Search Results for keywords:"medically underserved areas"

Search Results: keywords:"medically underserved areas"

H. R. 10337 — To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a demonstration project to make grants to eligible hospitals for the purpose of promoting work-based learning in health care, and for other purposes.
December 10, 2024
Status:Introduced in House
Congress:118
Words:2,421
H. R. 10337, titled the “Expanding the Health Care Workforce Act,” aims to change the Public Health Service Act to create a program that gives grants to hospitals. These grants are for high schools to start or grow programs that help students learn and work in health care...
Simple Explanation
The "Expanding the Health Care Workforce Act" wants to help high schools teach students how to work in hospitals by giving money to hospitals to start or grow these programs, especially in places that need it the most.
H. R. 7503 — To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide health equity for people with disabilities.
February 29, 2024
Status:Introduced in House
Congress:118
Words:863
H.R. 7503 is a proposed amendment to the Public Health Service Act, aiming to ensure that people with disabilities receive equitable healthcare. The bill seeks to include people with disabilities in programs that serve populations in public housing and medically underserved...
Simple Explanation
H.R. 7503 is a plan to make sure people with disabilities get fair healthcare, by making hospitals and clinics easier to use and making sure they include everyone, just like a rule that already exists helps people with disabilities.
H. R. 7266 — To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants to support schools of nursing in increasing the number of nursing students and faculty and in program enhancement and infrastructure modernization, and for other purposes.
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February 07, 2024
Status:Introduced in House
Congress:118
Words:1,339
H.R. 7266, also called the "Future Advancement of Academic Nursing Act" or "FAAN Act," aims to amend the Public Health Service Act to support nursing schools in the U.S. The bill proposes grants for increasing the number of nursing students and faculty, especially in...
Simple Explanation
The "FAAN Act" is like giving schools money to help teach more nurses and get better classrooms and teachers, especially in places where there aren't enough doctors. It wants to spend $1 billion, which is a big number, to make sure more people can learn to be nurses and help others stay healthy.
H. R. 9365 — To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage under the Medicare program of pharmacist services.
August 16, 2024
Status:Introduced in House
Congress:118
Words:603
H.R. 9365 is a bill introduced in the House of Representatives that aims to change the Social Security Act to let Medicare cover services provided by pharmacists. The bill allows pharmacists to be paid for services they are licensed to perform if these services could be...
Simple Explanation
H.R. 9365 wants to change a law so that people with Medicare can pay pharmacists to help them with health tasks, like they pay doctors, especially if there aren’t enough doctors around. Starting January 2024, pharmacists would get most of the money a doctor would earn for the same job in these areas.

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