Tenn. Code Ann. § 68-1-2405: Health care and services facility to assist with program.

(a) The commissioner of health shall select the national service organization of the Nurse-Family Partnership program as the health care and services facility with the knowledge and experience necessary to assist the department in selecting entities from among the applications, if any, submitted pursuant to § 68-1-2406 and in monitoring and evaluating the implementation of the program in communities throughout the state.

(b) The health care and services facility shall monitor the administration of the program by the selected entities to ensure that the program is implemented according to the program training requirements, program protocols, program management information systems, and program evaluation requirements established by the department. The health care and services facility shall evaluate the overall implementation of the program and include the evaluation, along with any recommendations concerning the selected entities or changes in the program training requirements, program protocols, program management information systems, or program evaluation requirements, in the annual report submitted to the department pursuant to § 68-1-2408.

(c) The department shall compensate the health care and services facility for the costs incurred in performing its duties under this part. The compensation shall be included in the actual costs incurred by the department in administering the program and paid out of the amount allocated to the department for administrative costs.