Sec. 5409. Grants to professional organizations and minority-serving institutions to increase diversity in maternal, reproductive, and sexual health professionals
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The Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, shall carry out a grant program under which the Secretary may make to eligible organizations— for fiscal year 2023, planning grants described in paragraph (2); and for the subsequent 4-year period, implementation grants described in paragraph (3). Planning grants described in this paragraph are grants for the following purposes: To collect data and identify any workforce inequalities, 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, including barriers triggered by criminal records. Entrance into the training program for the profession. Graduation from such training program. Entrance into practice, including barriers triggered by criminal records. Retention in practice for more than a 5-year period. To develop one or more strategies to address the workforce inequalities within the health profession, as identified under (and in response to the findings pursuant to) clause (i).
To be eligible to receive a grant under this paragraph, an eligible health professional organization shall submit to the Secretary an application in such form and manner and containing such information as specified by the Secretary. Each grant awarded under this paragraph shall be for an amount not to exceed $300,000. Each recipient of a grant under this paragraph shall submit to the Secretary a report containing— information on the extent and distribution of workforce inequities identified through the grant; and reasonable objectives and strategies developed to address such inequalities within a 5-, 10-, and 25-year period.
Implementation grants described in this paragraph are grants to implement one or more of the strategies developed pursuant to a planning grant awarded under paragraph (2). To be eligible to receive a grant under this paragraph, an eligible health professional organization shall submit to the Secretary 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 subparagraph (A); the involvement of partners or coalitions; and the organization’s 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 paragraph shall be for an amount not to exceed $500,000 each year of the grant. The term of a grant under this subsection shall not exceed 4 years. For each of the first 3 years for which an eligible health professional organization is awarded a grant under this paragraph, 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 paragraph, 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 the continuation of the organization’s outreach efforts. For purposes of this subsection, 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.
The Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (referred to in this section as the Secretary ), shall carry out a grant program under which the Secretary may make to eligible minority-serving institutions— for fiscal years 2023 and 2024, planning grants described in paragraph (2); and for the subsequent ten-year period, implementation grants described in paragraph (3). Planning grants described in this paragraph are grants for plans relating to the following purposes:
To develop or expand academic programs to educate maternity care clinicians and maternity care support personnel, including— nurses with the intention of providing maternity, newborn, or sexual and reproductive health care; nurse-practitioners whose scope of practice includes maternity, newborn, or sexual and reproductive health care; and maternity care support personnel, such as doulas and lactation counselors. To develop or expand academic programs to educate obstetrician-gynecologists.
To be eligible to receive a grant under this paragraph, an eligible minority-serving institution shall submit to the Secretary an application in such form and manner and containing such information as specified by the Secretary. Each grant awarded under this paragraph shall be for an amount not to exceed $400,000 for each of two years. Each recipient of a grant under this paragraph shall submit to the Secretary an annual report describing the planned development or expansion of educational programs, including— the types of clinical or support personnel and the degrees or certificates to be conferred; the associated curricula; the faculty and their capabilities and commitments, including any plans for recruitment; the anticipated number of students to be enrolled and plans for their recruitment and social, emotional, and financial support; and the objectives and strategies for addressing inequities and preparing students to provide high-quality culturally congruent care.
Implementation grants described in this paragraph are grants to implement the strategies developed under paragraph (2). To be eligible to receive a grant under this paragraph, an eligible minority-serving institution 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 institution to carry out a strategy described in paragraph (2), plans for sustainability of the program after the culmination of the grant cycle, and any other information specified by the Secretary.
Each grant under this paragraph shall be for an amount not to exceed $1,000,000 each year during the 10-year period of the grant. For each of the first 9 years for which an eligible minority-serving institution is awarded a grant under this paragraph, the institution shall submit a report to the Secretary on the activities carried out by such institution through the grant during such year and objectives for the subsequent year. For the tenth year for which an eligible minority-serving institution is awarded a grant under this paragraph, the organization shall submit to the Secretary a report that includes an analysis of all the activities carried out by the institution through the grant and a detailed plan for continuation of the educational program.
For the purposes of this subsection, the term minority-serving institution means a historically Black college or university, Tribal college or university, Latino-serving institution, Asian American and Pacific Islander serving institution, or other minority-serving institution of higher education. There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out— subsection (a), $2,000,000 for fiscal year 2023 and $3,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2024 through 2027; and subsection (b), $4,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2023 and 2024 and $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2025 through 2034.