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The groups say the AHRQ’s cessation of its grantmaking process violates statutory and regulatory requirements.
CMS head Seema Verma calls national efforts to improve patient safety that saved 8,000 lives and $2.9 billion a tremendous accomplishment.
The President's proposed budget makes deep cuts to health departments and public health initiatives while boosting budgets for the FDA and the NIH, as well as funding to combat the opioid crisis.
Community-based nursing homes that participated in this project lowered CAUTI rates by 54 percent.
Budget provides $3.5 billion for CMS administrative expenses, which is $219 million below current levels and $137 million below amount requested.
Project took AHRQ's Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program, and molded it around long-term care facilities.
Scott Gottlieb and Gopal Khanna round out the most recent government hires to head the agencies most important to health IT.
About 30 percent of NIH grant funds go towards expenses that are not research related, the HHS Secretary said Wednesday.
Trump's budget calls for a $5.8 billion cut to the NIH. The organization currently spends about $1.5 billion per year on research.
The budget also cuts more than $400 million earmarked for physician and nurse training programs, claiming that they lack evidence that those programs improve the workforce.
