HHS Allocates $250M to Train New Primary Care Providers

Written by Lindsey Dunn | June 17, 2010

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The Department of Health and Human Services has allocated $250 million of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act funds to expand the primary care workforce, according to a report by AHA News Now.

Here is how the $250 million is broken out:

•    $168 million for training more than 500 new primary care physicians by 2015;
•    $32 million for training more than 600 physician assistants;
•    $30 million to transition more than 600 part-time nursing students to full-time;
•    $15 million to support 10 nurse-managed health clinics in underserved areas; and
•    $5 million to states to help them expand their primary care workforce by 10-25 percent over 10 years.

Read the AHA News Now report on HHS funding for primary care.

Read other Becker's  coverage on the primary care provider shortage.

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