Cal. Health & Safety Code § 128230
Song-Brown Health Care Workforce Training Act
Redline — January 1, 2013 → current.View current text →
Current — January 1, 2021
As of January 1, 2013
When making recommendations to the Director of the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development concerning the funding of primary care and family medicine programs or departments, primary care and family medicine residencies, and programs for the training of primary care physician assistants, primary care nurse practitioners, or registered nurses, the commission shall give priority to programs that have demonstrated success in the following areas:
When funding primary care and family medicine programs or departments, primary care and family medicine residencies, and programs for the training of postgraduate primary care physician’s assistants, primary care physician assistants, postgraduate primary care nurse practitioners, primary care nurse practitioners, certified nurse-midwives, licensed midwives, or registered nurses, the department shall give priority to programs that have demonstrated success in the following areas:
(a) Actual placement of individuals in medically underserved areas.
(a) Graduating individuals who practice in medically underserved areas.
(b) Success in attracting and admitting members of minority groups to the program.
(b) Enrolling members of underrepresented groups in medicine to the program.
(c) Success in attracting and admitting individuals who were former residents of medically underserved areas.
(c) Locating the program’s main training site in a medically underserved area.
(e) The degree to which the program has agreed to accept individuals with an obligation to repay loans awarded pursuant to the Health Professions Education Fund.
(d) Operating a main training site at which the majority of the patients are Medi-Cal recipients.
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