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Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is highlighting National Nurses Week (May 6-12) and National Nurses Day.
“In the manner of Proverbs 17:22, our nurses’ cheerful hearts are part of their providing the community with needed professional medical care!
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata has cosponsored new bipartisan legislation, together with the Representatives of the four affected territories, to remove Medicaid funding caps, a point of fairness. The Medicaid Improvement for Insular Areas Act of 2025, was sponsored by Rep. Kimberlyn King-Hinds (CNMI), with original cosponsors Rep. Aumua Amata (American Samoa), Rep. James Moylan (Guam), and Rep. Stacey Plaskett (USVI).
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is welcoming a grant notice Friday from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for the American Samoa Community Cancer Coalition.
The grant, a new award of $143,693 for research on aging, is categorized as a small research grant project, and from HHS’s National Institute on Aging.
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is highlighting a federal funding notification from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in the amount of $1,339,555 for American Samoa Department of Health (ASDOH).
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is highlighting a federal funding notice of $114,676 from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), directed to maternal and child health services.
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is highlighting notice of a new grant of $500,000 in federal funding for local mental health and substance abuse services, specifically opioid efforts.
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is highlighting a grant notice of $228,000 for the American Samoa Department of Health from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is welcoming a federal funding notice of about $95,000 ($94,705) this week from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The CDC, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), provided notice of this new discretionary health services grant, a preventive health block grant, for the American Samoa Department of Health.
Washington, D.C. –Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata, Congressman Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan (CNMI), and Congressman James Moylan (Guam), are working together in a bipartisan effort to protect critical Medicare funding for dialysis facilities in the Pacific territories.
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata welcomed a federal funding notice of $295,000 last week from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for Preventing Maternal Mortality.