§300s — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary must make rules to decide which projects get priority for help under part A or B. The rules must weigh the needs of different areas and give extra weight to projects for low-resource or rural areas; to modernization in crowded cities; to outpatient centers in rural or urban poverty areas; to work that fixes immediate safety hazards or avoids failing licensing or accreditation; and to facilities that will offer full care like prevention, outpatient services, and hospitalization. The Secretary must also set basic construction, modernization, and equipment standards that can change by facility type and location. The Secretary must explain how anyone who gets or got money under part A, part B, or subchapter IV must keep the promises they made and show they followed them.

Title 42, §300s

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The Secretary shall by regulation—

(1)prescribe the manner in which he shall determine the priority among projects for which assistance is available under part A or B, based on the relative need of different areas for such projects and giving special consideration—

(A)to projects for medical facilities serving areas with relatively small financial resources and for medical facilities serving rural communities,

(B)in the case of projects for modernization of medical facilities, to projects for facilities serving densely populated areas,

(C)in the case of projects for construction of outpatient medical facilities, to projects that will be located in, and provide services for residents of, areas determined by the Secretary to be rural or urban poverty areas,

(D)to projects designed to (i) eliminate or prevent imminent safety hazards as defined by Federal, State, or local fire, building, or life safety codes or regulations, or (ii) avoid noncompliance with State or voluntary licensure or accreditation standards, and

(E)to projects for medical facilities which, alone or in conjunction with other facilities, will provide comprehensive health care, including outpatient and preventive care as well as hospitalization;

(2)prescribe for medical facilities projects assisted under part A or B general standards of construction, modernization, and equipment, which standards may vary on the basis of the class of facilities and their location; and

(3)prescribe the general manner in which each entity which receives financial assistance under part A or B or has received financial assistance under part A or B or subchapter IV shall be required to comply with the assurances required to be made at the time such assistance was received and the means by which such entity shall be required to demonstrate compliance with such assurances.

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Prior Provisions

A prior section 300s, act

July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XVI, § 1630, as added Jan. 4, 1975, Pub. L. 93–641, § 4, 88 Stat. 2269, provided for judicial review by the United States Court of Appeals, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 96–79, § 202(b), eff. Oct. 1, 1979. A prior section 1620 of act

July 1, 1944, was renumbered section 1601 by Pub. L. 96–79, title II, § 203(a)(1), Oct. 4, 1979, 93 Stat. 635, and is classified to section 300q of this title.

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Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1979, see section 204 of Pub. L. 96–79, set out as an

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of 1979 Amendment note under section 300q of this title.

§300s General regulations

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Title 42, §300s

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