§293l–1 Teaching health centers development grants

Summary

The Secretary may give grants to teaching health centers to start new or grow existing primary care residency programs. Grants can last up to 3 years and each grant can be no more than $500,000. Grant money must pay for start-up or expansion costs like creating curriculum; recruiting, training, and keeping residents and faculty; getting accreditation from ACGME, ADA, or AOA; paying faculty while the program is set up; and for technical help from a qualified organization. Teaching health centers must apply to the Secretary in the form and time required. Applications that show an existing affiliation with an area health education center program get preference. Eligible entity means an organization that can give technical help. Primary care residency programs include family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, internal medicine‑pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, psychiatry, general dentistry, pediatric dentistry, and geriatrics. Teaching health centers are community outpatient centers that run residency programs, including Federally qualified health centers, community mental health centers, rural health clinics, Indian Health Service/tribal/urban Indian health centers, and entities funded under subchapter VIII. Funding authorized: $25,000,000 for FY2010, $50,000,000 for FY2011, $50,000,000 for FY2012, and whatever sums are needed after that. No more than $5,000,000 each year may be used for technical assistance grants.