§294j Demonstration program to integrate quality improvement and patient safety training into clinical education of health professionals

Summary

The Secretary can give competitive, peer‑reviewed grants to schools or groups to create and test curricula that add patient safety and quality‑improvement training into the clinical education of health professionals. To get a grant, an applicant must send the required application, be or include a health professions or related school (for example: public health, social work, nursing, pharmacy, health care administration, or a graduate medical education program), work with its accrediting organization, collect data on how well the project works, and provide matching funds. Grant recipients must provide at least $1 in non‑Federal money or in‑kind support for every $5 of Federal grant funds. Federal money or services largely paid for by the Federal Government cannot count toward the match. The Secretary must evaluate and publish the results and, not later than 2 years after March 23, 2010, and annually after that, report to the Senate Committees on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and on Finance and to the House Committees on Energy and Commerce and on Ways and Means describing the projects and giving recommendations.