The Senate Appropriations Committee voted 18-12 yesterday to approve a bill allocating $74.66 billion in discretionary funding to federal health and human services programs for fiscal year 2011. Unchanged from the version approved by the subcommittee this week, the Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill includes $673 million for Maternal-Child Health block grants; $426 million for hospital preparedness grants; $317.5 million for children's hospitals graduate medical education; $292.3 million for nursing workforce development programs; $141.4 million for the National Health Service Corps; and $5.1 million for rural physician training grants. Among other provisions, it includes $57.3 for Rural Health Care Services Outreach grants; $41.2 million for Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility grants; and $40 million for two medical home demonstrations.