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Health and Safety Code - HSC

DIVISION 107. HEALTH CARE ACCESS AND INFORMATION [127000 - 130079]

  ( Heading of Division 107 amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 143, Sec. 28. )
  

PART 3. HEALTH PROFESSIONS DEVELOPMENT [127825 - 128565]

  ( Part 3 added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 9. )
  

CHAPTER 4. Health Care Workforce Training Programs [128200 - 128299]

  ( Heading of Chapter 4 amended (as added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 1023) by Stats. 2006, Ch. 259, Sec. 5. )
  

ARTICLE 1. Song-Brown Health Care Workforce Training Act [128200 - 128235]
  ( Heading of Article 1 amended (as added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 1023) by Stats. 2006, Ch. 259, Sec. 6. )

  
128230.  

When funding primary care and family medicine programs or departments, primary care and family medicine residencies, and programs for the training of postgraduate primary care physician’s assistants, primary care physician assistants, postgraduate primary care nurse practitioners, primary care nurse practitioners, certified nurse-midwives, licensed midwives, or registered nurses, the department shall give priority to programs that have demonstrated success in the following areas:

(a) Graduating individuals who practice in medically underserved areas.

(b) Enrolling members of underrepresented groups in medicine to the program.

(c) Locating the program’s main training site in a medically underserved area.

(d) Operating a main training site at which the majority of the patients are Medi-Cal recipients.

(Amended by Stats. 2022, Ch. 738, Sec. 9. (AB 204) Effective September 29, 2022.)