Excellence in Minority Health Education and Care Act
PL 100-97 (S.769), enacted 08/18/1987

PUBLIC LAW 100-97—AUG. 18, 1987 
101 STAT. 713 
Public Law 100-97 
100th Congress 
An Act 
To provide grants to support excellence in minority health professions education. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may 
be cited as the "Excellence in Minority Health Education and Care 
Act". 
FINDINGS AND PURPOSES 
SEC. 2. (a) The Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) Minority health care needs are currently greater than the 
health care needs of the general population. 
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(2) While the number of health professionals has increased, 
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there are still shortages of health professionals from minority 
groups and there has been a drop in the enrollment of minority 
individuals in some health professions education programs. 
(3) Health professionals from minority groups have critical 
roles in serving low-income minority populations, particularly 
in inner-city areas and rural areas, 
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(4) Historically, minority schools have developed a special 
capacity to conduct activities to prepare health professionals to 
serve minority populations. 
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(5) Health professions schools which train a disproportionate 
number of minority students also provide a disproportionate 
amount of health care services to minority populations. 
(6) A disproportionate number of minority students trained at 
the schools described in paragraph (5) choose to practice in 
underserved areas. 
(7) In the United States— 
(A) there are only 4 schools of medicine, 2 schools of 
dentistry, and 4 schools of pharmacy which focus predomi-
nantly on minority health professions education, and 40 
percent of black physicians, 50 percent of all black dentists, 
and 25 percent of all black pharmacists have trained at one 
of those schools; and 
(B) there is only 1 school of veterinary medicine which 
focuses predominantly on the training of minority stu-
dents, and that school has trained 75 percent of all black 
veterinarians. 
(b) The purposes of this Act are to— 
(1) strengthen the national capacity to train minority stu-
dents in the health professions; and 
(2) support the health professions schools which have trained 
a significant number of the Nation's minority health profes-
sionals and enable those schools to supply health professionals 
to serve minority populations in underserved areas. 
Aug. 18, 1987 
[S. 769] 
Excellence in 
Minority Health 
Education and 
Care Act. 
42 u s e 201 note. 
42 u s e 295g-8a 
note. 
ASSISTANCE 
SEC. 3. Part F of title VII of the Public Health Service Act is 
amended by inserting before section 788B the following new section: 
"GRANTS FOR MINORITY EDUCATION 
"SEC. 788A. (a) The Secretary shall make grants to health profes-
sions schools to assist such schools in supporting programs of excel-
lence in health professions education for minority individuals. A 
grant under this section shall be used by a health professions school 
to— 
Schools and 
colleges. 
42 u s e 295g-8a. 
101 STAT. 714 
PUBLIC LAW 100-97—AUG. 18, 1987 
Libraries. 
42 u s e 292a. 
Contracts. 
42 u s e 295g-8b. 
Appropriation 
authorization. 
"(1) develop a plan to achieve institutional improvements, 
including financial independence, to enable such school to sup-
port programs of excellence in health professions education for 
minority individuals; 
"(2) improve the capacity of such school to recruit and retain 
faculty; 
"(3) provide improved access to the library and information 
resources of such school; 
"(4) establish, strengthen, or expand programs to enhance the 
academic performance of students in such school; 
"(5) establish, strengthen, or expand programs to increase the 
number and quality of applicants for admission to such school; 
and 
"(6) develop curricula and carry out faculty training programs 
in order to enable such school to become, for the Nation's health 
care providers, a resource with respect to the health problems of 
minority communities, such as higher infant mortality rates 
and higher incidences of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. 
"(b) No grant may be made under this section unless an applica-
tion therefor has been submitted to the Secretary at such time, in 
such form, and containing such information, as the Secretary may 
by regulation prescribe. 
"(c) In order to be eligible for a grant under this section, a health 
professions school must— 
"(1) be a school described in section 701(4); and 
"(2) have received a contract under section 788B for fiscal 
year 1987. 
"(d) To carry out this section, there are authorized to be appro-
priated $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1988 and such sums as may be 
necessary for each of the fiscal years 1989,1990, and 1991.". 
Approved August 18, 1987. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—S. 769: 
SENATE REPORTS: No. 100-110 (Comm. on Labor and Human Resources). 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 133 (1987): 
July 21, considered and passed Senate. 
Aug. 4, considered and passed House. 
WEEKLY COMPILATION OF PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS, Vol. 23 (1987): 
Aug. 19, Presidential statement.