Sec. 3. Improving access of homeless individuals to medical services
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Subpart I of Part D of title III of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 254b et seq. ) is amended by adding at the end the following new section: The Secretary may award grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements to eligible entities described in subsection
(b)to enable such entities to improve access of homeless individuals to mobile medical health care services. To be eligible for a grant, contract, or agreement under this section an entity shall— be a partnership consisting of— one or more hospitals; and one or more other local health care facilities, including clinics, health centers, primary care facilities, mental health centers, pharmacies, or other mobile medical assets (as such term is defined for purposes of section 319C–2), whether or not such a local health care facility is owned (either in whole or in part) by a partnering hospital described in subparagraph (A); and submit to the Secretary, an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary may require. A grant, contract, or agreement awarded under this section may be expended only for activities to increase access of homeless individuals to mobile medical services, including primary health services (as defined in section 330(b)(1)), substance abuse services (as defined in section 330(h)(5)), and mental health counseling. A hospital or health care facility shall not be eligible for a grant, contract, or agreement under this section with respect to more than one partnership described in subsection (b)(1). In awarding a grant, contract, or agreement under this section, the Secretary shall give priority to any application from a geographic area that has a comparatively high ratio of homeless individuals to non-homeless individuals. A grant, contract, or agreement awarded under this section shall be expended to supplement, and not supplant, the expenditures of the eligible entity involved and the value of in kind contributions for the delivery of services to homeless individuals. If any grantee under this section has provided services described in this section to a homeless individual under the grant, contract, or agreement awarded under this section, such grantee may, notwithstanding that the individual is no longer homeless as a result of becoming a resident in permanent housing, expend the amount so awarded to continue to provide such services to the individual for not more than 12 months. For purposes of this section: The term homeless individual has the meaning given such term in section 330(h)(5). The term mobile medical health care service means any health care related service provided in a moveable vehicle or a non-permanent clinic. .
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