42 U.S.C. 701-731; 29 U.S.C. 45b. 42 U.S.C. 248 (3) Each applicant for a grant under this section for use in connection with an intensive community vaccination program shall, at the time it files its application for such grant with the Surgeon General, provide the Surgeon General with assurances satisfactory to him that it will, if it receives such grant, furnish such other services and materials as may be necessary to carry out such program. (d) The Surgeon General, at the request of a State or other public agency, may reduce the grant to such agency under this section by the amount of the pay, allowances, traveling expenses, and any other costs in connection with the detail of an officer or employee of the Public Health Service to such agency when such detail is made for the convenience of and at the request of such agency and for the purpose of carrying out a function for which a grant is made under this section. The amount by which such grant is so reduced shall be available for payment of such costs by the Surgeon General, but shall, for purposes of subsection (c), be deemed to have been paid to such agency. (e) Nothing in this section shall limit or otherwise restrict the use of funds which are granted to a State or to a political subdivision of a State under title V of the Social Security Act, other provisions of this Act, or other Federal law and which are available for the purchase of vaccine or for organizing, promoting, conducting, or participating in immunization programs, from being used for such purposes in connection with programs assisted through grants under this section. PART C-HOSPITALS, MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS, AND HOSPITALS SEC, 321. The Surgeon General, pursuant to regulations, shall (a) Control, manage, and operate all institutions, hospitals, and stations of the Service, including minor repairs and maintenance, and provide for the care, treatment, and hospitalization of patients, including the furnishing of prosthetic and orthopedic devices, and tobacco; and from time to time, with the approval of the President, select suitable sites for and establish such additional institutions, hospitals, and stations in the States and possessions of the United States as in his judgment are necessary to enable the Service to discharge its functions and duties; "? (b) Provide for the transfer of Public Health Service patients, in the care of attendants where necessary, be 77 Subsec. (a) was amended by sec. 2(a) of P.L. 781, 80th Congress. tween hospitals and stations operated by the Service or between such hospitals and stations and other hospitals and stations in which Public Health Service patients may be received, and the payment of expenses of such transfer: (c) Provide for the disposal of articles produced by patients in the course of their curative treatment, either by allowing the patient to retain such articles or by selling them and depositing the money received therefor to the credit of the appropriation from which the materials for making the articles were purchased; 78 (d) Provide for the disposal of money and effects, in the custody of the hospitals or stations, of deceased patients; and 79 (e) Provide, to the extent the Surgeon General determines that other public or private funds are not available therefor, for the payment of expenses of preparing and transporting the remains of, or the payment of reasonable burial expenses for, any patient dying in a hospital or station.80 CARE AND TREATMENT OF SEAMEN AND CERTAIN OTHER SEC. 322. (a) The following persons shall be entitled, in accordance with regulations, to medical, surgical, and dental treatment and hospitalization without charge at hospitals and other stations of the Service: (1) Seamen employed on vessels of the United States registered, enrolled, and licensed under the maritime laws thereof, other than canal boats engaged in the coasting trade; (2) Seamen employed on United States or foreign flag vessels as employees of the United States through the War Shipping Administration; (3) Seamen, not enlisted or commissioned in the military or naval establishments, who are employed on State school ships or on vessels of the United States Government of more than five tons' burden; (4) Cadets at State maritime academies or on State training ships; (5) Seamen on vessels of the Mississippi River Commission and, upon application of their commanding officers, officers and crews of vessels of the Fish and Wildlife Service; (6) Enrollees in the United States Maritime Service on active duty and members of the Merchant Marine Cadet Corps'; and 78 Subsec. (c) was amended, by striking out the word "and" at the end of the subsection, by sec. 2 (b) of P.L. 781, 80th Congress. 79 Subsec. (d) was amended, by striking out the period at the end of the subsection and inserting in lieu thereof "; and", by sec. 2(b) of P.L. 781, 80th Congress. 80 Subsec. (e) was added by sec. 2(b) of P.L. 781, 80th Congress. 42 U.S.C. 249 42 U.S.C. 250 42 U.S.C. 251 (7) Employees and noncommissioned officers in the field service of the Public Health Service when injured or taken sick in line of duty. (b) When suitable accommodations are available, seamen on foreign-flag vessels may be given medical, surgical, and dental treatment and hospitalization on application of the master, owner, or agent of the vessel at hospitals and other stations of the Service at rates fixed by regulations. All expenses connected with such treatment, including burial in the event of death, shall be paid by such master, owner, or agent. No such vessel shall be granted clearance until such expenses are paid or their payment appropriately guaranteed to the Collector of Customs. (c) Any person when detained in accordance with quarantine laws, or, at the request of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, any person detained by that Service, may be treated and cared for by the Public Health Service. (d) Persons not entitled to treatment and care at institutions, hospitals, and stations of the Service may, in accordance with regulations of the Surgeon General, be admitted thereto for temporary treatment and care in case of emergency. (e) Persons entitled to care and treatment under subsection (a) of this section and persons whose care and treatment is authorized by subsection (c) may, in accordance with regulations, receive such care and treatment at the expense of the Service from public or private medical or hospital facilities other than those of the Service, when authorized by the officer in charge of the station at which the application is made.81 CARE AND TREATMENT OF FEDERAL PRISONERS SEC. 323. The Service shall supervise and furnish medical treatment and other necessary medical, psychiatric, and related technical and scientific services, authorized by the Act of May 13, 1930, as amended (U.S.C., 1940 edition, title 18, secs. 751, 752), in penal and correctional institutions of the United States. EXAMINATION AND TREATMENT OF FEDERAL EMPLOYEES SEC. 324. The Surgeon General is authorized to provide at institutions, hospitals, and stations of the Service medical, surgical, and hospital services and supplies for persons entitled to treatment under the United States Employees' Compensation Act and extensions thereof The Surgeon General may also provide for making medical examinations of— 81 Subsec. (e) was amended by sec. 3 of P.L. 781, 80th Congress. (a) employees of the Alaska Railroad and employees of the Federal Government for retirement purposes; (b) employees in Federal classified service, and applicants for appointment, as requested by the Civil Service Commission for the purpose of promoting health and efficiency; (c) seamen for purposes of qualifying for certificates of service; and (d) employees eligible for benefits under the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act, as amended (U.S.C., 1940 edition, title 33, chapter 18), as requested by any deputy commissioner thereunder. EXAMINATION OF ALIENS SEC. 325. The Surgeon General shall provide for making, at places within the United States or in other countries, such physical and mental examinations of aliens as are required by the immigration laws, subject to administrative regulations prescribed by the Attorney General and medical regulations prescribed by the Surgeon General with the approval of the Secretary. 42 U.S.C. 252 SERVICES TO COAST GUARD, COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY, 42 U.S.C. 253 AND PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE SEC. 326.82 (a) Subject to regulations of the President (1) commissioned officers, chief warrant officers, warrant officers, cadets, and enlisted personnel of the Regular Coast Guard on active duty, including those on shore duty and those on detached duty; and Regular and temporary members of the United States Coast Guard Reserve when on active duty; (2) 82 commissioned officers, ships' officers, and members of the crews of vessels of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey on active duty including those on shore duty and those on detached duty; and (3) commissioned officers of the Regular or Reserve Corps of the Public Health Service on active duty; shall be entitled to medical, surgical, and dental treatment and hospitalization by the Service. The Surgeon General may detail commissioned officers for duty aboard vessels of the Coast Guard or the Coast and Geodetic Survey. 82 82 Pars. (1) and (2) were amended and par. (3) was added by sec. 5(d) of P.L. 86-415. 42 U.S.C. 254 42 U.S.C. 255 (b) 83 Subject to regulations of the President, the dependent members of families (as defined in such regulations) of persons specified in subsection (a), other than temporary members of the United States Coast Guard Reserve, shall be furnished medical advice and outpatient treatment by the Service at its hospitals and relief stations, and they shall also be furnished hospitalization at hospitals of the Service, if suitable accommodations are available, at a per diem cost to the officer, enlisted person, or member of a crew concerned. Such cost shall be at such uniform rate as may be prescribed from time to time by the President for the hospitalization of dependents of naval and Marine Corps personnel at any naval hospital, pursuant to section 2 of the Act of May 10, 1943 (57 Stat. 80). (c) The Service shall provide all services referred to in subsection (a) required by the Coast Guard and shall perform all duties prescribed by statute in connection with the examinations to determine physical or mental condition for purposes of appointment, enlistment, and reenlistment, promotion and retirement, and officers of the Service assigned to duty on Coast Guard vessels may extend aid to the crews of American vessels engaged in deep-sea fishing. INTERDEPARTMENTAL WORK SEC. 327. Nothing contained in this part shall affect the authority of the Service to furnish any materials, supplies, or equipment, or perform any work or services, requested in accordance with section 7 of the Act of May 21, 1920, as amended (U.S.C., 1940 edition, title 31, sec. 686), or the authority of any other executive department to furnish any materials, supplies, or equipment, or perform any work or services, requested by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare for the Service in accordance with that section. PART D-LEPERS RECEIPT OF LEPERS SEC. 331. The Service shall, in accordance with regulations, receive into any hospital of the Service suitable for his accommodation any person afflicted with leprosy who presents himself for care, detention, or treatment, or who may be apprehended under sections 332 or 361 of this Act, and any person afflicted with leprosy duly consigned to the care of the Service by the proper health S3 Sec. 306 of the Dependents' Medical Care Act (P.L. 569, 84th Cong.) provides in part that, effective December 7, 1956, "The following laws and parts of laws are hereby repealed. * **(3) Section 326(b) of the PHS Act, except as it relates to dependent members of families of ships' officers and members of crews of vessels of the Coast and Geodetic Survey; |