New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 7 - HEALTH › Chapter 29 - PRIMARY AND RURAL HEALTH CARE SERVICES › Part 2 - NEW MEXICO HEALTH SERVICE CORPS › Section 7.29.2.7 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A. "Advisory
				committee" means a committee appointed by the secretary of the department
				composed of representatives of the department, university of New Mexico health
				sciences center training departments, health professional organizations,
				primary care clinics and consumers for purposes of recommending student
				selection of commitment stipends, prioritizing a list of eligible communities
				and practice sites, and advising the corps on program policy.
B. "Corps" means the New Mexico health
				service corps, an entity of the department.
C. "Commitment stipend" means the monies
				provided to health professional students and licensed health professionals in
				return for a promise stated in a contract to serve at an eligible community or
				practice site in New Mexico for at least two years.
D. "Commitment stipend contract" means a
				contract executed between the corps and licensed health professionals or
				students outlining provisions of service, potential eligible
				communities/practice site placements, penalties and forgiveness
				provisions.
E. "Dental hygienist"
				means an individual licensed as a registered dental hygienist (R.D.H.) in New
				Mexico.
F. "Dentist" means an
				individual licensed as a doctor of dental surgery (D.D.S.) or doctor of medical
				dentistry (D.M.D.) in New Mexico.
G. "Department" means the New Mexico
				department of health.
H. "Eligible
				community" means a location in New Mexico that has satisfied criteria
				established by the department as a medically underserved area for specific
				health professionals.
I. "Emergency
				medical technician-paramedic" means a paramedic licensed to practice in New
				Mexico by the department.
J.
				"Health professional" means a licensed physician, physician assistant, nurse
				practitioner, nurse midwife, emergency medical technician-paramedic, dentist,
				or dental hygienist.
K. "Medically
				underserved area" means a community or area in New Mexico designated by the
				department as having a shortage of specific health professionals.
L. "Nurse-midwife" means an individual
				licensed by the New Mexico board of nursing and certified by the American
				college of nurse-midwives accreditation council.
M. "Nurse practitioner" means an individual
				licensed as a nurse practitioner in New Mexico.
N. "Physician" means an allopathic doctor or
				doctor of osteopathic medicine licensed to practice in New Mexico.
O. "Physician assistant" means a physician
				assistant or osteopathic physician assistant certified to practice in New
				Mexico.
P. "Practice site" means a
				public health clinic, a public or private nonprofit primary care clinic that is
				located in a state-designated medically underserved area or that serves a
				high-needs population, and that uses a sliding fee scale approved by the
				department.
Q. "Resident" means a
				licensed allopathic or osteopathic physician who is engaged in a postgraduate
				residency program in the following specialties: family practice, internal
				medicine, emergency medicine, pediatrics, dentistry, or OB-GYN.
R. "Service" means at least 1,600 hours of
				on-site health care during each one-year period or as negotiated with the
				corps, and as agreed upon in a written contract.
S. "Service contract" means a contract
				executed between the corps and the health professional outlining the provisions
				of service, eligible community/practice site placement, forgiveness and penalty
				provisions.
T. "Student" means a
				potential health professional who is domiciled in New Mexico, and is enrolled
				in or accepted by an accredited or otherwise approved educational program or
				performing their preceptorship in the fields of nurse practitioner, nurse
				midwifery, physician assistant, or emergency medical technician-paramedic; or
				participating in an allopathic or osteopathic medical residency program,
				clinical dental school program, dental hygiene program, or dental residency
				program. Persons enrolled in a clinical dental school program, dental hygiene
				program, or dental residency program are exempted from the requirement that
				they be domiciled in New Mexico.