{"data":{"id":"us/42-cfr-23.8","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"42 CFR 23.8","heading":"What operational requirements apply to an entity to which National Health Service Corps personnel are assigned?","body":"Each National Health Service Corps site must:\n(a) Operate a health care delivery system within a planned or existing community structure to assure:\n(1) The provision of high quality comprehensive health care;\n(2) To the extent feasible, full professional health care coverage for the health manpower shortage area;\n(3) Continuum of care; and\n(4) The availability and accessibility of secondary and tertiary health care (the two more sophisticated levels of health care beyond primary care);\n(b) Establish and maintain a patient record system;\n(c) Implement a system for maintaining the confidentiality of patient records;\n(d) Meet the requirements of applicable fire and safety codes;\n(e) Develop, to the extent feasible, linkages with other health care facilities for the provision of services which supplement or complement the services furnished by the assigned Corps personnel;\n(f) Operate a quality assurance system which meets the requirements of 42 CFR 51c.303(c) for the establishment and operation of a quality assurance system in a community health center; and\n(g) Establish basic data, cost accounting, and management information and reporting systems as prescribed by the Secretary.","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":"43f13c3b4d26a3f8bc8c3515b198c0316603195198c95989a1822e8cdce7c920","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/42-cfr-23.7","next":"us/42-cfr-23.9"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}