Excellence in Minority Health Education and Care Act
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What it doesSummary introduced in house (Feb 4, 1987)
Excellence in Minority Health Education and Care Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to empower the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to: (1) Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee; (2) Xavier University College of Pharmacy, New Orleans, Louisiana; (3) Tuskegee University School of Veterinary Medicine, Tuskegee, Alabama; and (4) Meharry College of Dentistry, Nashville, Tennessee.
Requires each institution to use such grants to establish, in the pertinent health care discipline, a Center of Excellence, which shall: (1) improve the recruitment of minority students and high calibre minority faculty to the institution; (2) develop effective techniques for training minorities who will serve minority populations; and (3) establish scholarship programs to attract promising individuals to the Center's programs.
Sets forth additional uses for the grants to the institutions, to include: (1) maintenance of a communications network to disseminate information concerning health promotion among minorities; (2) development of patient educational materials tailored to the needs of minority populations; (3) establishment of a research program focusing on the needs of minority women and teenagers; (4) study of alternative models for health care delivery systems; and (5) consultation and assistance by the recipient institutions to other medical schools to aid the latter in effecting more productive education and service programs for minority populations.
Enumerates specific grant projects appropriate to the subject matter expertise of each of the four institutions eligible to receive the grants.
Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1991.
What just happenedAug 4, 1987
Ordered to be Reported (Amended).
Who’s behind it
- Aug 4, 1987CommitteeH19000
Ordered to be Reported (Amended).
Energy and Commerce Committee - Aug 4, 1987CommitteeH19100
For Further Action See S.769.
Energy and Commerce Committee - Aug 4, 1987CommitteeH15000-B
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Energy and Commerce Committee - Jul 30, 1987CommitteeH23000
Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee.
Health and Environment Subcommittee - Jul 30, 1987CommitteeH22000
Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Health and Environment Subcommittee - Jul 20, 1987CommitteeH21000
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Health and Environment Subcommittee - Feb 18, 1987CommitteeH11000
Referred to Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.
Health and Environment Subcommittee - Feb 4, 1987IntroReferralH11100
Referred to House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Energy and Commerce Committee - Feb 4, 1987IntroReferralIntro-H
Introduced in House
- Feb 4, 1987IntroReferral1000
Introduced in House