2013 Hawai‘i Health Workforce Summit: Improving Provider Satisfaction & Practice Sustainability

Hawaii’s 1st Health Professional State Loan Repayment Program

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Who’s Eligible? Physicians (allopathic/osteopathic); nurse practitioners; certified nurse-midwives; and physician’s assistants. Physician specialties may include: family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics/gynecology, geriatrics, or psychiatry. Nurse practitioners and physician assistant’s specialties: adult, family, pediatrics, psychiatry/mental health, geriatrics, or women’s health. Applicants must be United States citizens or U.S. Nationals, have no outstanding contractual obligation for health professional services to the Federal Government, State or other entity, no judgment lien against their property for a debt to the U.S. and not be excluded, debarred, suspended, or disqualified by a Federal agency. Initial eligibility will be evaluated through a background and credit check. Awarded recipients will be selected by the Hawaii Medical Education Council. All applications must be submitted by October 1, 2012. Click here to apply.
3 physicians will be selected to receive loan funding of $40,000.00 in YR 1 and $40,000.00 in YR 2. An additional 9 physicians will be selected in year 2 to receive loan funding of $40,000.00. All will be obligated to commit to 2 years of service at HSLR sites. HSLR sites are public or non-profit private entities located in and providing health services in health professional shortage areas, known as HPSA's. HPSA's are defined by HRSA as having shortages of primary medical care, dental or mental health providers and may be geographic, demographic or institutional.These areas include federally-qualified health centers, rural health clinics, critical access hospitals, long-term care facilities, community outpatient facilities, free clinics, school based health clinics, state or federal correctional facilities and solo or group practices. A map of the HPSA's locations can be viewed here. To learn more about HPSA's, visit: http://hpsafind.hrsa.gov/
In addition to caring for the community they serve, recipients are expected to be involved with workforce development activities, like health career recruitment and teaching. The Hawaii Student Loan Repayment Program will improve the number of primary care providers in medically underserved areas of Hawaii. It will improve the retention of health care providers in medically underserved areas by lessoning the burden of large debt preventing many from choosing primary care careers in these areas.
For more information about this opportunity click here or fill out this interest form for further details on applying.

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