2014 New York Laws
PBH - Public Health
Article 9 - (900 - 907) PRIMARY CARE EDUCATION AND TRAINING
905 - Grants for primary care practitioner education.

  905.  Grants  for  primary  care  practitioner  education.  1.  The
  commissioner in collaboration with  the  commissioner  of  education  is
  authorized,  within amounts available pursuant to subdivision nineteen-a
  of section twenty-eight hundred seven-c of this chapter, to make  grants
  to colleges, universities or hospital-based training programs within New
  York   state   to  establish  or  expand  training  programs  for  nurse
  practitioners, physician assistants or midwives,  and  to  increase  the
  opportunities   for   practitioner   education   in   primary   care  at
  community-based sites.
2. Grant funds may be used for administration, faculty recruitment and
  development, start-up costs and costs  incurred  teaching  primary  care
  practitioners  at  community-based sites, including, but not limited to,
  personnel,  administration  and  student  related  expenses  and   other
  expenses judged reasonable and necessary by the commissioner.
3.  Grants  shall  be awarded on a competitive basis in amounts not to
  exceed  two  hundred  fifty  thousand  dollars  through  a  request  for
  application process.  In making awards, the commissioner shall consider:
(a) the need for primary care practitioners in the region in which the
  applicant is located;
(b) the cost-effectiveness of the proposal; and
(c)  the  applicant's  commitment  to  place graduates in primary care
  settings and/or underserved areas.
4. The intent of the  program  is  to  augment  or  increase  training
  programs  for  nurse  practitioners,  physician assistants and midwives.
  Grant funding shall not be used  to  offset  existing  expenditures  the
  institution  or  program  has  obligated or intends to obligate for such
  training programs.