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Version 00 · Introduced in Senate · Nov 7, 1997
Alaskan Community Health Aide Program Expansion Act of 1997 - Amends part A (General Provisions) of title XI of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish an Alaskan Community Health Aide Program to: (1) provide for the training of Alaskans as community health aides or community health practitioners; (2) use such aides or practitioners in the provision of health care, health promotion, and disease prevention services to Alaskans living in communities that do not qualify for the Community Health Aide Program for Alaska operated through the Indian Health Service; (3) provide for establishment of teleconferencing capacity in health clinics located in or near such communities for use by such aides and practitioners; (4) provide a high standard of training to such aides and practitioners to ensure that they provide quality health care, health promotion, and disease prevention services to the Alaskan communities served by the Program; (5) develop a curriculum for the training of such aides and practitioners; (6) establish a Community Health Aide Certification Board to certify trained or otherwise qualified individuals as community health aides or community health practitioners; (7) develop a system which identifies and creates programs to meet the needs of such aides and practitioners for continuing health care education; (8) develop a system that provides close supervision of such aides and practitioners; and (9) develop a system under which the work of such aides and practitioners is reviewed and evaluated to ensure the provision of quality health care, health promotion, and disease prevention services.
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Sen. Murkowski, Frank H. [R-AK] · R–AK
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11977-11978)
Introduced in Senate
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