[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 42, Volume 1]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

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.