---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 1616e–1"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "1616e–1"
heading: "Nursing school clinics"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/1616e-1"
units:
  - "Chapter 18 — Indian Health Care"
  - "Subchapter I — Indian Health Professional Personnel"
---

# §1616e–1. Nursing school clinics

- (a) **Grants—** In addition to the authority of the [Secretary](/usc/25/1603.md?p=17) under [section 1616e(a)(1) of this title](/usc/25/1616e.md?p=a-1), the [Secretary](/usc/25/1603.md?p=17), acting through the [Service](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18), is authorized to provide grants to public or private schools of nursing for the purpose of establishing, developing, operating, and administering clinics to address the health care needs of [Indians](/usc/25/1603.md?p=13), and to provide primary health care [services](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18) to [Indians](/usc/25/1603.md?p=13) who reside on or within 50 miles of [Indian](/usc/25/1603.md?p=13) country, as defined in [section 1151 of title 18](/usc/18/1151.md).
- (b) **Purposes—** Grants provided under [subsection (a)](#a) may be used to—
  - (1) establish clinics, to be run and staffed by the faculty and students of a grantee school, to provide primary care [services](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18) in areas in or within 50 miles of [Indian](/usc/25/1603.md?p=13) country (as defined in [section 1151 of title 18](/usc/18/1151.md));
  - (2) provide clinical training, program development, faculty enhancement, and student scholarships in a manner that would benefit such clinics; and
  - (3) carry out any other activities determined appropriate by the [Secretary](/usc/25/1603.md?p=17).
- (c) **Amount and conditions—** The [Secretary](/usc/25/1603.md?p=17) may award grants under this section in such amounts and subject to such conditions as the [Secretary](/usc/25/1603.md?p=17) deems appropriate.
- (d) **Design—** The clinics established under this section shall be designed to provide nursing students with a structured clinical experience that is similar in nature to that provided by residency training programs for physicians.
- (e) **Regulations—** The [Secretary](/usc/25/1603.md?p=17) shall prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this section.
- (f) **Authorization to use amounts—** Out of amounts appropriated to carry out this subchapter for each of the fiscal years 1993 through 2000 not more than $5,000,000 may be used to carry out this section.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–437, title I, § 112A, as added Pub. L. 102–573, title I, § 104(f), Oct. 29, 1992, 106 Stat. 4534.)