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The Minimum Data Set (MDS) is a uniform instrument used in every Medicare/Medicaid certified nursing home in the United States to assess resident condition. It was developed in response to the Landmark Institute of Medicine (IOM) Report on Nursing Home Quality in 1987 where the MDS was seen as a critical component in efforts to improve the quality of care in nursing homes. The Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1987 (OBRA 1987) also set forth new provisions for Medicare and Medicaid related to new standards for care in the nursing home setting. From its inception, the MDS was intended to serve several purposes: (1) Collect data to inform care plans (2) To generate quality indicators to evaluate nursing homes and guide improvement interventions (3) To serve as a data source for nursing home payment systems. Pursuant to sections 4204(b) and 4214(d) of OBRA 1987, the current requirements related to the submission and retention of resident assessment data are not subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), but it has been determined that requirements for SNF staff performing, encoding and patient assessment data necessary administer the payment rate methodology described in 413.337, are subject to the PRA. The SNF QRP was established in CMS-1622-F (August 4, 2015; 80 FR 46390) and began collecting data from SNFs in fiscal year (FY) 2016 using the MDS. As described in section 1899B (b)(1)(B) of the Social Security Act (the Act), SNFs are required to submit standardized patient assessment data with respect to the following categories: • Functional Status • Cognitive Function • Special Services, Treatments, and Interventions • Medical Conditions and Comorbidities • Impairments • Other categories deemed necessary and appropriate by the Secretary Both the Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM) in the SNF PPS and the SNF QRP collect data through the MDS 3.0. The PDPM was described and adopted for SNFs and Swing Beds in CMS-1696-F (August 8, 2018; 83 FR 39162). This package is a request for a revision to the current Minimum Data Set (MDS) assessment instrument for the Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF). This package represents a request from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to implement the MDS 3.0 v1.18.11 beginning October 1, 2023 to October 1, 2026 in order to meet the requirements of policies finalized in the Federal Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Prospective Payment System (PPS) final rule (CMS-1718-F, RIN 0938-AT75). A PRA package was submitted at the time of the finalized policies and approved on 11/22/2019, but the compliance date for the finalized policies (10/01/2020) was delayed due to the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE). Please note, however, the burden was never retracted, and the implementation of the instrument was simply delayed. While there has been no change in assessment-level burden since the approval of the MDS 3.0 v1.17.2, there has been a change in total burden since 2019 when the package was originally approved due to a decrease in the number of MDS assessments completed and a change in the hourly rate for clinicians completing the assessment.

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Administration of In-center Hemodialysis CAHPS(ICH CAHPS) survey by more than 5,700 Medicare-certified ESRD facilities is required as part of the value-based purchasing program for payments under the Medicare program, as described in the 2016 proposed and final ESRD Prospective System Payment Update Rules published in the Federal Register on July 1, 2015, and November 6, 2015, respectively. Value-based purchasing promotes CMS’ goals: better healthcare for individuals; better care for populations and communities; and, lower costs through improvement. Beginning in CY2014, ICH facilities are required to contract with a CMS-approved survey vendor to implement the survey; the CMS-approved vendor shall follow a set of standardized survey administration procedures developed for the national implementation. Survey results from the national implementation will be publicly reported on the DFC website on www.medicare.gov.

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This form facilitates online registration for the Boots to Business course for eligible service members and their spouses. The collected data will be used to report course statistics, manage course operations more efficiently, tailor individual classes based on the experience and interests of the participants, and ultimately contact Boots to Business alumni.

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To collect information that will allow the Department to evaluate and then make informed decisions on ways to improve the strategies currently in use to recruit, train, and retain qualified staff within the Child Development Program.

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“The Real Cost” Monthly Implementation Assessment (MIA) is a repeated cross-sectional survey that will be conducted using web-based surveys that are self-administered on personal computers or web enabled mobile devices to collect rapid data on “The Real Cost” campaign content. The purpose of the MIA study is to provide a rapid and flexible method for collecting data on campaign exposure, awareness, attention, and processing, as well as receptivity to both in-market stimuli and stimuli in development, to understand the extent to which “The Real Cost” is being received by the intended audience and successfully delivered to the intended audience.

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The National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) collects information for surveillance to monitor the occurrence of violent deaths in the U.S. at the national, state, and local levels. Data is used to understand magnitude, trends, and characteristics of violent death and what factors protect people or put them at risk for experiencing violence. This revision includes 1) implementing updates to the web-based system to improve performance, functionality, and accessibility, 2) adding new data elements to the system, and 3) making minimal revisions to the NVDRS Coding Manual. There are no changes to the burden.

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As part of the DHHS Transparency Initiative on Quality Reporting, CMS plans to implement a process to measure and publicly report patients' experiences with home health care they receive from Medicare-certified home health agencies through the data collection effort described in this request: the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Home Health Care Survey. The Home Health Care CAHPS Survey, which was developed and tested by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and is part of the family of CAHPS surveys, is a standardized survey for home health patients to assess their home health care providers and the quality of the home health care they receive. Prior to the Home Health Care CAHPS survey, there was no national standard for collecting data about home health care patients' experience with their home health care. This is a revision to the original PRA package which covered the voluntary implementation of the survey among Medicare-certified agencies and a randomized mode experiment to test the impact of different modes of data collection on survey responses. This is a revised PRA package because it now includes the burden to the home health agencies (HHAs) to contract with an approved HHCAHPS survey vendor to administer the HHCAHPS survey on their behalf.

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The purpose of OHHABS is 1) to provide a database for routine data collection at the state/territorial level to identify and characterize HAB events, HAB-associated illnesses, and HAB exposures in the United States and 2) to better inform and improve our understanding of HAB-associated illnesses and exposures through routine surveillance to inform public health policy and illness prevention efforts. OHHABS (electronic, year-round collection) includes questions about HAB events and HAB-associated-illness for human and animal cases. OHHABS, a web-based reporting system, is nationally available for state and territorial health departments to voluntarily report information about HAB-associated human and animal cases and HAB events. This revision contains updates to OHHABS that better align with HAB information as we know it today. Changes include modifying questions, streamlining data collection methods, and the separation of the data collection instrument.

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The goal of this package is to define a core set of data elements to be used for hypothesis generation as part of investigations of clusters or outbreaks of foodborne, waterborne, and other enteric diseases. These instruments will be used by federal, state, and local public health officials responsible for conducting interviews with reported cases in their jurisdiction in order to systematically assess core exposure elements and risk factors among cases.

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The National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) is the nation’s public health surveillance system used to monitor the occurrence and spread of nationally notifiable conditions. Respondents are 60 jurisdictions: public health departments in every U.S. state, New York City, Washington DC, 5 U.S. territories (American Samoa, the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands), and 3 freely associated states (the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau). NNDSS provides the official source of statistics in the United States for nationally notifiable conditions and CDC is the sole repository for these national, population-based data. Recently the NNDSS platform was modernized and expanded as a low-cost, common portal for collecting information on other conditions. Among the thousands of diseases that affect the health of the population, CDC and the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) have prioritized the approximately 120 Nationally Notifiable Conditions as those most important for public health monitoring and response. Changes to NNDSS in this Revision include: 1) Addition of case notification data for non-pestis yersiniosis, injuries related to firearms, and Chagas disease; and 2) Processing a total of 61 new data elements for 2 conditions: Toxoplasmosis and congenital toxoplasmosis The overall burden hours decreased since the last Revision because there were less one-time burdens associated with disease-specific data elements in this Revision

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The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Office of Research and Analysis (ORA) requests information collection for an independent mixed-methods evaluation of the Creative Forces®: NEA Military Healing Arts Network (Creative Forces) Community Engagement Grant Program. This is a new request for a revision of a current collection, requesting approval for data collection for two grantee cohorts (FY2026 and FY 2027) between July 2025 and July 2027. Creative Forces is an initiative of the NEA in partnership with the U.S. Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs that seeks to improve the health, well-being, and quality of life for military and veteran populations exposed to trauma, and for their families and caregivers through clinical and non-clinical programs (https://www.arts.gov/initiatives/creative-forces). Creative Forces is funded through Congressional appropriation. The Congressional Committee on Appropriation “supports the NEA’s continued efforts to expand upon this successful program to embed Creative Arts Therapies at the core of integrative care efforts in clinical settings, advance collaboration among clinical and community arts providers to support wellness and reintegration efforts for affected families, and advance research to improve our understanding of impacts of these interventions in both clinical and community settings.” The Creative Forces Community Engagement (CFCE) grant program was announced in 2020 and launched in 2022, in partnership with the Mid-America Arts Alliance (M-AAA), to support community-based arts programs and activities and expand the reach of Creative Forces nationwide. Since then, more than 100 CFCE grants, ranging from $10,000 to $50,000 in matched funding, have been awarded to eligible organizations nationwide. CFCE grants are intended to support non-clinical arts engagement programs taking place in healthcare, community, or virtual settings. These grants support community programs in a range of arts activities, including visual, written, and performing arts offered through single events, drop-in programs, and ongoing engagement led by artists in residence, teaching artists, or creative arts therapists. The purpose of the evaluation of CFCE is to assess program implementation, document the effect of the program on participants and grantees, and identify best and promising practices for CFCE and other community arts engagement programs for military-connected populations. Evaluation results will provide actionable evidence to support current and future iterations of the grant program and CFCE grantees.

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The WISEWOMAN program focuses on reducing risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD) among at-risk participants. Addressing risk factors such as high blood pressure, elevated blood cholesterol, obesity, sedentary lifestyle, diabetes, and smoking, reduces a woman’s risk of CVD-related illness and death. CVD, is a primary contributor to mortality, morbidity, and decreased quality of life, especially among older participants. Health United States (2019) reported that CVD was the leading cause of death for women in the United States. Participants in lower income brackets, or without health insurance have an increased risk of CVD morbidity and mortality, because they have limited access to health services such as screenings, medications, healthy behavior support services to manage their risk factors. State, and tribal organizations awarded with WISEWOMAN grants are expected to report information pertaining to the aforementioned factors for the purposes of program evaluation. The WISEWOMAN program shares 8 data elements with the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP) so the burden of collecting additional information by awardees (see Attachment 3) is minimized. Overall, there are no changes to the number of awardees (respondents), the information collection requirements, the estimated burden per response, or the total estimated annualized burden hours. This Revision request for WISEWOMAN Program replaces the current race MDE with OMB 2024 Statistical Policy Directive-15 Standard (Figure 2). Two additional questions from the PRAPARE Screening Tool will be added for program fidelity and data quality.

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CMS has fielded the MA (Consumer Assessment of Health Care Providers and Systems) CAHPS Survey annually since 1998, the Medicare FFS CAHPS Survey annually since 2000, and the MA DP and Stand Alone PDP CAHPS survey annually since 2006. The Medicare CAHPS is a national survey of health and prescription drug plans conducted at the contract level for MA, MA PD and Stand Alone PDP plans and at the state level for Medicare fee-for-service. Medicare CAHPS provides data to permit preparation of plan performance measures to assist Medicare beneficiaries in their selection of a health and/or prescription drug plan and help policymakers and others assist the Medicare program and Medicare plans design and monitor patient-centered quality improvement initiatives. The 2009 Call letter for MA and MA PD plans requires these plans to contract with private vendors from a list selected by CMS to conduct the 2011 Medicare CAHPS survey for their plan at the contract level and provide the collected data to CMS for analyses and preparation of CAHPS measures for use in consumer and plan reports and for quality improvement purposes for MA, MA PD, and Stand Alone PDP plans. CMS will continue to collect the Medicare FFS CAHPS data from surveys at the state and some sub-state levels. This revision to a currently approved collection is to add questions focusing on care coordination. The Medicare CAHPS survey has taken the OMB No. 0935-0732.

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The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 provided FNS with $390 million and waiver authority for WIC modernization. The WIC modernization evaluation will help FNS understand the implementation and impacts of these efforts to inform ongoing and future modernization efforts. Respondents include WIC State and local agencies, WIC/FMNP vendor/market staff, and participants.

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The National Ocean Service (NOS) proposes a revision to an approved information collection to collect data on the opinions, values, attitudes, and behaviors of visitors and residents local to National Estuarine Research Reserves (NERRs). The revisions to the collection were informed by the pre-tests and also include updates to ensure compliance with current Administration directives. No substantive changes have been made. Up-to-date socio-economic data is needed to support the individual NERR sites’ conservation and management goals. The initial surveys will be conducted for the Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Virginia (CBNERR-VA), Weeks Bay NERR (WBNERR), and Grand Bay NERR (GNDNERR), and the survey will be repeated regularly in other NERRs based on information needs and budget. This information will be used by NOAA and others to: ● understand who visits the NERRs, ● identify impacts of management decisions, ● inform management decisions, and ● extend education and outreach efforts. NOAA has a vested interest in this research as it supports comprehensive ocean and coastal planning and management. The data collected and resulting products are beneficial for NOAA, resource managers, and policy-makers.

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The information collected in this program of developing and testing questionnaires and advertising that will be used by the Census Bureau to evaluate and improve the quality of the data in the surveys and censuses that are ultimately conducted. Because the questionnaires being tested under this clearance are still in the process of development, the data that result from these collections are not considered official statistics of the Census Bureau or other Federal agencies. Data will be included in research reports prepared for sponsors inside and outside of the Census Bureau. The results may also be prepared for presentations related to survey methodology at professional meetings or publications in professional journals.

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This request is for reinstatement with changes of a previously approved information collection (OMB Control Number 0648-0639). Relative to the previously approved information collection, this information collection focuses on collecting data from a subset of the Alaska saltwater angler population targeted in previous collections, specifically all Alaska saltwater anglers fishing by charter boat rather than all Alaska saltwater anglers. The focus on charter anglers excludes anglers who fish from a private boat or from shore. The focus on the charter angler subpopulation is due to that population being of primary concern for fishery managers. Charter anglers fishing for federally-regulated Pacific halibut are subject to different regulations and management actions compared with other Alaska saltwater anglers. Harvest regulations (e.g., daily bag limits) for Pacific halibut off Alaska have been unchanged for decades and are unlikely to change in the foreseeable future. Charter fishing for halibut in Alaska, on the other hand, has experienced a number of important changes that affect both charter anglers and the charter fishing businesses providing charter fishing services. The proposed data collection is needed to improve estimates of fishing trip values and fishing behavior potentially affected by changes in federal recreational fisheries off Alaska, including recent declines in populations of Pacific halibut and subsequent measures to manage harvest in the Alaska recreational charter fishing sector. Numerous questions in the survey have been updated to better reflect, and understand the effects of, recent changes in Alaska marine recreational fisheries.

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The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration is submitting this non-substantive change request in order to bring the demographic questions in line with the OPM issued memorandum titled, "Initial Guidance Regarding President Trump’s Executive Order Defending Women. The only changes were to the questions regarding an individual’s sex to remove to response options and to update the race/ethnicity question for compliance with SPD-15. In considering the expanded format for collecting race and ethnicity information, which includes minimum categories, multiple detailed checkboxes, and write-in response areas with example group categories, we determined that such specificity is not required for our purposes. The primary goal of this information collection is to obtain feedback to learn more about how people hear about and respond to flooding in their community. By simplifying the Race and Ethnicity Question with Minimum Categories (that is format 3, Race and Ethnicity Question with Minimum Categories Only) we can streamline the data collection process and focus on obtaining valuable insights from individuals who have experienced a severe water hazard. This approach allows us to prioritize the feedback and opinions that will directly contribute to improving public outreach and communication.

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This is to request approval for the continued use of an electronic Individual Development Plan (eIDP), with an exit survey. Completing an eIDP is a crucial step in a trainees’ professional development and is a standard in graduate and postdoctoral education. An IDP is an effective tool for trainees to think about their career goals and skills needed to achieve them during their time at the NEI. Trainees work together with their research mentor to organize and describe their research projects, consider career paths, and set training goals and expectations. The information provided by the trainee on their proposed project, for example, helps their mentor judge the merits and feasibility of said project, helping identify problems early on and prevent possible delays. As research training at the NIH is time-limited (for example, postdoctoral fellows can only stay five years without special permission) and the types of research emphasized at the NIH and NEI are high-risk/high-reward projects that typically span much of the trainee’s tenure, the use of the project section in the eIDP assists mentors and mentees in aligning their goals and has ensured that projects are well thought out and planned to avoid delays. Additionally, in case of a dispute on the direction of a project, the mentor and mentee can refer back to what’s proposed within the eIDP.

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This Information Collection Request is for an overarching generic clearance to collect data from programs delivered by Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) grant recipients on behalf of the SRAE National Evaluation. The information collected under this generic clearance is intended to identify innovative implementation strategies and program components used by SRAE grant recipients. There is not extensive evidence on SRAE programming to inform SRAE grant recipients’ implementation and program improvement efforts. To add to this limited body of evidence and support ACF’s administration of the SRAE grant program, the SRAE National Evaluation includes data collection to identify strategies and components that have the potential to improve the delivery and/or quality of SRAE programming. This work is rapid and iterative to allow any learnings to be disseminated to SRAE grant recipients during their grant award periods. As the study team identifies strategies ready for evaluation, rapid, responsive work will be undertaken to allow any learnings to be disseminated back to SRAE grant recipients within their grant award periods. For these reasons, ACF’s Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation is seeking approval for an overarching generic clearance. We have identified one innovative strategy that we would like to learn more about immediately upon approval of this overarching generic clearance, before planning a more in-depth study that would be reflected in a future submission to OMB. This initial GenIC request is included within the request for the new umbrella generic; future GenICs will be submitted individually.