home health services

home health services Sec. 602. (a) (1) For the purpose of demonstrating the establishment and initial operation of public and nonprofit private agencies (as defined in section 1861 (o) of the Social Security Act) which will provide home health services (as defined in section 1861 (m) of the Social Security Act) in areas in which such services are not otherwise available, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare may, in accordance with the provisions of this section, make grants to meet the initial costs of establishing and operating such agencies and expanding the services available through existing agencies, and to meet the costs of compensating professional and paraprofessional personnel during the initial operation of such agencies or the expansion of services of existing agencies. (2) In making grants under this subsection, the Secretary shall consider the relative needs of the several States for home health services and preference shall be given to areas within a State in which a high percentage of the population proposed to be served is composed of individuals who are elderly, medically indigent, or both. (3) Applications for grants under this subsection shall be in such form and contain such information as the Secretary shall prescribe by regulation. 89 STAT. 347 (4) Payment of grants under this subsection may be made in advance or by way of reimbursement or in installments as the Secretary may determine. (5) There are authorized to be appropriated $8,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 for payments under grants under this subsection. (b) (1) The Secretary of Health. Education, and Welfare may make grants to public and nonprofit private entities to assist them in demonstrating the training of professional and paraprofessional personnel to provide home health services (as defined in section 1861 (m) of the Social Security Act). (2) Applications for grants under this subsection shall be in such form and contain such information as the Secretary shall by regulations, prescribe. (3) Payment of grants under this section may be made in advance or by way of reimbursement, or in installments, as the Secretary shall determine. (4) There is authorized to be appropriated $2,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 for payments under grants under this subsection.