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The Senate Appropriations Committee yesterday approved a bill specifying discretionary funding for federal health and human services programs for fiscal year 2009. The Labor-HHS spending bill is expected to go to the Senate floor sometime after the Independence Day recess. Among other allocations, the bill would provide $664.268 million for maternal child health care block grants; $361.6 million for hospital preparedness grants; $310 million for Children’s Hospitals Graduate Medical Education; $167.652 million for nursing workforce development, $51.4 million for rural health outreach grants; $39.2 million for rural FLEX grants, including $15 million for small rural hospital improvement; $9.0 million for rural health research; and $1.46 million for rural access to emergency devices.

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