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. 1
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. 2
NHSC Jobs Center Where Health Care Professionals Connect with Sites! View nearly 16,000 NHSC-approved sites with over 4,000 job vacancies. Search jobs by: • Field of Practice • Discipline • Specialty • HPSA Score BHW is making the Jobs Center • Site Name easier for health care providers • City, state, or Zip Code to connect with sites. • Sites with Open Positions 3
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 • Map & Community • Relevant Links, (photos, brochures) web sites • Site Characteristics • Points of Contact • Affiliated Sites 4
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. 5
NURSE Corps Offers loan repayment and scholarships to nurses who work in health centers, rural health clinics, hospitals, and other facilities experiencing a critical shortage of nurses. 6
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 • 7
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 NURSE Corps About 1 in 4 NHSC clinicians serve One in five NURSE Corps clinicians • • in rural areas serve in rural areas 13 states have a majority of their • 9 states have a majority of their • NHSC clinicians serving at rural NURSE Corps clinicians at rural sites sites Almost half of approved NHSC • Sites are rural 8
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