62 Pa. Stat. § 5001.1304

Current through Pa Acts 2024-53, 2024-56 through 2024-92

Section 5001.1304 - Primary health care grants program

The Department of Health shall, as part of the Primary Health Care Practitioners Program provided for in this chapter, establish a program for awarding demonstration grants to promote the training, recruitment and retention of primary health care practitioners in designated medically underserved areas and to promote innovative methods for delivery of primary medical services in rural designated medically underserved areas. The purpose of these grants may include, but need not be limited to, the following:

(1) Promoting health care professions to high school students.

(2) Encouraging local communities in designated medically underserved areas to support primary health care practitioners.

(3) Promoting specific programs for the education, recruitment and retention of family practitioners, particularly in designated medically underserved areas.

Such programs may include challenge grants to medical schools to promote medical education opportunities for primary health care professionals and assistance to communities to establish clinics, including mobile health clinics. In establishing priorities, the department shall give preference to programs which promote coordination of existing resources, particularly in rural areas.

62 P.S. § 5001.1304

1992, Dec. 2, P.L. 741, No. 113, § 1304, effective in 90 days.