A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide assistance for research and development for improvement in delivery of health services to the critically ill.

Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to nonprofit private entities and to enter into contracts with private entities: (1) for specified research and development projects designed to improve systems and delivery of health care for persons who are critically ill; (2) to support biomedical engineering projects for testing new instrumentation and systems for delivery of critical health care; and (3) for the establishment and initial operation of not more than ten critical care facilities for the delivery of health care to critically ill patients, which facilities would be used for clinical testing of new instrumentation and health care delivery systems and to train personnel in the use of such instrumentation and systems.

Specifies conditions for such grants.

Authorizes to be appropriated $20,000,000 to carry out the purposes of this Act.