(410 ILCS 65/4.1) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 8054.1)
Sec. 4.1.
The Center may make grants under a Community Health Center
Program ("Program") to assist existing community health centers and to
encourage the development of new community health centers in designated
shortage areas. Grants may be made for purposes including, but not limited
to, assistance in the recruitment and retention of medical professionals,
purchase of new equipment, operational expenses, facility construction and
renovation, and outreach programs for medically underserved populations.
The Program shall avoid duplicating resources in areas where primary health
care services are already available. For purposes of this Section,
"community health center" includes: (1) migrant health centers or community
health centers or health care for the homeless programs supported under
Section 329, 330, or 340 of the federal Public Health Service Act,
respectively; and (2) Federally Qualified Health Centers as designated by
the federal Health Care Financing Administration or Illinois Department of
Public Health. For purpose of this Section, "designated shortage area"
means a medically underserved area or health manpower shortage area as
defined by the United States Department of Health and Human Services or as
otherwise designated by the Illinois Department of Public Health.
(Source: P.A. 86-1187.)
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