[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 98 (Monday, May 22, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27109-27110]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-12455]



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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration


Final Review Criteria for Grants for Geriatric Education Centers 
for Fiscal Year 1995

    The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) announces 
the final review criteria for Grants for Geriatric Education Centers 
for FY 1995 under the authority of section 777(a) of the Public Health 
Service Act, as amended by the Health Professions Education Extension 
Amendments of 1992, Public Law 102-408, dated October 13, 1992.

Purpose

    Grants may be awarded to support the development of collaborative 
arrangements involving several health professions schools and health 
care facilities. These arrangements, called Geriatric Education Centers 
(GECs), are established to facilitate training of health professional 
faculty, students, and practitioners in the diagnosis, treatment, and 
prevention of disease, disability, and other health problems of the 
aged. Health professionals include allopathic physicians, osteopathic 
physicians, dentists, optometrists, podiatrists, pharmacists, nurses, 
nurse practitioners, physician assistants, chiropractors, clinical 
psychologists, health administrators, and allied health professionals.
    Projects supported under these grants must offer training involving 
four or more health professions, one of which must be allopathic or 
osteopathic medicine. Projects must address one or more of the 
statutory purposes listed below:

(a) Improve the training of health professionals in geriatrics;
(b) Develop and disseminate curricula relating to the treatment of the 
health problems of elderly individuals;
(c) Expand and strengthen instruction in methods of such treatment;
(d) Support the training and retraining of faculty to provide such 
instruction;
(e) Support continuing education of health professionals and allied 
health professionals who provide such treatment; and
(f) Establish new affiliations with nursing homes, chronic and acute 
disease hospitals, ambulatory care centers, and senior centers in order 
to provide students with clinical training in geriatric medicine.

Eligibility

    Section 777(a) of the PHS Act authorizes the award of grants to 
accredited health professions schools as [[Page 27110]] defined by 
section 799(1), or programs for the training of physician assistants as 
defined by section 799(3), or schools of allied health as defined in 
section 799(4), or schools of nursing as defined by section 853(2).
    Applicants must be located in the United States, the Commonwealth 
of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the 
Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Republic of Palau, the 
Republic of the Marshall Islands, or the Federated States of 
Micronesia.
    A notice was published in the Federal Register at 60 FR 2396 on 
January 9, 1995 which proposed two new review criteria for Grants for 
Geriatric Education Centers. No comments were received within the 30 
day comment period. Therefore, the review criteria remain as proposed.

Review Criteria

    The following review criteria are established in 42 CFR part 57, 
subpart OO:
(1) The degree to which the proposed project adequately provides for 
the project requirements;
(2) The extent to which the rationale and specific objectives of the 
project are based upon a needs assessment of the status of geriatrics 
training in the institutions to be assisted and/or the geographic area 
to be served;
(3) The ability of the project to achieve the project objectives within 
the proposed geographic area;
(4) The adequacy of educational facilities and clinical training 
settings to accomplish objectives;
(5) The adequacy of organizational arrangements involving professional 
schools and other organizations necessary to carry out the project;
(6) The adequacy of the qualifications and experience in geriatrics of 
the project director, staff and faculty;
(7) The administrative and managerial ability of the applicant to carry 
out the proposed project in a cost-effective manner, and;
(8) The potential of the project to continue on a self-sustaining 
basis.

    In addition, the following review criteria are hereby finalized:

(9) If applicable, the extent to which there is evidence that the 
institutions jointly have planned and jointly will conduct the proposed 
consortial activities.
(10) The potential of the project to recruit and/or retain minority 
faculty members and trainees for participation in long term and/or 
short term training experiences.

    If additional information is needed, please contact: Lt. Commander 
Judith Arndt, Geriatric Initiatives Branch, Division of Associated, 
Dental, and Public Health Professions, Bureau of Health Professions, 
Health Resources and Services Administration, Parklawn Building, Room 
8-103, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857, Telephone: (301) 
443-6887.
    This program, Grants for Geriatric Education Centers, is listed at 
93.969 in the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance. It is not subject 
to the provisions of Executive Order 12372, Intergovernmental Review of 
Federal Programs (as implemented through 45 CFR part 100). This program 
is not subject to the Public Health System Reporting Requirements.

    Dated: May 16, 1995.
Ciro V. Sumaya,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 95-12455 Filed 5-19-95; 8:45 am]
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