Additional information submitted for the record by-Continued American Public Health Association, statement of Atwell, Dr. Robert J., director, School of Allied Medical Services, Dobranske, Veronica C., telegram from.. Elliott, Dorothy, telegram from... Health, Education, and Welfare Department: Cost estimates for proposed Moss amendments to H. R. 13196-- proposed legislation, table.. List of allied health professions.. State scholarship-loan programs for medical students, as an Huntting, Inez, telegram from... Page 126 127 129 94 131 130 112 23 24 30 130 Latimer, Ruth M., director, physical therapy educational program, 127 Phillips, Grace, president of the council of physical therapy school 119 Schmidt, Edna, letter from__. 135 Schnebly, Martha, telegram from... 130 Temple University, letter from Millard E. Gladfelter, president........ 134 Willard, Helen, telegram from.......... 130 Zlatolovek, Harriet, telegram from.......... 130 ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONS PERSONNEL TRAINING ACT OF 1966 TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1966 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE, Washington, D.C. The committee met at 10 a.m., pursuant to call, in room 2123, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Harley O. Staggers (chairman) presiding. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order. The hearings today are on H.R. 13196, which I introduced at the request of the administration to carry out recommendations of the President made in his message on domestic health and education. This bill is designed to increase the opportunities for training of medical technologists and personnel in other allied health professions, and to improve the educational quality of the schools training such personnel. The bill also proposes fairly substantial modifications in the student loan programs established under the Health Professions Educational Assistance Act of 1963, as amended, and the Nurse Training Act of 1964. The bill provides for grants for construction of teaching facilities for allied health professions personnel, provides grants to improve the quality of training centers, authorizes traineeships for training of teachers, supervisors, and specialists, and provides grants for projects to develop, demonstrate, or evaluate curriculums for the training of new types of health technologists. The provisions relating to student loans in general would authorize the transfer of the funding of these loans to the private sector. Recent action taken by a subcommittee of the Committee on Education and Labor during its consideration of proposed amendments to the National Defense Education Act raises some questions in my mind as to whether this change would be desirable if a similar change is not made in the National Defense Education Act. I hope that this point will be developed in the hearings. At this point there will be included the text of the bill, H.R. 13196, and agency reports thereon. (The documents referred to follow :) [H.R. 13196, 89th Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To amend the Public Health Service Act to increase the opportunities for training of medical technologists and personnel in other allied health professions, to improve the educational quality of the schools training such allied health professions personnel, and to strengthen and improve the existing student loan programs for medical, osteopathic, dental, podiatry, pharmacy, optometric, and nursing students, and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Allied Health Professions Personnel Training Act of 1966”. 1 |