National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Provides scholarships and loan - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

National Health Service Corps (NHSC)

Provides scholarships and loan repayment to primary care clinicians and students in exchange for service in underserved communities.

• Builds healthy communities by

supporting qualified health care providers dedicated to working in areas of the U.S. with limited access to care.

• Helps remove financial barriers for

primary care clinicians, enabling them to provide care in high-need areas.

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NHSC Field Strength

• Over 50,000 health professionals have served since the

NHSC’s inception in 1972.

• More than 10,400 NHSC primary care medical, dental, nursing, and

mental and behavioral health practitioners currently serve at over 5,200 NHSC-approved sites.

• Provide care to more than 11 million people nationwide.

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NHSC Jobs Center

Where Health Care Professionals Connect with Sites!

View nearly 16,000 NHSC-approved sites with

• ver 4,000 job vacancies.

Search jobs by:

• Field of Practice
• Discipline
• Specialty
• HPSA Score
• Site Name
• City, state, or Zip Code
• Sites with Open Positions

BHW is making the Jobs Center easier for health care providers to connect with sites.

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NHSC Jobs Center

Recruit Qualified Clinicians

Free online recruitment resource where all NHSC- approved sites can post medical, dental, and mental and behavioral health job vacancies.

Create a site profile highlighting:

• Open Positions
• Site Characteristics
• Affiliated Sites
• Map & Community

(photos, brochures)

• Points of Contact
• Relevant Links,

web sites

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NURSE Corps

• Helps alleviate the

critical shortage of nurses in high need areas across the U.S. and its territories.

• Currently, over 2,000

nurses are providing critical care to those who need it most.

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NURSE Corps

Offers loan repayment and scholarships to nurses who work in health centers, rural health clinics, hospitals, and

• ther facilities experiencing a critical shortage of nurses.

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Rural Health Snapshot

BHW supports and encourages partnerships between underserved clinical practice sites and academic institutions. And many BHW funding opportunities include preferences for applicants serving or supporting rural communities:

• Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program
• Primary Care Training & Enhancement Program
• Advanced Nursing Education Program
• Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention

Program

• Interprofessional Collaborative Practice
• BSN Practicum in Community Settings
• Teaching Health Centers Program

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Rural Health Snapshot

The National Health Service Corps (NHSC) and NURSE Corps increase the number of health professionals practicing in rural health clinics, critical access hospitals and other health facilities located in rural areas. National Health Service Corps

• About 1 in 4 NHSC clinicians serve

in rural areas

• 13 states have a majority of their

NHSC clinicians serving at rural sites

• Almost half of approved NHSC

Sites are rural NURSE Corps

• One in five NURSE Corps clinicians

serve in rural areas

• 9 states have a majority of their

NURSE Corps clinicians at rural sites

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