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Fiscal Year 2008 Justification of Estimates for Appropriations Committees
 

HRSA FY 2008 Budget Estimate

  FTE Amount
Health Resources and Services
1,481
$5,795,805,000
Health Education Assistance Loans
12
2,906,000
Vaccine Injury Compensation Program
17
3,528,000

Message from the Administrator

I am pleased to present the FY 2008 Congressional Justification for the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). Consistent with the Secretary’s policy guidance, this budget request continues support for the Administration’s priority initiatives and reflects the goals and objectives in the Department’s Strategic Plan. The HRSA budget supports the final year of the President’s Health Center Initiative as well as the President’s goal of placing a Health Center site in every high poverty county that lacks a site and can support one.

The FY 2008 budget request supports successful programs and reduces or eliminates programs that have failed to demonstrate success or are similar to other funded activities. The PART process continues to be a critical tool for evaluating program effectiveness and developing budget and legislative strategies.

The justification includes the FY 2008 Annual Performance Plan and the FY 2006 Annual Performance Report, as required by the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA), along with a more direct link of the budget discussion with program performance.

The Agency has seven strategic goals that support HRSA’s mission. They are as follows:

  • Improve Access to Health Care
  • Improve Health Outcomes
  • Improve the Quality of Health Care
  • Eliminate Health Disparities
  • Improve the Public Health and Health Care Systems
  • Enhance the Ability of the Health Care System to Respond to Public Health
    Emergencies
    Achieve Excellence in Management

HRSA’s implementation of performance management creates a framework to link Agency-wide goals with program priorities and target resources to increase access to basic health care for medically underserved Americans. It provides a vision of what we and our partners need to accomplish and gives us a consistent and effective way to measure achievement and strive for continued improvement.

Our FY 2008 budget request allows us to sustain important ongoing initiatives within today’s challenging budgetary environment.

 

Elizabeth M. Duke
Administrator