135.80 - MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL SHORTAGE AREA PROGRAM.
135.80 MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL SHORTAGE AREA
PROGRAM.
1. For the purposes of this section, "mental health
professional shortage areas" means geographic areas in this state
that have been designated by the United States department of health
and human services, health resources and services administration,
bureau of health professionals, as having a shortage of mental health
professionals.
2. The department shall establish and administer a mental health
professional shortage area program in accordance with this section.
Implementation of the program shall be limited to the extent of the
funding appropriated or otherwise made available for the program.
3. The program shall provide stipends to support psychiatrist
positions with an emphasis on securing and retaining medical
directors at community mental health centers, providers of mental
health services to county residents pursuant to a waiver approved
under section 225C.7, subsection 3, and hospital psychiatric units
that are located in mental health professional shortage areas.
4. The department shall apply the rules in determining the number
and amounts of stipends within the amount of funding available for
the program for a fiscal year.
5. For each fiscal year in which funding is allocated by the
program, the department shall report to the governor and general
assembly summarizing the program's activities and the impact made to
address the shortage of mental health professionals. Section History: Recent Form
2007 Acts, ch 218, §102
Referred to in § 135.177 Footnotes
Allocation of funds; 2007 Acts, ch 218, §97; 2008 Acts, ch 1187,
§62; 2009 Acts, ch 182, §60