group practice facilities

group practice facilities Sec. 312. (a) Title XI of the National Housing Act is amended— (1) by inserting after “unit or organization” in section 1101 (b)(1) the following: “or other mortgagor”; (2) by inserting after “group practice facility” in section 1101 (b)(3) the following: “or medical practice facility”; (3) by inserting after “group practice facility” in section 1101 (e) the following: “or medical practice facility”; (4) by inserting after “group practice facility” in section 1101(f) the following: “or medical practice facility”; (5) by striking out in “(as defined in section 1106(1))” section 1105(a) and inserting in lieu thereof “or medical practice facility (as defined in section 1106)”; and (6) by redesignating paragraphs (2) through (8) of section 1106 as paragraphs (3) through (9), respectively, and by inserting after paragraph (1) of such section the following: “(2) The term ‘medical practice facility’ means an adequately equipped facility in which not more than four persons licensed to practice medicine in the State where the facility is located can provide, as may be appropriate, preventive, diagnostic, and treatment services, and which is situated in a rural area or small town, or in a low-income section of an urban area, in which there exists, as determined by the Secretary, a critical shortage of physicians. As used in this paragraph— “(A) the term ‘small town’ means any town, village, or city having a population of not more than 10,000 inhabitants accord-88 Stat. 684ing to the most recent available data compiled by the Bureau of the Census; and “(B) the term ‘low-income section of an urban area’ means a section of a larger urban area in which the median family income is substantially lower, as determined by the Secretary, than the median family income for the area as a whole.” (b) Section 1106 of such Act is amended as follows: (1) Paragraph (1) is amended by inserting “or osteopathy” after “practice medicine”, and by inserting after “State” where it last appears the following: “, or, in the case of podiatric care or treatment, is under the professional supervision of persons licensed to practice podiatry in the State”. (2) Paragraph (2) (as redesignated by subsection (a)(6) of this section) is amended by inserting “, osteopathy,” after “practice medicine”, and by inserting after “dentistry in the State,” the following: “or of persons licensed to practice podiatry in the State,”. (3) Paragraph (3)(A) (as so redesignated) is amended by inserting “osteopathic care,” after “comprehensive medical care,”, by striking out “or” after “optometric care,”, and by inserting after “dental care,” the following: “or podiatric care,”. (4) Paragraph (3)(B) (as so redesignated) is amended by inserting “osteopathic,”, after “medical,”, by striking out “or” after “optometric,”, and by inserting after “dental” the following: “or podiatric”.