Nashville Area Indian Health Service 2011 Annual Report

PRIORITY FOUR: MAKE ALL OUR WORK ACCOUNTABLE, TRANSPARENT, FAIR AND INCLUSIVE.
ARRA Projects
Thirty-three of 42 American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) sanitation,
medical equipment and maintenance projects are fully complete at this time with
award recipients submitting final reports online at www.federalreporting.gov. As
projects are completed, summary sheets are assembled documenting the need
that the project addressed, the completed facility and the population served.
The Nashville Area continues to provide technical assistance to Area Tribal
recipients to assure 100% compliance with recipient reporting requirements.
Total disbursements (outlays) of all Area ARRA funds currently stand at 86%,
which exceeds the Agency outlay target of 85%.
GPRA Measures
The Area had a total of four health sites that met 21 out of 21 Government
Performance and Results Act (GPRA) measures, including 100% of the
Nashville Area operated health care facilities. To achieve these successes,
monthly updates were provided, which included distribution of GPRA report
cards, detailed listings of numerators/denominators, recommendations and
guidance on ways to improve GPRA performance, and the distribution of
general GPRA information. For comparison, in GPRA year 2010, only five
programs nationally met all 21 GPRA measures with three of those in the
Nashville Area. In GPRA year 2011, four of nine sites in the nation that met
all the GPRA clinical indicators were in the Nashville Area.
Statistician Kristina Rogers at the USET Annual Meeting & Expo in Choctaw, Mississippi.
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