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This bill, the Future Advancement of Academic Nursing Act (FAAN Act), aims to amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants to support schools of nursing. The key provisions of the bill include: 1. Providing grants to schools of nursing to increase the number of faculty and students, enhance nursing education programs, and modernize nursing education infrastructure, with a focus on underserved and medically underserved areas. 2. Prioritizing grant funding for schools of nursing located in medically underserved communities, health professional shortage areas, or at institutions of higher education designated as minority-serving. 3. Allowing grant funds to be used for activities such as student enrollment and retention, curriculum development, faculty hiring and retention, and infrastructure upgrades like equipment, simulation resources, and telehealth technologies. 4. Requiring grant recipients to submit annual reports to the Secretary of Health and Human Services and a report to Congress within 5 years summarizing the activities and outcomes associated with the grants. 5. Authorizing $1 billion in appropriations to carry out the grant program. The overall goal of the bill is to enhance the preparedness and ability of the United States to address public health emergencies and pandemics by increasing the capacity and modernizing the education of the nursing workforce.

Health and Social Services

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