3.0.0 896 2023-01-11T19:45:55Z 2023-01-11T19:45:55Z Senate S S 2007-03-15 110 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2007-03-15T20:06:04Z United States Physician Shortage Elimination Act of 2007 110 410 HR 2007-02-02 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Related bill CRS 2007-03-15 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2007-03-15 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3204-3206) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2007-03-15 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress M001153 Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK] Lisa Murkowski R AK N S000148 Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY] Charles Schumer D NY E. 2007-03-15 True S000888 Sen. Stevens, Ted [R-AK] THEODORE STEVENS R AK F. 2007-03-15 True S000033 Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT] Bernard Sanders I VT 2007-03-15 True Health Access to health care Authorization Building construction Child health Clinics Community health services Construction costs Curricula Department of Health and Human Services Economics and Public Finance Education Education of the disadvantaged Emergency Management Emergency medicine Families Federal aid to education Federal aid to health facilities Government Operations and Politics Higher education Hospitals Housing and Community Development Indian medical care Labor and Employment Leases Maintenance and repair Medical education Medical personnel Medical residents Medical supplies Medicare Mentoring Minorities Minorities in medicine Minority education Obstetrics Physicians Public health personnel Recruiting of employees Rural health Scholarships Social Welfare Student loan funds Health 00 2007-03-15 Introduced in Senate 2007-06-04T21:10:06Z Physician Shortage Elimination Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations for FY2008-FY2012 to: (1) carry out the National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program and Loan Repayment Program to assure an adequate supply of physicians and other health professionals to provide primary health services; (2) assist schools in supporting programs of excellence in health professionals education for underrepresented minority individuals; and (3) assist individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds to undertake education to enter a health profession.

Allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to community health centers to: (1) establish new or alternative-campus accredited medical residency training programs affiliated with a hospital or other health care facility; or (2) fund new residency positions within existing accredited medical residency training programs at the centers and their affiliated partners. Requires the Secretary to give preference to funding medical residency training programs focusing on primary health care.

Allows the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to make grants to community health centers to: (1) increase the number of medical service providers associated with such centers; and (2) increase primary health care capabilities through the construction, expansion, or renovation of facilities.

Authorizes the Secretary to award grants to recipients of financial assistance for area health education center programs to improve the effectiveness of such programs.

Amends title XVIII (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to make changes to the direct and indirect graduate medical education provisions regarding costs for the training program for purposes of counting the number of residents in a non-hospital setting. Sets forth requirements for a medical residency training program to be considered an accredited training program with an integrated rural track.

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