Section 92725 Of Chapter 9. Community-based Health Professions Education Partnership Program From California Education Code >> Division 9. >> Title 3. >> Part 57. >> Chapter 9.
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. (a) The program shall be considered successful if, after
implementation of the program, all of the following occur:
(1) There is a 10 percent or greater increase in the rate of
program graduates who choose to practice primary care over the
average number of program graduates who chose to practice primary
care during the previous five years.
(2) There is a decrease in the use of emergency room facilities
for nonemergency procedures by persons served by the program from the
use of emergency room facilities for nonemergency procedures during
the previous five years.
(3) Families served by the program have received expanded health
services without an increase in per capita health costs.
(b) Based on the evaluation of the program by the university
pursuant to Section 92724, the Office of Statewide Health Planning
and Development, in consultation with the California Healthcare
Workforce Policy Commission, shall recommend to the Legislature on or
before January 1, 1998, whether funding for the program should be
expanded to include other medical schools.
(c) If the recommendation is made to expand the program pursuant
to subdivision (b), it is the intent of the Legislature that the
program be expanded to allow private medical schools and private
schools of nursing to participate in the program in order to permit
substantially all students who are training to become physicians and
surgeons, nurse practitioners, or physician assistants to receive a
portion of their training in a community-based education program.