Community facilities direct and guaranteed loans for health care services

Section 306(a) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1926(a)) (as amended by section 6210) is amended by adding at the end the following: (29) Health care services Notwithstanding subparagraphs (A) and (C) of section 343(a)(13), and regardless of whether the facility is in a rural area, the Secretary may make a community facility direct or guaranteed loan under paragraph (1) for a project to provide health care services if not less than 50 percent of the encounters with individuals to whom the health care services are provided are encounters with individuals who inhabit an area with a frontier and remote area code of level 3 or level 4, as defined by the most recent Frontier and Remote Area Codes as updated by the Economic Research Service..