[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: 42CFR23.6]

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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. 23.6  What are the criteria for determining the entities to which National Health Service Corps personnel will be assigned?

    (a) The Secretary may, upon approving an application for the 
assignment of personnel and after entering into an

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agreement with an applicant under Sec. 23.7, assign National Health 
Service Corps personnel to provide health services in or to a health 
manpower shortage area.
    (b) In assigning National Health Service Corps personnel to serve in 
a health manpower shortage area, the Secretary will seek to assign 
personnel who have those characteristics which will increase the 
probability of their remaining to serve in the health manpower shortage 
area upon completion of the period of assignment. In addition, the 
Secretary will apply a weighted-value system in which the first factor 
listed below is assigned the greatest weight and the second, and third 
factors are assigned lesser weights in descending order:
    (1) The need of the health manpower shortage area as determined by 
criteria established under section 332(b) of the Act.
    (2) The willingness of individuals, government agencies, or health 
entities within the health manpower shortage area to cooperate with the 
National Health Service Corps in providing effective health services.
    (3) The comments of health professional societies serving the health 
manpower shortage area.

[45 FR 12790, Feb. 27, 1980, as amended at 51 FR 31948, Sept. 8, 1986]