Bill > S4276

This bill, the Accelerating Access to Dementia and Alzheimer's Provider Training Act (AADAPT Act), aims to reauthorize and expand the Project ECHO Grant Program. The key provisions of the bill include: 1. Reauthorizing the Project ECHO Grant Program, which provides grants to eligible entities (such as healthcare providers in rural, frontier, or underserved areas) to support technology-enabled collaborative learning and capacity-building models. 2. Establishing new grants under the Project ECHO program specifically for eligible entities to evaluate, develop, and expand the use of these models to improve retention of healthcare providers and increase access to early and accurate diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, as well as quality dementia care. 3. Defining "eligible health care professionals" as those who provide primary care services in rural, frontier, or underserved areas, or to medically underserved populations or Native Americans. 4. Requiring grant recipients under the new Alzheimer's-focused grants to submit reports on the effects of the models on patient outcomes and healthcare providers to the Advisory Council on Alzheimer's Research, Care, and Services. 5. Authorizing $10 million per year from 2022 to 2031 for the Project ECHO Grant Program, and an additional $1 million per year from 2022 to 2031 for the new Alzheimer's-focused grants.