{"data":{"id":"us/42-cfr-23.2","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"42 CFR 23.2","heading":"Definitions.","body":"As used in this subpart:\nAct means the Public Health Service Act, as amended.\nAssigned National Health Service Corps personnel or Corps personnel means health personnel of the Regular and Reserve Corps of the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and civilian personnel as designated by the Secretary including, but not limited to, physicians, dentists, nurses, and other health professions personnel who are assigned under section 333 of the Act and this regulation.\nHealth manpower shortage area means the geographic area, the population group, the public or nonprofit private medical facility or any other public facility which has been determined by the Secretary to have a shortage of health manpower under section 332 of the Act and its implementing regulation (42 CFR part 5).\nNational Health Service Corps site means the entity to which personnel have been assigned under section 333 of the Act and this regulation to provide health services in or to health manpower shortage area.\nNonprofit private entity means as entity which may not lawfully hold or use any part of its net earnings to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual and which does not hold or use its net earnings for that purpose.\nSecretary means the Secretary of Health and Human Services and any other officer or employee of that Department to whom the authority involved has been delegated.","path":["Title 42—Public Health","CHAPTER I—PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES","SUBCHAPTER B—PERSONNEL","PART 23—NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CORPS","Subpart A—Assignment of National Health Service Corps Personnel"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-42.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:26:11Z","sha256":"a4bac95e499f5359ffce66f86adbc39ba267529ba6508ca4884b859df4f719c5","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/42-cfr-23.1","next":"us/42-cfr-23.3"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}