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 90 STAT. 2320

Report.

Grants.

Grants and contracts.

PUBLIC LAW 94-484—OCT. 12, 1976 which such grant is sought an amount of funds (other than funds for construction, as determined by the Secretary) from non-Federal sources which is at least as great as the average amount of funds expended by such applicant for such training in the preceding two years. "(4) In the case of a school which has received a grant under this subsection in the immediately preceding fiscal year, the amount granted to that school under this subsection in any fiscal year may not exceed 75 percent of the amount granted to that school under this subsection in that immediately preceding fiscal year. "(5) The Secretary may provide to any school eligible for a grant under this subsection technical assistance to enable the school to conduct a comprehensive cost analysis study of its operations, to identify operational inefficiencies, and to develop or carry out appropriate operational, managerial, and financial reforms. "(6) The Secretary shall prepare and submit on or before September 30, 1978, a report on the administration of this subsection. Such report shall give special emphasis to a description of the results of any comprehensive cost analysis study carried out under paragraph (2) (B) and any operational, managerial, and financial reforms instituted under paragraph (2)(C). "(c) The Secretary may make grants to any health profession, allied health profession, or nurse training institution, or to any other public or nonprofit private entity for the development of programs for cooperative interdisciplinary training among schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, podiatry, nursing, public health, and allied health, which emphasize— "(1) the use of the team approach to the delivery of health services, "(2) the training of ph^'sician assistants and nurse practitioners with physicians and expanded function dental auxiliaries with dentists, and "(3) the training of physicians, dentists, nurses, and other health professionals in the organization, management, and effective utilization of such assistants, practitioners, and auxiliaries, "(d) The Secretary may make grants to and enter into contracts with any health profession, allied health profession, or nurse training institution, or any other public or nonprofit private entity for health manpower projects and programs such as— "(1) speech pathology, audiology, bioanalysis, and medical technology; "(2) establishing humanism in health care centers; " (3) biomedical combined educational programs; "(4) cooperative human behavior and psychiatry in medical and dental education and practice; " (5) bilingual health clinical training centers; "(6) curriculum development in schools of optometry, pharmacy and podiatry; " (7) social work in health care; " (8) health manpower development; "(9) environmental health education and preventive medicine; "(10) the special medical problems related to women; "(11) the development or expansion of regional health professions schools; "(12) training of citizens of the United States from foreign health professions schools to enable them to enroll in residency programs in the States;

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