§2195.2. Grants and funding; Community-Based and Rural Health Care Fund

A. Subject to the availability of funding, the Louisiana Department of Health is authorized to provide:

(1) Grants to rural hospitals in amounts not to exceed seventy-five thousand dollars per year in order to increase access to emergency health services to indigent and low-income citizens in rural areas.

(2) Start-up funding in amounts not to exceed one hundred fifty thousand dollars for the purpose of providing initial start-up costs for establishment of primary care health clinics designed to serve indigent and low-income citizens.

(3) Matching funds in amounts not to exceed fifty thousand dollars per year to local communities or parishes to encourage physicians to establish their practices in local communities and rural areas by providing minimum salary guarantees.

(4) Matching funds for demonstration projects, including but not limited to establishment or acquisition of mobile health clinics, to organizations providing healthcare services to indigent and low-income citizens living in local communities and rural areas; however, such projects shall be required to secure other local or federal funding.

(5) Matching funds for federal grants designed to provide health services to indigent or low-income citizens in local communities and rural areas.

B. Repealed by Acts 2001, No. 1185, §8, eff. July 1, 2001.

Acts 1991, No. 394, §1; Acts 1992, No. 810, §1; Acts 2001, No. 1185, §8, eff. July 1, 2001; Acts 2018, No. 206, §4.