Sec. 523. Grants to professional organizations to increase diversity in maternal, reproductive, and sexual health professionals
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The Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, shall carry out a grant program under which the Secretary may make to eligible health professional organizations— for fiscal year 2019, planning grants described in subsection (b); and for the subsequent 4-year period, implementation grants described in subsection (c). Planning grants described in this subsection are grants for the following purposes: To collect data and identify any workforce disparities, with respect to a health profession, at each of the following areas along the health professional continuum:
Pipeline availability with respect to students at the high school and college or university levels considering and working toward entrance in the profession. Entrance into the training program for the profession. Graduation from such training program. Entrance into practice. Retention in practice for more than a 5-year period. To develop one or more strategies to address the workforce disparities within the health profession, as identified under (and in response to the findings pursuant to) subparagraph (A).
To be eligible to receive a grant under this subsection, an eligible health professional organization shall submit to the Secretary of Health and Human Services an application in such form and manner and containing such information as specified by the Secretary. Each grant awarded under this subsection shall be for an amount not to exceed $300,000. Each recipient of a grant under this subsection shall submit to the Secretary of Health and Human Services a report containing— information on the extent and distribution of workforce disparities identified through the grant; and reasonable objectives and strategies developed to address such disparities within a 5-, 10-, and 25-year period.
Implementation grants described in this subsection are grants to implement one or more of the strategies developed pursuant to a planning grant awarded under subsection (b). To be eligible to receive a grant under this subsection, an eligible health professional organization shall submit to the Secretary of Health and Human Services an application in such form and manner as specified by the Secretary. Each such application shall contain information on the capability of the organization to carry out a strategy described in paragraph (1), involvement of partners or coalitions, plans for developing sustainability of the efforts after the culmination of the grant cycle, and any other information specified by the Secretary.
Each grant awarded under this subsection shall be for an amount not to exceed $500,000 each year during the 4-year period of the grant. For each of the first 3 years for which an eligible health professional organization is awarded a grant under this subsection, the organization shall submit to the Secretary of Health and Human Services a report on the activities carried out by such organization through the grant during such year and objectives for the subsequent year. For the fourth year for which an eligible health professional organization is awarded a grant under this subsection, the organization shall submit to the Secretary a report that includes an analysis of all the activities carried out by the organization through the grant and a detailed plan for continuation of out-reach efforts.
For purposes of this section, the term eligible health professional organization means a professional organization representing obstetrician-gynecologists, certified nurse midwives, certified midwives, family practice physicians, nurse practitioners whose scope of practice includes maternity or sexual and reproductive health care, physician assistants whose scope of practice includes obstetrical or sexual and reproductive health care, or certified professional midwives adolescent medicine specialists, and pediatricians who provide sexual and reproductive health care.
There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $2,000,000 for fiscal year 2019 and $3,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2020 through 2023.