Title 25, IndiansRelease 119-110

§1616e–1 Nursing School Clinics

Title 25 › CHAPTER 18 — INDIAN HEALTH CARE › SUBCHAPTER I — INDIAN HEALTH PROFESSIONAL PERSONNEL › § 1616e–1

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary, through the Service, can give grants to public or private nursing schools so they can set up, run, and manage clinics that meet the health needs of Indians and provide primary care to Indians who live on or within 50 miles of Indian country (as defined in 18 U.S.C. 1151). Grants may pay to create clinics run by faculty and students, fund clinical training, program development, faculty improvement, and student scholarships that help the clinics, and support other activities the Secretary approves. The Secretary decides grant amounts and any rules for them. Clinics must give nursing students a structured clinical experience like physician residency programs. The Secretary must write any needed regulations. For each fiscal year 1993 through 2000, no more than $5,000,000 from amounts appropriated to carry out this subchapter may be used for these grants.

Full Legal Text

Title 25, §1616e–1

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(a)Grants

In addition to the authority of the Secretary under section 1616e(a)(1) of this title, the Secretary, acting through the Service, is authorized to provide grants to public or private schools of nursing for the purpose of establishing, developing, operating, and administering clinics to address the health care needs of Indians, and to provide primary health care services to Indians who reside on or within 50 miles of Indian country, as defined in section 1151 of title 18.

(b)Purposes

Grants provided under subsection (a) may be used to—

(1)establish clinics, to be run and staffed by the faculty and students of a grantee school, to provide primary care services in areas in or within 50 miles of Indian country (as defined in section 1151 of title 18);

(2)provide clinical training, program development, faculty enhancement, and student scholarships in a manner that would benefit such clinics; and

(3)carry out any other activities determined appropriate by the Secretary.

(c)Amount and conditions

The Secretary may award grants under this section in such amounts and subject to such conditions as the Secretary deems appropriate.

(d)Design

The clinics established under this section shall be designed to provide nursing students with a structured clinical experience that is similar in nature to that provided by residency training programs for physicians.

(e)Regulations

The Secretary shall prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this section.

(f)Authorization to use amounts

Out of amounts appropriated to carry out this subchapter for each of the fiscal years 1993 through 2000 not more than $5,000,000 may be used to carry out this section.

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Citation

25 U.S.C. § 1616e–1

Title 25, Indians

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110