| National Health Service Corps
Programs |
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| NHSC Programs for Students |
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| NHSC Scholars |
| The NHSC offers a competitive scholarship program designed for students committed to providing primary health care in communities of greatest need. Scholarship recipients serve where they are most needed upon completion of their training. The program offers the following benefits for up to 4 years of education: |
- Payment of tuition and fees
- Twelve monthly stipend payments per year of scholarship
- Payment of other reasonable educational expenses, such as books, supplies and equipment
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| National Nurse Service Corps |
| A new federal program, the National Nurse Service Corps, has recently been
authorized. When funded, it will provide scholarships for students in
baccalaureate-degree nursing programs in return for a service obligation of
at least two years at a health care facility with a critical shortage of
nurses. |
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NHSC Loan Repayment Programs (NHSC-LRP) |
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| The NHSC also offers loan repayment programs for health professionals who will practice in a designated rural or urban health professions shortage area (HPSA). An NHSC loan can provide up to $50,000 for a two-year obligation. In addition to loan repayment, these clinicians receive a competitive salary, some tax relief benefits, and a chance to have a significant impact on a community. |
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| Visit the National Health Service Corps website at http://nhsc.bhpr.hrsa.gov/ |
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| NHSC Programs for Communities |
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| The NHSC helps communities to recruit and retain health professionals committed
to serving in the communities that need them the most by placing NHSC scholars
and loan-repayers in qualifying communities. The NHSC helps communities recruit primary care physicians (family
practice, internal medicine, and pediatrics) as well as physicians trained in
obstetrics and gynecology and general psychiatry, primary care nurse
practitioners and physician assistants, certified nurse midwives, dentists,
dental hygienists and mental or behavioral health professionals. In order to be
eligible for NHSC assistance, sites must be located in a designated health
professions shortage area (HPSA), serve high-need urban or rural populations,
accept Medicaid/Medicare assignment, maintain a discounted fee schedule assuring
no financial barrier to care for those at or below 200 percent of the federally
designated poverty level, function as a part of a system of care assuring access
to the full continuum of services and maintain full-time practice hours. |
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| The Wisconsin Office of Rural Health can help communities seeking to qualify for
NHSC Programs and NHSC scholars and loan-repayers seeking placement. Contact
the WORH at (608) 265-3608. |
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| The Wisconsin Primary Care Office (PCO) in the Division of Public Health also
helps with the application process and forwards recommendations on shortage area
designations to the federal agency responsible for shortage designations. For
additional information contact the Division of Public Health, Primary Care
Section at (608) 264-6528. |
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