Growth and Changes in the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Workforce with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

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Studied how additional supplemental funding to the National Health Service Corps through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which was focused on granting more loan repayment awards to clinicians who agreed to work in underserved areas, affected the NHSC's workforce. States that proportions of the NHSC's workforce serving in rural areas changed only modestly.

Donald E. Pathman, Thomas R. Konrad

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, 25(5), 723-733

09/2012

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Behavioral health workforce · Loans, loan repayment, and loan forgiveness for health careers · Nurse practitioners and other advanced practice registered nurses · Physician assistants · Physicians · Policy · Primary care · Scholarships for health careers