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Trafficking Awareness Training for Health Care Act of 2015
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Committee
Latest Action · January 21, 2015
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Congress
114th (2015–2017)
Introduced
January 21, 2015
Sponsor
Sen. Bill CassidyR
Cosponsors (1)
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Trafficking Awareness Training for Health Care Act of 2015 Requires the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to award one medical or nursing school a grant to develop best practices for health care professionals to recognize and respond appropriately to victims of severe forms of human trafficking. Requires the grantee to: (1) develop methods or materials to train health care professionals on best practices, (2) make a subgrant to one entity in each of the 10 administrative regions of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to create a pilot program to test the best practices and training, and (3) analyze the results of the pilot programs and determine which best practices are evidence-based. Directs HHS to disseminate evidence-based best practices on their website and to health care profession schools.

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