A Public Health Service agency that administers (among others) education and training programs for health care providers and community service workers who care for AIDS patients. HRSA also administers programs to demonstrate how communities can organize their health care resources to develop an integrated, comprehensive system of care for those with AIDS and HIV infection. See also Public Health Service.
An agency in the Department of Health and Human Services that puts primary health-care providers and services in the places they are needed most. HRSA administers the Ryan White CARE Act Titles I, II, III(b), IV, SPNS, and AETCs (see Ryan White CARE Act) to provide treatment and services for those affected by HIV/AIDS. HRSA administers programs to demonstrate how communities can organize their health-care resources to develop an integrated, comprehensive, culturally competent system to care for those with AIDS and HIV infection. HRSA also administers education and training programs for health-care providers and community service workers who care for persons living with HIV/AIDS.
HRSA is an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services. Its mission is to improve and expand access to quality health care for all. HRSA assures the availability of quality health care to low income, uninsured, isolated, vulnerable and special needs populations and meets their unique health care needs. HRSA is organized into several Offices and five Bureaus (the Healthcare Systems Bureau, the Bureau of Primary Health Care, the Bureau of Health Professions, the HIV/AIDS Bureau, and the Maternal and Child Health Bureau).
HRSA, an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, is charged with overseeing the Office of Special Programs, which in turn oversees the Division of Transplantation. HRSA helps provide health resources for medically under-served populations. HRSA supports a nationwide network of 643 community and migrant health centers, and 144 primary care programs for the homeless and residents of public housing, serving 8.1 million Americans each year. HRSA also works to build the health care workforce and maintains the National Health Service Corps, oversees the nation's organ transplantation system, works to decrease infant mortality and improve child health and provides services to people with AIDS through the Ryan White CARE Act programs.
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is a division of the United States Department of Health and Human Services whose goal is to improve access to health care for those without insurance.http://www.hrsa.gov/about/default.htm According to the HRSA, the agency "envisions optimal health for all, supported by a health care system that assures access to comprehensive, culturally competent, quality care."http://www.hrsa.gov/about/default.htm Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the HRSA has 10 regional offices and employs approximately 1,600 people. Its budget for FY 2006.