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State Office of Rural Health and Primary Care

 

The mission of the Idaho State Office of Rural Health and Primary Care is to promote access to quality health care for people in Idaho.

National Health Service Corps

 

The National Health Service Corps (NHSC) is a federal agency that is committed to improving access to healthcare for the nation’s underserved. The NHSC collaborates with communities in need to develop and expand health care in rural and inner-city neighborhoods alike, where access challenges are due to language, geographic, cultural or financial barriers. The NHSC offers this support to communities in the form of scholarship or loan repayment funding to clinicians who are dedicated to serving these populations. Loan repayment and scholarship awards are made in exchange for an obligated period of service at an approved site. Both the site and the clinician seeking loan repayment need to submit separate applications and meet eligibility criteria and be approved for the clinician to receive funding. Eligible sites of service must be in a Health Professional Shortage Area, take Medicaid and Medicare patients, and provide a sliding fee discount schedule to patients who are compromised in their ability to pay for care.

More information is available on the National Health Service Corps web site, or by calling toll free: 1-800-221-9393.

 
Important Announcement

 

Opportunity for Loan Repayment Update:
The National Health Service Corps received $300 million from the American Reinvestment Recovery Act (Recovery Act) - $200 million of which will go to support the Loan Repayment Program. Assistance will be offered to more than 3,300 physicians, dentists and other primary care providers who are committed to serve in our nation’s neediest communities.  
 
The NHSC Loan Repayment program offers repayment of educational loans for full-time clinicians in exchange for a two year service commitment at an approved site. Up to $50,000 (less if the total outstanding loan balance is lower than $50,000) towards qualifying educational loan debt is available. Clinicians who stay at their sites longer may be eligible to apply for additional years of support.
 
How to Apply:
Clinicians can begin applying for this NHSC opportunity now at: www.nhsc.hrsa.gov. Or, for more information, call 1-800-221-9393.
 
More than 7,000 already eligible service sites will be able to post significantly more new vacancies and increase the number of clinicians eligible for loan repayment awards at their sites. Sites must apply for NHSC approval.
 
Loan repayment awards to primary health care clinician applicants who are interested in loan repayment will be made on a first-come, first-served basis, opening new opportunities for eligible entities located in Health Professional Shortage Areas with lower HPSA scores. Applications will be accepted on an open, continuous basis until all Recovery Act funds are expended – 15 months or sooner.
 
For More Information:

 NHSC Site Application information
 NHSC Loan Repayemnt information

Please feel free to contact the State Office of Rural Health and Primary Care:
RuralHealth@dhw.idaho.gov or (208) 334-0669 
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This is an image logo for the State Office of Rural Health and Primary Care. It depicts the sun rising over the mountains and links back to the Rural Health and Primary Care main web page.

State Office of Rural Health and Primary Care
450 W. State St. – 4th Floor
P.O. Box 83720
Boise, Idaho 83720-0036
Phone: 208-334-0669
Fax: 208-332-7262
E-mail: RuralHealth@dhw.idaho.gov
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