164.0403 Healthcare training scholarships -- Partnership proposal requirements --
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Partnership contract -- Scholarship contract -- Restrictions -- Recoupment --
Prohibitions.
(1)The council shall reserve at least sixty-five percent (65%) of all net moneys in the
Kentucky healthcare workforce investment fund for partnership proposals between
healthcare programs and healthcare partners to provide healthcare training
scholarships to Kentucky residents enrolled in healthcare programs in Kentucky.
(2)In accepting partnerships, the council shall evaluate each partnership proposal to
determine if the proposal meets the requirements of this section and administrative
regulations promulgated by the council. The administrative regulations shall create
a process to prioritize accepting partnerships to proposals:
(a)Targeted to address the specific needs of a historically underserved county or
to improve racial and ethnic diversity within a specific designated healthcare
credential targeted by the partnership;
(b)Targeted to reduce the workforce demand of a specific eligible healthcare
credential that is determined by the council, based on objective criteria, to be
among the highest in demand in the Commonwealth; or
(c)From healthcare partners with fifty
(50)or fewer employees.
(3)A partnership shall require a written partnership contract between a healthcare
program, healthcare partner, and the council. The partnership contract shall:
(a)Prohibit any disbursement of moneys from the Kentucky healthcare
workforce investment fund until the moneys appropriated by the General
Assembly to be distributed are matched, at least dollar for dollar, with moneys
deposited to the fund by the healthcare partner;
(b)Require the healthcare program to use all moneys distributed to the healthcare
program pursuant to the partnership contract to issue direct healthcare training
scholarships to Kentucky students enrolled in the healthcare program;
(c)If applicable to a healthcare program, require that the healthcare training
scholarship application process encourage applicants to complete the Free
Application for Federal Student Aid; and
(d)Meet all other requirements set forth in this section and administrative
regulation, including but not limited to any reporting requirements to the
council.
(4)Disbursements of moneys from the Kentucky healthcare workforce investment fund
to support healthcare training scholarships shall be made directly to a healthcare
program pursuant to the terms of the partnership contract.
(5)A healthcare program that enters a partnership contract shall solicit, accept, and
review healthcare training scholarship applications submitted by students enrolled
in the healthcare program. A partnership contract may require that a healthcare
program do so in collaboration with the healthcare partner. The healthcare program
shall award healthcare training scholarships pursuant to any scholarship criteria set
forth in the partnership contract, this section, and administrative regulations. The
decisions of the healthcare program in the issuance of scholarships shall be final.
(6)A healthcare training scholarship issued by a healthcare program pursuant to a
partnership contract shall be made directly to a recipient pursuant to a written
scholarship contract between the recipient and the healthcare program. The
scholarship contract shall not restrict the recipient's ability to utilize the scholarship
for the total cost of attendance. Each recipient of a scholarship shall:
(a)Agree in the written contract to practice as a licensed or certified medical
professional in the Commonwealth for a contract period of one
(1)year for
each academic year funded by the scholarship up to a maximum of two
total years; and
(b)Sign a promissory note as evidence of the scholarship and the obligation to
repay the scholarship amount upon failure to complete terms of the contract.
(7)A grantor may place restrictions upon a contribution to the Kentucky healthcare
workforce investment fund requiring specific criteria for a healthcare training
scholarship or scholarships funded by the grantor's dedicated funds to students who
agree in the scholarship contract required by subsection (6)(a) of this section to
practice as a certified or licensed healthcare professional, including but not limited
to criteria restricting:
(a)Except as provided in subsection
(9)of this section, employment by the
healthcare partner for the contract period; or
(b)Employment at a location within a designated geographic area of the
Commonwealth for the contract period.
(8)The healthcare training scholarship contract shall grant the healthcare program, the
Commonwealth, or the healthcare partner the authority to initiate recoupment
proceedings for the recovery of the total amount of all healthcare training
scholarships awarded to an individual that fails to complete the terms of a contract
entered into in accordance with subsection
(6)of this section, together with
reasonable attorney fees and interest at a compound rate not to exceed eight percent
(8%) per annum from the date of disbursement from the fund.
(a)A healthcare training scholarship shall not be awarded to an applicant enrolled
in a state registered nursing aide training and competency evaluation program
who is:
1. Not charged for any portion of the program pursuant to 42 C.F.R. sec.
483.152(c)(1); or
2. Eligible for reimbursement for the costs of the program pursuant to 42
C.F.R. sec. 483.152(c)(2) prior to entering the scholarship contract.
(b)A healthcare training scholarship awarded to applicants enrolled in a state
registered nursing aide training and competency evaluation program shall not
include an employment restriction that would restrict the recipient to be
employed by a specific healthcare partner for the contract period required by
subsection
(6)of this section or that would otherwise constitute an offer of
employment in accordance with 42 C.F.R. sec. 483.152(c)(1).
(10)An applicant who has been listed on the nurse aide abuse registry with a
substantiated finding of abuse, neglect, or misappropriation of property shall not be
eligible for a healthcare training scholarship.