Broadcasteronline.c om September 20, 2016 www.broadcasteronline.com Defending The United States HHS Awards $199,399 For Health Centers’ IT Enhancements In South Dakota Broadcaster Press 3 Broadcasteronline.c om By Sen. Mike Rounds When I was working as governor of South Dakota, one of the most difficult parts of my job was sending off our men and women in uniform as they deployed overseas. I promised them I would do everything I could to make sure they came home safe and sound, and to take care of their families while they were gone. Working in the Senate now, the defense of our country and support for our troops are still two of my top priorities. As I’ve said many times, the most important responsibility of the federal government is to provide for our national defense. Unless that responsibility is fulfilled, the freedoms we enjoy every day are in jeopardy. In the Senate, we need to pass a defense appropriations bill each year to provide the necessary resources for our troops to conduct operations around the globe. Yet, Senate Democrats have blocked the defense appropriations bill from even being debated six times in this Congress. They have chosen this path of obstruction apparently to use the defense appropriations bill as a bargaining chip for some other spending they may identify in the future. Supporting our troops should not be a partisan issue. It should be an issue where we can find consensus, and I hope that it can be the first step toward moving the Senate back to what we call “regular order” with regard to the budget process. This means passing not only the defense appropriations bill but all of the appropriations bills one-by-one, so that we have the opportunity to debate and consider the merits of each bill individually. Regular order is an important way to keep our spending priorities in check. Another issue that impacts our national security is our soaring national debt. Three-fourths of our budget—mandatory federal spending and the interest on the debt—is on autopilot, and Congress has little ability to debate the merits of that part of the budget through the appropriations process. This leaves one-quarter of the annual budget for everything else - from education and infrastructure to national defense. The result is that budget caps and other efforts to rein in costs are narrowly focused on the one-quarter of the budget which Congress controls. Unfortunately that includes defense - the primary responsibility of the federal government. By cutting the amount we spend on defense, we are putting our nation’s security at risk. Sequestration has shrunk the size of our Army from 566,000 active-duty soldiers in 2011 to an estimated 450,000 at the end of 2017. This is despite the fact that threats against the United States continue to increase. We made a promise to our troops that we would do everything we can to keep them safe. We should be prepared to make good on that promise. There is a very human price to underfunding our nation’s armed forces. It is our men and women in uniform who will hurt the most if Congress does not give them the tools they need to perform their jobs. 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On Used Combines and Heads EXCELLENT SELECTION! Lunch is available with your choice of pie or cheesecake for dessert! Schedule of Events Today, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced $199,399 in funding for 3 health centers 1 – 3 PM – Hilltop Ponies in South Dakota for health information technology enhance- 11 AM – Opening Ceremony Kids Pony Rides ments. In total, today’s announcement includes $87 million in 11 AM – 4 PM – Tractor Display, 1 – 4 PM – Children’s Games funding for 1,310 health centers in every U.S. state, the District Barrel Train Rides, Apple Press, 2 – 3 PM – Player Piano Music of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the Pacific Ba- Ice Cream & Butter Making, Carving, Candle & Rope Making, sin. 3 PM – Log Sawing, Skillet “Health centers across the country are instrumental in pro- Corn Shelling, Grading & Grinding, and Cow Chip Toss viding high-quality, comprehensive primary health care to Weaving, Spinning & Basket Weaving, 4 PM – Speaker Jim Stone millions of people,” said Secretary Burwell. “This investment Antique & Quilt Display Presents, Clay County, will help unlock health care data and put it to work, improving 1 - 2 PM – Accordion Music Historic, Danish Brick Barn health outcomes and building a better health care system for the American people.” **Find us by driving on Nebraska Highway 12, Turn north at The funding will support health information technology en570th Ave. The St. James Marketplace, St. James, Nebraska hancements to accelerate health centers’ transition to valueMake the St. James Heritage Fest a Family Tradition! based models of care, improve efforts to share and use information to support better decisions, and increase engagement in delivery system transformation. To support these goals, all purchases or upgrades of electronic health record systems made with the funding must use technology that is certified by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. This is the first significant investment since 2009 directly awarded to health centers to support the purchase of health information technology. “These awards will allow health centers to deliver higher quality of care to patients and spend health care dollars in a smarter way,” said Jim Macrae, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Acting Administrator. CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS Nearly 1,400 health centers operating over 9,800 sites provide care to more than 24 million people across this nation, in every U.S. state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the Pacific Basin. Today, health centers employ nearly 190,000 people. This funding comes from the Affordable Care Act’s Community Health Center (CHC) Fund, which was extended with bipartisan support in the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) of 2015. The increased use of health information technology is part of the administration’s efforts to build a health care system that delivers better care, smarter spending and healthier people. For a list of these fiscal year 2016 Delivery System Health Information Investment Awards recipients, visit: http://bphc.hrsa.gov/programopportunities/fundingopportunities/dshii/fy2016awards/index.html To learn more about HRSA’s ® Health Center Program, visit: http://bphc.hrsa.gov/about/ Raise your expectations. index.html To find a health center in your area, visit: http://finda101 W Main St | 605.624.4461 | cortrustbank.com healthcenter.hrsa.gov/ CALL US! FOR YOUR HARVEST PARTS AND SERVICE NEEDS GRAIN AUGERS NEW GRAIN AUGERS IN STOCK! SET UP – READY TO GO! 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