be impacted by your entertainment so thats part of your requirement. We met with the residence that reached out to us and been proements ourselves out to the public as much as possible weve been there fundraising commissioner caminong. Hi i think it is wonderful that you guys are going to have this space i noticed in the neighbor contact you reached to but the Merchant Association and back on commissioner perezs question about the process with reaching out to the neighbors just seeing over 20 signatures from people saying theyre not been contracted theres needs to be more of a push. Yeah. We terms of residential definitely we are a staff of 5 people weve think trying to raise money to open and li
The commission has authority to do so many and each board member has the authority to do one. These are yes, so how many all together there are 11 from the board of supervisors; right . Correct. And more besides this 11. I believe that we can have up to 22 or 24 is the total we can have. Its [inaudible] but we can have under that and we have under that at this point. Yes. So i think commissioner ow you heard in the report and commissioner smith and last month there were vacancies so you can ask the secretary for the applications. We have formal applications and you can ask the secretary for the application if you want to recommend somebody, but we still have several openings and looking for recruitment. Thank you. I have a clear understanding now. The one that appoint by the supervisors didnt go through this processing. No. Thank you. [inaudible] no. We have a motion on the floor which requires a second to nominate approve the people that the nominating committee recommended. I second
Is availability. How do we insure stability for these Academic Medical Centers and patients they serve if we put gme funding at risk . We believe and hope that our proposal does not do that and meets the objectives of making sure we are training appropriate physicians for both primary care and specialties where we dont have as many as we should. At the same time, making sure we target it. There is 100 million for pediatric and a wider pool for competition. It is an issue we want to meet the same objectives in the same time and do it in a fiscally responsible way. Thank you. Mr. Guthrie, five minutes for questioning. Thank you, madam secretary, for coming. I look forward to the next years as vice chair. First directing your attention to the cost Share Reduction Program contained in the aca. Sections 1402 and 1412. Does any part of this budget that we are talking about today request any new authority including any transfer authority to pay insurers under the cost Share Reduction Program
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. Ive 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 ten. This is according to
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 25bed 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 disturbing challenge that