[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: 42CFR5.2]



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                         TITLE 42--PUBLIC HEALTH

 

    CHAPTER I--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 

                                SERVICES

 

PART 5_DESIGNATION OF HEALTH PROFESSIONAL(S) SHORTAGE AREAS--Table of 

Contents

 

Sec.  5.2  Definitions.



    Act means the Public Health Service Act, as amended.

    Health professional(s) shortage area means any of the following 

which the Secretary determines has a shortage of health professional(s): 

(1) An urban or rural area (which need not conform to the geographic 

boundaries of a political subdivision and which is a rational area for 

the delivery of health services); (2) a population group; or (3) a 

public or nonprofit private medical facility.

    Health service area means a health service area whose boundaries 

have been designated by the Secretary, under section 1511 of the Act, 

for purposes of health planning activities.

    Health systems agency or HSA means the health systems agency 

designated, under section 1515 of the Act, to carry out health planning 

activities for a specific health service area.

    Medical facility means a facility for the delivery of health 

services and includes: (1) A community health center, public health 

center, outpatient medical facility, or community mental health center; 

(2) a hospital, State mental hospital, facility for long-term



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care, or rehabilitation facility; (3) a migrant health center or an 

Indian Health service facility; (4) a facility for delivery of health 

services to inmates in a U.S. penal or correctional institution (under 

section 323 of the Act) or a State correctional institution; (5) a 

Public Health Service medical facility (used in connection with the 

delivery of health services under section 320, 321, 322, 324, 325, or 

326 of the Act); or (6) any other Federal medical facility.

    Metropolitan area means an area which has been designated by the 

Office of Management and Budget as a standard metropolitan statistical 

area (SMSA). All other areas are ``non-metropolitan areas.''

    Poverty level means the povery level as defined by the Bureau of the 

Census, using the poverty index adopted by a Federal Interagency 

Committee in 1969, and updated each year to reflect changes in the 

Consumer Price Index.

    Secretary means the Secretary of Health and Human Services and any 

other officer or employee of the Department to whom the authority 

involved has been delegated.

    State includes, in addition to the several States, the District of 

Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, 

the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Trust Territory of the 

Pacific Islands.

    State health planning and development agency or SHPDA means a State 

health planning and development agency designated under section 1521 of 

the Act.