§294j Demonstration Program to Integrate Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Training Into Clinical Education of Health Professionals

Summary

The Secretary may give competitive, peer-reviewed grants to eligible schools or groups to create and test curricula that add quality improvement and patient safety training into health professionals’ clinical education. To get a grant, an applicant must apply as required, include or work with schools like health professions, public health, social work, nursing, pharmacy, graduate medical education programs, or health care administration, work with the school’s accrediting body, collect data on how well the project works, and provide matching funds. Matching funds must be at least $1 of non-Federal money or fair-value in-kind support for every $5 of Federal grant money. Federal money or federally subsidized services cannot count toward the match. The Secretary must evaluate funded projects, publish and share the results widely, and, not later than 2 years after March 23, 2010, and annually after that, send a report to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and the Committee on Finance of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives describing the projects and giving recommendations based on the evaluations.