regional health professions programs

regional health professions programs Sec. 301. Section 721 is amended by adding after subsection (e) the following new subsection: “(f) (1) An application for a grant under subsection (a) for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1977, for an affiliated clinical facility for the establishment or expansion of a regional health professions program may be filed by any public or other nonprofit agency if the application is approved by the school of veterinary medicine, optometry, podiatry, or pharmacy with which the facility is affiliated. Only that portion of the project to construct such a facility which the Secretary determines to be reasonably attributable to the need of the regional health professions program for the facility for teaching purposes shall be regarded as the project with respect to which payments may be made under section 722. “(2) In considering applications for grants under subsection (a) for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1977, the Secretary shall give special consideration to applications for facilities for the establishment or expansion of regional health professions programs. “(3) For the purposes of this subsection, the term ‘regional health professions program’ refers to an interstate program (A) in which a State with an existing degree-granting school of veterinary medicine, optometry, podiatry, or pharmacy sets up a cooperative program with another State (or other States) which does not have such a school, and (B) which provides for (i) a shared curriculum between two or more schools, or (ii) a single campus which is cooperatively financed and controlled by two or more States.”.