(1) The Mississippi Qualified Health Center Grant Program is established, under the direction and administration of the State Department of Health, for the purpose of making service grants to Mississippi qualified health centers for their use in: (a) Providing care to uninsured or medically indigent patients in Mississippi; or(b) Providing salary supplements to recruit and retain new primary care physicians in areas where there is the most need, as determined by the advisory council, in order to increase health care access to patients in Mississippi.(2) The program shall be established with such state funds as may be appropriated by the Legislature. Laws, 1999, ch. 477, § 4; Laws, 2004, ch. 415, § 2, eff. 7/1/2004.Amended by Laws, 2020, ch. 416, SB 2626,§ 2, eff. 7/1/2020.
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