§ 57.1802 - Definitions.

Act means the Public Health Service Act, as amended.

Allied health professions means professions which support, complement, or supplement the professional functions of physicians, dentists, and other health professionals in the delivery of health care to patients, or assist environmental engineers and other personnel in environmental health control and preventive medicine activities.

Community-based program means a program whose organizational headquarters is located in and which primarily serves: A Metropolitan Statistical Area, as designated by the Office of Management and Budget; a Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce designated nonmetropolitan economic area; a county; or Indian tribe(s) as defined in 42 CFR 36.102(c), i.e., an Indian tribe, band, nation, rancheria, Pueblo, colony or community, including an Alaska Native Village or regional or village corporation.

Health professions means the professions of medicine, dentistry, osteopathic medicine, pharmacy, optometry, podiatric medicine, veterinary medicine, public health, chiropractic, health administration, and clinical psychology.

Health professions schools means schools of medicine, dentistry, osteopathic medicine, pharmacy, optometry, podiatric medicine, veterinary medicine, public health, chiropractic, graduate programs in health administration, or graduate programs in clinical psychology, as defined in section 799(1)(A), (B), (C), and (D) of the Act and as accredited in section 799(1)(E) of the Act.

National of the United States (as defined in 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(22), the Immigration and Nationality Act) means a citizen of the United States or a person who, though not a citizen of the United States, owes permanent allegiance to the United States.

Nonprofit refers to the status of an entity which is a corporation or association, or is owned and operated by one or more corporations or associations no part of the net earnings of which inures, or may lawfully inure, to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual.

School of allied health means a public or private nonprofit college, junior college, university or hospital-based educational entity which provides or is accredited to provide a degree program in an allied health discipline and which meets all the criteria in section 799(4) of the Act.

Secretary means the Secretary of Health and Human Services and any other officer or employee of the Department of Health and Human Services to whom the authority involved has been delegated.

State means, in addition to the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Republic of Palau, the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia.