Health Center Community Transformation Hub Act

Health Center Community Transformation Hub Act

This bill permits the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to award supplemental funds to certain health centers that care for medically underserved populations for addressing primary social determinants of health (i.e., nonmedical factors that influence health outcomes, such as transportation, food security, and economic security).

To receive the supplemental funding, health centers must be recipients of other HRSA grants that support health center operations and activities. Health centers must use the supplemental funds to implement a community-based network of organizations capable of addressing the social determinants of health. Additionally, HRSA and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services must issue guidance on sustaining these networks after the supplemental funding terminates.

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1072 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1072

To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize supplemental awards 
     to health centers to establish community transformation hubs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 17, 2023

   Ms. Clarke of New York (for herself, Mr. Carter of Louisiana, Mr. 
  Bowman, Ms. Barragan, Ms. Norton, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Ms. Moore of 
 Wisconsin, and Ms. Lee of California) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize supplemental awards 
     to health centers to establish community transformation hubs.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Health Center Community 
Transformation Hub Act''.

SEC. 2. SUPPLEMENTAL AWARDS TO SUPPORT COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION HUBS.

    Section 330 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254b) is 
amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (r) as subsection (s); and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (q) the following:
    ``(r) Supplemental Awards To Support Community Transformation.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Secretary may award to a health 
        center receiving a grant under another provision of this 
        section, as a supplement to such grant, funds to implement a 
        community transformation hub to address the social determinants 
        of health faced by patients served by the health center.
            ``(2) Community transformation hub defined.--In this 
        subsection, the term `community transformation hub' means a 
        network of community-based organizations capable of addressing 
        primary social determinants of health, including--
                    ``(A) access to transportation;
                    ``(B) food security;
                    ``(C) economic security;
                    ``(D) education access and quality;
                    ``(E) neighborhood safety;
                    ``(F) systemic racism; and
                    ``(G) health of the built environment.
            ``(3) Consideration.--In making supplemental awards under 
        this subsection, the Secretary shall consider--
                    ``(A) whether the health center involved has 
                conducted an assessment of the social determinants of 
                health facing the health center's patient population; 
                and
                    ``(B) whether the proposed community transformation 
                hub would sufficiently address these determinants.
            ``(4) Partnerships.--The Secretary may allow health centers 
        receiving a supplemental award under this subsection to carry 
        out the activities supported through the award in partnership 
        with community-based organizations through a contract, a 
        subgrant, or a memorandum of understanding.
            ``(5) Technical assistance.--The Secretary may provide 
        technical assistance to award recipients under this subsection 
        with respect to planning, development, and operation of 
        community transformation hubs supported under this subsection.
            ``(6) Coordination.--Not later than 1 year after the date 
        of enactment of this subsection, the Secretary, acting through 
        the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services 
        Administration and the Administrator of the Centers for 
        Medicare & Medicaid Services, shall issue guidance on 
        sustaining community transformation hubs funded under this 
        section after such funding terminates.''.
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