H.R. 5411 · 113th Congress
Trafficking Awareness Training for Health Care Act of 2014
- Stage
- In committee
- Sponsor
- Renee Ellmers
- Introduced
- 2014-09-08
- Latest action
- 2014-09-11 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Summary
Trafficking Awareness Training for Health Care Act of 2014 - Requires the Administrator of 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.