Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) news and information

The battle continues between drugmakers and healthcare providers over the breadth of the federal 340B drug discount program, which assists providers serving indigent and uninsured patients.
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The government shutdown has led to furloughs of about half of the staff at the Food and Drug Administration and the Health Resources and Services Administration and may lead to delays in the agencies' operations.
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A dozen providers in a low-income part of the country will receive $5.4 million in federal funding to address a number of chronic conditions that affect residents there at a more frequent rate compared with the rest of the country.
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The Health Resources and Services Administration had no takers on its first call for comments on its rural health IT support program, so it reiterated that call, inquiring whether it is asking the right questions of program participants.
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Deano Thornton, CEO of Winn Community Health Center, a federally qualified healthcare center in the small city of Winnfield, La., knew the clinic would need the most up-to-date tools for reaching out to his underserved community and coordinating with the other community health clinics across the...
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Some small, rural healthcare organizations have become health information technology front-runners and their leaders techno mavens, despite the digital divide that separates the larger, urban health IT have-nows from the smaller, rural IT have-not-yets.
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The White House, via first lady Michelle Obama, today unveiled a program to aid combat medics and other military personnel earn nursing licenses after they leave the armed services.
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There's a whole electronic library of useful healthcare information for new parents, and there's a new programming interface developers can use to access federal databases.
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After dozens of lawmakers took up the fight, a federal agency on Friday delayed a policy change that hospitals said could unfairly limit their access to deeply discounted drugs in the federal 340B program.
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After meeting with congressional leaders on Friday, President Barack Obama said the nation will get through the period of steep and automatic budget cuts known as sequestration, but it will be painful process.
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