Sentences with phrase «health professional shortage»

Maximum medical assistant awards are $ 25,000 for a service obligation of three years in a federally - designated health professional shortage area.

Program was designed to improve access to care, retain providers who provide healthcare services in underserved communities, and to address health professional shortages that cause disparities in health.

Any other state loan repayment or loan forgiveness program intended to provide for the increased availability of health services in underserved or health professional shortage areas (as determined by such state).

In 1989, the Florida legislature created the Nursing Student Loan Forgiveness Program to encourage nurses to work in Health Professional Shortage Areas in exchange for loan repayment assistance.

The Pennsylvania Primary Care Loan Repayment program offers loan assistance for registered nurses who work full - time in designated Health Professional Shortage areas.

This program offers incentives to physicians to practice in areas that have been designated as Health Professional Shortage Areas.

«(2) For purposes of paragraph (1), the Secretary shall establish criteria for maternity care health professional target areas that identify geographic areas within health professional shortage areas that have a shortage of maternity care health professionals.

With so many Medicare beneficiaries living in mental health professional shortage areas, this legislation is needed more than ever.

Employees in the health care fields may be eligible for state - level forgiveness through the National Health Service Corps State Loan Repayment Program, which is a federally - matched fund that provides states with the money to repay loans for Primary Care Providers (PCPs) in health professional shortage states.

Participants in the Students to Service Loan Repayment Program can earn up to $ 120,000 in the last year at medical school by committing to serve three years at an approved health professional shortage area.

Through the Primary Care Practitioner Loan Redemption Program of New Jersey, certified nurse practitioners who work in specific Health Professional Shortage Areas or underserved areas may be eligible for significant loan repayment assistance.

The Wyoming State Loan Repayment Program offers loan assistance for nurses who work full - time in qualifying Health Professional Shortage Areas.

As stated on the HRSA website, NURSE Corps members must fulfill a service obligation at one of the thousands of eligible nonprofit hospitals, clinics, nursing schools and other facilities located in designated mental health or primary medical care Health Professional Shortage Areas across the U.S.

Must work within the nonprofit sector or another public entity that meets the aforementioned health professional shortage criteria

The Michigan State Loan Repayment Program (MSLRP) assists employers in the recruitment and retention of medical, dental, and mental healthcare providers who continue to demonstrate their commitment to building long - term primary care practices in underserved communities designated as Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs).

Description: The Virginia Bureau of Health Professions offers primary care specialists, including LPCs and LPC - MHs, assistance in repaying qualified medical education loans in exchange for service at a federally designated Health Professional Shortage Area for a minimum of two years full time.

Under the Arizona Loan Repayment Program, qualified health care professionals working in Health Professional Shortage Areas can receive loan assistance to help pay off their student loan debt.

Many Medicare beneficiaries live in mental health professional shortage areas.

Nurse practitioners in Hawaii who work in Health Professional Shortage Areas may be able to receive loan assistance through The Hawaii State Loan Repayment Program.

Offers loan repayment assistance in exchange for a minimum of two years in a Health Professional Shortage Area in Alaska for dentists.

Offers loan repayment assistance in exchange for a minimum of two years in a Health Professional Shortage Area in Alaska for primary care physicians.

«(3) For purposes of this subsection, the Secretary shall collect and publish in the Federal Register data comparing the availability and need of maternity care health services in health professional shortage areas and in areas within such health professional shortage areas.

To amend the Public Health Service Act to distribute maternity care health professionals to health professional shortage areas identified as in need of maternity care health services.

«(A) requiring the identification of a maternity care health professional target area in an area not otherwise already designated as a health professional shortage area; or

A CSF is defined by the HRSA.gov website as «a public or private nonprofit health care facility located in, designated as, or serving a Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) with shortages of primary medical care or mental health professionals».

There are 36 states that offer loan repayment programs for doctors that range from $ 80,000 (Wyoming) to $ 250,000 (Vermont), to $ 525,000 (Massachusetts) to $ 1 million (California and Illinois) for serving in Health Professional Shortage Areas.

Qualifying sites must be in a designated Health Professional Shortage Area.

Nurses who work full - time at a designated Health Professional Shortage Area, or at a nonprofit may be able to receive up to $ 15,000 each year with a three - year commitment.

Through the Oregon Partnership State Loan Repayment (SLRP) program, a variety of healthcare providers, including nurse practitioners and registered nurses, are eligible for repayment assistance by working in a Health Professional Shortage Area.

Through the Colorado Health Service Corps program, nurse practitioners who work in a Health Professional Shortage Area may be eligible for loan assistance.

Under The Kansas State Loan Repayment Program, nurse practitioners can receive up to $ 20,000 in repayment assistance by committing to work in a Health Professional Shortage Area for two years.

Through the Health Professional Loan Repayment Program, health professionals who work in facilities that are located in designated Health Professional Shortage Areas may be eligible for loan assistance.

Candidates who work in designated Health Professional Shortage Areas can receive up to $ 35,000 per year.

Registered nurses who work in a Health Professional Shortage Area or Medically Underserved Area can receive up to $ 8,000.

Nurses who work full - time and commit to working at least two years in a designated Health Professional Shortage Area can receive up to $ 200,000 to pay back their student loans throughout a period of eight years.

Nurse practitioners in Kentucky can take advantage of this program if they work in a Health Professional Shortage Area for two years.

Under the Idaho State Loan Repayment Program, health care practitioners who work in Health Professional Shortage Areas may be eligible for awards that range from $ 5,000 to $ 25,000 each year, for two years.

Under the Rhode Island Health Professional Loan Repayment program, nurse practitioners and registered nurses who work in Health Professional Shortage Areas may qualify for loan assistance.

This program is available to professionals located in a Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA), or have a Facility HSPA and are serving Medicaid and Medicare patients in no less than the same proportion of such patients in the county and have a Site Application on file with the Oregon Office of Rural Health and have received confirmation of site qualification

§ Employed by an eligible site located in a federally designated Health Professional Shortage Area

§ Be employed or contracted by a nonprofit or public entity located in a Health Professional Shortage Area;

Offers loan repayment assistance in exchange for a minimum of two years in a Health Professional Shortage Area in Alaska for primary care physicians.

The service must be performed in a Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) of 14 and above (Tier I).

Clinical pharmacists may be eligible to receive repayment of qualified student loans if practicing in a Health Professional Shortage Area or delivering primary health cares services in a public or nonprofit clinic.

Applicants must be licensed to practice in Massachusetts and commit to practice two years full - time or the equivalent extended commitment part time (e.g. a 20 - hour practice per week will mean a 4 - year contract) providing services in a federally designated Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA).

Offers loan repayment assistance in exchange for a minimum of two years in a Health Professional Shortage Area in Alaska to pharmacists.

The National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Students to Service Loan Repayment Program (S2S LRP) provides up to $ 120,000 to medical students (MD and DO) in their final year of school in return for a commitment to provide primary health care full time for at least 3 years or half time for at least 6 years at an approved NHSC site in a Health Professional Shortage Area of greatest need.

Two - year commitment to practice in medically underserved communities as identified as Health Professional Shortage Areas is required.

As repayment service, recipient must agree to a two - year commitment to practice full - time at an eligible sponsoring organization in a federally designated Health Professional Shortage Area.