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Health Workforce Programs

Our workforce programs help strengthen the health workforce and connect skilled health care providers to communities in need, improving the health of people who need it most.

We offer scholarship, loan, and loan repayment programs to individuals and award grants to organizations (For example, schools, hospitals, health departments).

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National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program

Program Type: Scholarship
Topic: Medicine; Nursing
Purpose: Provide scholarships to students pursuing primary care health professions training in return for a commitment to provide primary health services in a Health Professional Shortage Area.

National Health Service Corps Students to Service Loan Repayment Program (NHSC S2S LRP)

Program Type: Loan Repayment
Topic: Medicine; Nursing; Oral Health
Purpose: Provide loan repayment to students in their last year of school pursuing a degree in allopathic medicine, osteopathic medicine, physician assistant studies, nursing, or dentistry. In exchange for loan repayment, individuals agree to provide primary health services in Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) of greatest need.

Native Hawaiian Health Scholarship Program (NHHSP)

Program Type: Scholarship
Topic: Medicine; Nursing; Oral Health; Public Health
Purpose: Provide federal financial support for Native Hawaiians who are students at health professions schools, in return for a commitment to provide primary health services to the Native Hawaiian population in the State of Hawaii.

Nurse Anesthetist Traineeship (NAT)

Program Type: Grant
Topic: Nursing
Purpose: Increase the supply and distribution of certified registered nurse anesthetists who are prepared and well positioned to practice independently and collaboratively within interprofessional teams and to deliver evidence-based, high-quality, and safe anesthesia and pain management services. The program aims to expand access to anesthesia services, especially to rural, urban, and tribal underserved communities nationwide.

Nurse Corps Loan Repayment Program (Nurse Corps LRP)

Program Type: Loan Repayment
Topic: Nursing
Purpose: Assist in the recruitment and retention of professional registered nurses, including advanced practice registered nurses dedicated to working in health care facilities with a critical shortage of nurses or working as nurse faculty in eligible schools of nursing by decreasing the economic barriers associated with pursuing careers at such critical shortage facilities or in academic nursing.

Nurse Corps Scholarship Program

Program Type: Scholarship
Topic: Nursing
Purpose: Provide scholarships to nursing students in exchange for a minimum two-year, full-time service commitment (or part-time equivalent) at an eligible health care facility with a critical shortage of nurses.