Health Services Amendments

Health Services Amendments - Title I: One-Year Extension - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1979: (1) for grants to State health and mental health authorities to assist in providing comprehensive public health services; (2) for the treatment of hypertension; (3) for immunization of children; (4) for the control of diseases borne by rodents; (5) for other disease control programs; (6) for programs for the prevention and control of venereal disease; (7) for project grants and contracts for family planning services; (8) for a program to develop information and educational materials relating to genetic diseases; (9) for a program to develop information and educational materials relating to the sudden infant death syndrome; (10) for the establishment of hemophilia diagnostic and treatment centers; (11) for grants to establish and operate emergency medical services; (12) for grants for the establishment of home health services; and (13) for the prevention of the use of lead-based paints.

Title II: Preventive Health Services - Repeals existing programs of disease control and prevention and control of venereal disease of Title III (General Powers and Duties) of the Public Health Service Act as of October 1, 1979. Establishes a program of preventive health services under such Title.

Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to State health authorities to help meet the costs of preventive health service programs.

Sets forth requirements for information to be included in grant applications. Sets forth guidelines for the size of grants.

Prohibits disclosure of records of any individual who is receiving care under the program, without the consent of such individual.

Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and contracts with State health authorities, health authorities of a political subdivision of a State, and other public and nonprofit private entities for the conduct of programs of education and training, for the administration and operation of preventive health service programs, and for research, demonstrations, and evaluations of such programs.

Defines the term "preventive health service programs" as programs of: (1) immunization against specified diseases which the Secretary determines may be prevented through immunization; (2) prevention and control of venereal diseases; (3) prevention and control of tuberculosis; (4) the screening, detection, and control of hypertension; and (5) the control of rodents, detection, treatment, and elimination of lead-based paint poisoning, and other programs of environmental control service designated by the Secretary.

Title III: Health Incentive Grants - National Health Incentive Grants Act - Directs the Secretary, under the Public Health Service Act, to make grants to State health authorities to assist in meeting the costs of providing comprehensive public health services. Directs that funds received should be used to supplement non-Federal funds for comprehensive public health services and not to supplant such funds.

Provides guidelines by which each State and local public health entity shall compute the amount of such funds it shall receive.

Requires the Secretary to review annually the activities undertaken by each State public health authority to determine if such authority complied with the assurances provided with the application for funds. Authorizes the Secretary to withhold payment from authorities which have failed to meet such assurances.

Provides that the total amount of grants received by a public health authority shall be determined by the Secretary and provides guidelines by which such a determination is to be made.

Title IV: Community and Migrant Health Centers - Provides under the Public Health Service Act that each particular community health center determine: (1) the supplemental health services necessary for the adequate support of primary health services; (2) referral to providers of supplemental health services and payments; and (3) environmental health services for all residents of the area it serves.

Deletes transportation services as required for adequate care and preventive dental services from the definition of primary health services. Includes pharmaceutical services in the definition of primary health services. Deletes pharmaceutical services from the definition of supplemental health services. Includes transportation services as required for adequate care and preventive dental services in the definition of supplemental health services.

Provides guidelines for the Secretary to determine the amount of grants made to public and nonprofit private health centers which serve medically underserved populations.

Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1981 for: (1) grants to public and nonprofit private entities for projects to plan and develop community health centers which will serve medically underserved populations of such centers; and (2) grants to public and nonprofit private entities for projects to plan and develop migrant health centers in high impact areas which service migratory agricultural workers and their families and grants for the costs of operation of such centers.

Title V: Community Mental Health Centers - Community Mental Health Centers Amendments - Sets forth a schedule under which a community mental health center will provide, within three years of its establishment, the full range of mental health services required to be provided by such a center under the Community Mental Health Centers Act. Adds to the list of such services the provision of emergency and outpatient services.

Amends the Public Health Service Act to add to the list of subjects deserving priority consideration in the formulation of national health planning goals: (1) the elimination of inappropriate placement in institutions of persons with mental health problems and the improvement of the quality in institutions providing mental health services; and (2) the assurance of access to community mental health centers and other mental health care providers for needed mental health services, and the emphasis on outpatient care as a preferable alternative to inpatient mental health services.

Requires the health systems plan of each health systems agency established under the Public Health Service Act to include goals for the delivery of mental health services. States that such goals shall be developed with the assistance of persons knowledgeable and experienced in the delivery of such services.

Requires State Health Coordinating Councils, in advising State health planning and development agencies, to use the assistance of persons knowledgeable and experienced in the delivery of mental health services.

Requires that State plans under the Comprehensive Mental Abuse and Alcoholism Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act of 1970 and the Drug Abuse and Treatment Act of 1972 be consistent with the State health plans in effect under the Public Health Service Act as amended by this Title.

Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1981 for grants to public and nonprofit entities which: (1) plan Community Mental Health Center programs; (2) provide mental health services; (3) provide education and consultation services in the field of mental health care; and (4) provide mental health services and are in financial distress.

Authorizes appropriations through 1981 for the National Center for the Prevention and Control of Rape.

Requires a State mental health authority to establish minimum standards for the maintenance and operation of community mental health centers which receive financial assistance under this title and provide for the enforcement of such standards and to insure that the assistance provided is in furtherance of the mental health component of the State health plan in effect for the State developed by the State health coordinating councils under the Public Health Service Act.

Sets forth requirements which States must meet to obtain grants for State mental health services under Title XI (National Health Planning and Development) of the Public Health Service Act.

Sets forth measures for the administration of grants to the States for mental health services under such Title.