[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 42, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 42CFR23.2]

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                         TITLE 42--PUBLIC HEALTH
 
    CHAPTER I--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 
                                SERVICES
 
PART 23--NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CORPS--Table of Contents
 
    Subpart A--Assignment of National Health Service Corps Personnel
 
Sec. 23.2  Definitions.

    As used in this subpart:
    Act means the Public Health Service Act, as amended.
    Assigned National Health Service Corps personnel or Corps personnel 
means health personnel of the Regular and Reserve Corps of the Public 
Health Service Commissioned Corps and civilian personnel as designated 
by the Secretary including, but not limited to, physicians, dentists, 
nurses, and other health professions personnel who are assigned under 
section 333 of the Act and this regulation.
    Health manpower shortage area means the geographic area, the 
population group, the public or nonprofit private medical facility or 
any other public facility which has been determined by the Secretary to 
have a shortage of health manpower under section 332 of the Act and its 
implementing regulation (42 CFR part 5).
    National Health Service Corps site means the entity to which 
personnel have been assigned under section 333 of the Act and this 
regulation to provide health services in or to health manpower shortage 
area.
    Nonprofit private entity means as entity which may not lawfully hold 
or use any part of its net earnings to the benefit of any private 
shareholder or individual and which does not hold or use its net 
earnings for that purpose.
    Secretary means the Secretary of Health and Human Services and any 
other officer or employee of that Department to whom the authority 
involved has been delegated.