Amendment #561 to H3400

Funding for Resident Training at Community Health Centers

[Sponsors] Representatives Collins of Boston, Forry of Boston, O'Day of West Boylston, Mahoney of Worcester, Coppinger of Boston, and Canavan of Brockton move to amend the bill in Section 2, in line item 4000-0500 by adding after the words “expressly stated herein” the following:  

“provided further, teaching community health centers with a residency program in primary care or family medicine shall receive a special grant of at least $500,000 for each of the commonwealth’s four qualified teaching health centers.  Such centers shall maintain their teaching accreditation as either an independent teaching community health center or as a teaching community health center accredited through affiliation with a commonwealth funded medical school or licensed as part of a teaching hospital. This payment will be financed with funding allocated and approved in the March 1, 2010 amendment to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ section 1115 Demonstration waiver, if necessary to achieve maximum federal financial participation.   Said payments to eligible teaching community health centers shall be made on or before April 15, 2011.”