Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 89.djvu/396

 89 STAT. 336

Priority areas.

Grants.

PUBLIC LAW 94-63—JULY 29, 1975 "(7) The term 'supplemental health services' means services which are not included as primary health services and which are— " (A) hospital services; "(B) home health services; "(C) extended care facility services; "(D) rehabilitative services (including physical therapy) and long-term physical medicine; " (E) mental health services; " (F) dental services; "(G) vision services; " (H) allied health services; " (I) pharmaceutical services; " (J) therapeutic radiologic services; " (K) public health services (including nutrition education and social services); " (L) health education services; and " (M) services which promote and facilitate optimal use of primary health services and the services referred to in the preceding subparagraphs of this paragraph, including, if a substantial number of the individuals in the population served by a migrant health center are of limited English-speaking ability, the services of outreach workers fluent in the language spoken by a predominant number of such individuals. "(b)(1) The Secretary shall assign to high impact areas and any other areas (where appropriate) priorities for the provision of assistance under this section to projects and programs m such areas. The highest priorities for such assistance shall be assigned to areas in which reside the greatest number of migratory agricultural workers and the members of their families for the longest period of time. "(2) No application for a grant under subsection (c) or (d) for a project in an area which has no migratory agricultural workers may be approved unless grants have been provided for all approved applications under such subsections for projects in areas with migratory agricultural workers. "(c)(1)(A) The Secretary may, in accordance with the priorities, assigned under subsection (b)(1), make grants to public and nonprofit private entities for projects to plan and develop migrant health centers which will serve migratory agricultural workers, seasonal agricultural workers, and the members of the families of such migratory and seasonal workers, in high impact areas. A project for which a grant may be made under this subparagraph may include the cost of the acquisition and modernization of existing buildings (including the costs of amortizing the principal of, and paying the interest on, loans) and the costs of providing training related to the management of migrant health center programs, and shall include— "(i) an assessment of the need that the workers (and the members of the families of such workers) proposed to be served by the migrant health center for which the project is undertaken have for primary health services, supplemental health services, and environmental health services; "(ii) the design of a migrant health center program for such workers and the members of their families, based on such assessment; " (iii) efforts to secure, within the proposed catchment area of such center, financial and professional assistance and support for the project; and

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