42 U.S.C. § 293l–1 — Teaching health centers development grants
submitted 82 years ago by Pub. L. 111-148 to r/title-42-THE-PUBLIC-HEALTH-AND-WELFARE · 491 words · no verdicts yet
The Secretary can give grants of up to $500,000, for up to 3 years, to teaching health centers. The money helps them start or grow primary care residency training programs. Applicants that already partner with an area health education center get preference.
(a) Program authorized: The Secretary* may give grants to teaching health centers to help them start new, or expand existing, accredited primary care residency programs.
(b) Amount and duration: Grants last up to 3 years, and no single grant can be more than $500,000.
(c) Use of funds: Grant money pays for:
(1) starting or growing a primary care residency program, including costs for
(A) building the curriculum,
(B) recruiting, training, and keeping residents and faculty,
(C) getting accredited by the ACGME, the American Dental Association, or the American Osteopathic Association, and
(D) paying faculty salaries while the program is getting started; and
(2) technical help from an eligible entity.
(d) Application: A teaching health center applies to the Secretary in the form, manner, and timeframe the Secretary sets.
(e) Preference for certain applications: The Secretary favors applicants that already have a written partnership agreement with an area health education center program*.
(f) Definitions: (1) "Eligible entity" means a group that can give technical help, including an area health education center* program. (2) "Primary care residency program" means an approved graduate medical residency in family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, combined internal medicine-pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, psychiatry, general dentistry, pediatric dentistry, or geriatrics. (3) "Teaching health center": (A) In general, this means a group that is a community-based outpatient care center and that runs a primary care residency program. (B) This includes: (i) a federally qualified health center*; (ii) a community mental health center; (iii) a rural health clinic*; (iv) a health center run by the Indian Health Service*, a tribe, a tribal organization, or an urban Indian organization; and (v) an entity that gets funds under subchapter VIII.
(g) Authorization of appropriations: Congress authorized $25,000,000 for 2010, $50,000,000 for 2011, $50,000,000 for 2012, and whatever amount is needed for each year after that. No more than $5,000,000 a year can go to technical assistance grants.
The Secretary* may award grants under this section to teaching health centers for the purpose of establishing new accredited or expanded primary care residency programs.
Grants awarded under this section shall be for a term of not more than 3 years and the maximum award may not be more than $500,000.
Amounts provided under a grant under this section shall be used to cover the costs of—
establishing or expanding a primary care residency training program described in subsection (a), including costs associated with—
curriculum development;
recruitment, training and retention of residents and faculty: 1
accreditation by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), the American Dental Association (ADA), or the American Osteopathic Association (AOA); and
faculty salaries during the development phase; and
technical assistance provided by an eligible entity.
A teaching health center seeking a grant under this section shall submit an application to the Secretary at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary may require.
In selecting recipients for grants under this section, the Secretary shall give preference to any such application that documents an existing affiliation agreement with an area health education center program* as defined in sections 294a and 295p of this title.
In this section:
The term “eligible entity” means an organization capable of providing technical assistance including an area health education center* program as defined in sections 294a and 295p of this title.
The term “primary care residency program” means an approved graduate medical residency training program (as defined in section 256h of this title) in family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, internal medicine-pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, psychiatry, general dentistry, pediatric dentistry, and geriatrics.
The term “teaching health center” means an entity that—
is a community based*, ambulatory patient care center; and
operates a primary care residency program.
Such term includes the following:
A Federally qualified health center* (as defined in section 1396d(l)(2)(B) of this title).
A community mental health center (as defined in section 1395x(ff)(3)(B) of this title).
A rural health clinic*, as defined in section 1395x(aa) of this title.
A health center operated by the Indian Health Service*, an Indian tribe or tribal organization, or an urban Indian organization (as defined in section 1603 of title 25).
An entity receiving funds under subchapter VIII.
There is authorized to be appropriated, $25,000,000 for fiscal year 2010, $50,000,000 for fiscal year 2011, $50,000,000 for fiscal year 2012, and such sums as may be necessary for each fiscal year thereafter to carry out this section. Not to exceed $5,000,000 annually may be used for technical assistance program grants.
Source credit: (July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title VII, § 749A, as added Pub. L. 111–148, title V, § 5508(a), Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 668.)
- 1944Enacted · Pub. L. 111-148 · 124 Stat. 668
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