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Health Professional Loan Repayment
and
Scholarship Information |
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The Health Professional Loan Repayment and Scholarship programs were
created to address the critical shortage of health care professionals in
Washington State.
- The loan repayment program provides loan repayment assistance
to licensed primary care health professionals.
Eligible provider types
- The scholarship program provides scholarships to students
training to become primary care health professionals.
In return, participants in both programs agree to provide primary care
health service in rural or underserved urban areas with designated shortages.
For more information, contact:
Chris Wilkins
Higher Education Coordinating Board
360-236-2817
- The National Health Service Corps scholarship and loan
repayment
site
application
For more information, contact:
Jennell
Prentice
360-236-2814
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Information for Facilities Seeking Loan Repayment
We are excited to announce the 2010 Health Professional Loan
Repayment Site Application. Using the following link you will need to
click on “Student Registration” to complete your site application.
- All applicants are treated as students.
- Remember your user name is your email address.
- Click on “Health” to get to the “LPR site application” form.
https://fortress.wa.gov/hecb/portal/default.aspx/Common/Student%20Registration/default.aspx.
We have simplified the Site Application process; please make note of
the following changes.
- The site application process is open now through September 4, 2009.
- All applications are reviewed without priority to recruitment or
retention.
- You are not required to submit retention candidate names.
- The online application requires you to go through a registration
process. Click the link above and follow the instructions. If you have problems, call Mary Roberts, 360-236-2804.
- The 2010 Provider Application and 2010 Loan Repayment Eligible Site
List will be posted in January 2010.
The Provider Loan Repayment Application process is online as well.
Please note these details.
- There will be only one application cycle for the provider.
- The on-line provider application period is from January 2010 – April
30, 2010.
- Recruitment and Retention status has changed.
- To be eligible for recruitment status the provider must be hired
and/or will begin working after July 1, 2009 regardless of when they
signed their contract.
- To be eligible for retention status the provider had to begin working
on or before June 30, 2009.
All applicants must be physically working no later than July 1, 2010
to be eligible.
- In addition to the site score, the provider score is based on
information submitted on their application. The site score and provider
score will be added together to provide a “total score” for the
applicant.
- Provider application questions please call, Chris Wilkins at (360)
596-4817.
The loan repayment program is for practices providing primary care. Preference
is given to practices:
- Serving significant numbers of Medicaid or Sliding-Fee Discount
Schedule patients or are 30 minutes or more from the next nearest source
of primary care;
- Experiencing severe recruitment difficulties (as measured by high
vacancy rates or longstanding vacancies);
- Requiring specific non-medical qualifications to address access
barriers such as language skills that may make recruiting difficult.
Provider types eligible to submit
site applications
- General Family MD, DO, and ND
- General Internist
- General Pediatrician
- OB/GYN
- General Dentist
- LPN
- Physician Assistant
- Nurse Midwife
- Nurse Practitioner
- Licensed
Midwife
- Registered Nurse
- Pharmacist
- Dental Hygienist
Urgent/Emergent Care clinics and positions are not considered
primary care within program definitions.
A facility interested in becoming an eligible site for loan repayment
must submit a site application. If you would like to be added to our
notification mailing list, contact
Mary Roberts
at
360-236-2804. Below is a timeline for the application and notification process for
loan repayment and site approval.
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Site |
Provider |
| July |
Site application available from the Dept. of Health |
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| September |
Site applications due September 4th |
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| November |
Eligible Loan Repayment sites notified |
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| January |
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Eligible site list posted; provider on-line application
available |
| April |
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Provider application and required documents deadline - April
30th |
| June |
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Award notifications mailed out |
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