Sec. 816. Graduate medical education improvements in rural and underserved communities
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Part P of title III of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 280g et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new section: Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (in this section referred to as the Secretary ), acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, shall establish a rural and underserved community graduate medical education grant program under which the Secretary shall award grants to specified hospitals (as defined in subsection (b)) that have not established an approved medical residency training program (as defined for purposes of section 1886(h) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395ww(h) )) in order to encourage such hospitals to establish such a program, or to establish an affiliation with a hospital that has established such a program in order to host residents under such program.
Grants awarded under subsection
(a)may be used by a specified hospital for any initial costs associated with establishing such a program or such an affiliation, including costs associated with faculty development, administration, infrastructure, supplies, and legal and consultant services. For purposes of subsection (a), the term specified hospital means a hospital or critical access hospital (as such terms are defined in section 1861 of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395x )) that— is— located in a rural area (as defined in section 1886(d)(2)(D) of such Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395ww(d)(2)(D) )); or treated as being located in a rural area pursuant to section 1886(d)(8)(E) of such Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395ww(d)(8)(E) ); and is located in a medically underserved area (as defined in section 330I(a) of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 254c–14(a) )). Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, shall establish a grant program under which the Secretary awards grants to critical access hospitals (as defined in section 1861 of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395x )) that do not have in effect an affiliation with a hospital with an approved medical residency training program to host residents of such program in order to assist such critical access hospitals in setting up such affiliations in order to host such residents. No hospital may receive an aggregate amount of grants under this section in excess of $250,000. Not later than 5 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall submit to the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate a report on graduate medical residency training programs of hospitals that received a grant under subsection
(a)or (d). Such report shall include the following: The number of hospitals that applied for a grant under this section. The number of hospitals that were awarded such a grant. The number of residency positions created by hospitals receiving such a grant. An estimate of the number of such positions such hospitals will create after the date of the submission of such report. A description of any challenges faced by hospitals in applying for such a grant or using funds awarded under such a grant. Not later than 10 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to Congress a report containing an analysis of— the number of residents who trained at a hospital or critical access hospital that received a grant under subsection
(a)or (d); and whether such residents continued to practice medicine in a rural area (as defined in section 1886(d)(2)(D) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395ww(d)(2)(D) )) or in a medically underserved area (as defined in section 330I(a) of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 254c–14(a) )) after completing such training. There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as are necessary for purposes of making grants under this section for each of fiscal years 2020 through 2029. .
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- 42 USC 254c–14(a)
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Sec. 816
Graduate medical education improvements in rural and underserved communities
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