2013-05-22T20:00:00Z opencongress.org tag:opencongress.org,2007:/issue_feed/4551 tag:opencongress.org,2013-05-22:/action/360249 2013-05-22T20:00:00Z A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to designate certain medical facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs as health professional shortage areas, and for other purposes.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2013-05-22:/action/360263 2013-05-22T20:00:00Z A bill to reauthorize and improve the Older Americans Act of 1965, and for other purposes.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2013-05-15:/action/359090 2013-05-15T20:00:00Z To establish a demonstration grant program to recruit, train, deploy, and professionally support psychiatric physicians in Indian health programs.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2013-05-14:/action/358893 2013-05-14T20:00:00Z To provide for the assignment of Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners-Adult/Adolescent to brigades and equivalent units of the Armed Forces.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2013-05-08:/action/358422 2013-05-08T20:00:00Z To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish direct care registered nurse-to-patient staffing ratio requirements in hospitals, and for other purposes.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2013-05-05:/action/357681 2013-05-05T20:00:00Z To amend the Public Health Service Act to extend through fiscal year 2018 the authorization for certain health care workforce loan repayment programs.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2013-04-24:/action/357023 2013-04-24T20:00:00Z A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Professionals Educational Assistance Program, and for other purposes.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2013-04-24:/action/356824 2013-04-24T20:00:00Z A bill to improve health care furnished by the Department of Veterans Affairs by increasing access to complementary and alternative medicine and other approaches to wellness and preventive care, and for other purposes.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2013-04-22:/action/356261 2013-04-22T20:00:00Z To create a patient-centered quality of care initiative for seriously ill patients through the establishment of a stakeholder strategic summit, quality of life education and awareness initiative, health care workforce training, an advisory committee, and palliative care focused research, and for other purposes.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2013-04-15:/action/355538 2013-04-15T20:00:00Z A bill to provide for comprehensive immigration reform and for other purposes.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2013-04-15:/action/355661 2013-04-15T20:00:00Z A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to establish direct care registered nurse-to-patient staffing ratio requirements in hospitals, and for other purposes.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2013-04-14:/action/355445 2013-04-14T20:00:00Z A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide health care practitioners in rural areas with training in preventive health care, including both physical and mental care, and for other purposes.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2013-04-14:/action/355479 2013-04-14T20:00:00Z To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide health care practitioners in rural areas with training in preventive health care, including both physical and mental care, and for other purposes.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2013-04-10:/action/355159 2013-04-10T20:00:00Z A bill to provide for the expansion of Federal efforts concerning the prevention, education, treatment, and research activities related to Lyme and other tick-borne diseases, including the establishment of a Tick-Borne Diseases Advisory Committee.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2013-03-20:/action/353778 2013-03-20T20:00:00Z Recognizing the importance of frontline health workers toward accelerating progress on global health and saving the lives of women and children, and for other purposes.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2013-03-20:/action/354003 2013-03-20T20:00:00Z To increase purchasing power, strengthen economic recovery, and restore fairness in financing higher education in the United States through student loan forgiveness, caps on interest rates on Federal student loans, and refinancing opportunities for private borrowers, and for other purposes.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2013-03-20:/action/353843 2013-03-20T20:00:00Z A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to increase the number of permanent faculty in palliative care at accredited allopathic and osteopathic medical schools, nursing schools, and other programs, to promote education in palliative care and hospice, and to support the development of faculty careers in academic palliative medicine.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2013-03-20:/action/353832 2013-03-20T20:00:00Z To amend the Public Health Service Act to increase the number of permanent faculty in palliative care at accredited allopathic and osteopathic medical schools, nursing schools, and other programs, to promote education in palliative care and hospice, and to support the development of faculty careers in academic palliative medicine.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2013-03-18:/action/353438 2013-03-18T20:00:00Z To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the participation of physical therapists in the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program, and for other purposes.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2013-03-18:/action/353451 2013-03-18T20:00:00Z A bill to provide incentives to physicians to practice in rural and medically underserved communities and for other purposes.<br /><br />