Section 145A.145 - NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMS(a) The commissioner of health shall award expansion grants to community health boards and tribal nations to expand existing nurse-family partnership programs. Grant funds must be used to start up, expand, or sustain nurse-family partnership programs in the county, reservation, or region to serve families in accordance with the Nurse-Family Partnership Service Office nurse-family partnership model. The commissioner shall award grants to community health boards, nonprofit organizations, or tribal nations in metropolitan and rural areas of the state.(b) Priority for all grants shall be given to nurse-family partnership programs that provide services through a Minnesota health care program-enrolled provider that accepts medical assistance. Priority for grants to rural areas shall be given to community health boards, nonprofit organizations, and tribal nations that start up, expand, or sustain services within regional partnerships that provide the nurse-family partnership program.(c) Funding available under this section may only be used to supplement, not to replace, funds being used for nurse-family partnership home visiting services as of June 30, 2015.Added by 2021 Minn. Laws, ch. 30,s 3-26, eff. 7/1/2021.