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Tools

  • Alabama Health Workforce: Highlights from the Health Workforce Profile
    Highlights compiled 2000 data on levels of employment, projected growth and key environmental factors that affect demand for health care. Details for medicine, nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, mental health and aides.
    Sponsoring organization: National Center for Health Workforce Analysis
  • Arkansas Health Workforce: Highlights from the Health Workforce Profile
    Highlights compile 2000 data on levels of employment, projected growth and key environmental factors that affect demand for health care. Details for medicine, nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, mental health and aides.
    Sponsoring organization: National Center for Health Workforce Analysis
  • Illinois Health Workforce: Highlights from the Health Workforce Profile
    Highlights compile 2000 data on levels of employment, projected growth and key environmental factors that affect demand for health care. Details for medicine, nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, mental health and aides.
    Sponsoring organization: National Center for Health Workforce Analysis
  • Kentucky Health Workforce: Highlights from the Health Workforce Profile
    Highlights compile 2000 data on levels of employment, projected growth and key environmental factors that affect demand for health care. Details for medicine, nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, mental health and aides.
    Sponsoring organization: National Center for Health Workforce Analysis
  • Louisiana Health Workforce: Highlights from the Health Workforce Profile
    Highlights compiled 2000 data on levels of employment, projected growth and key environmental factors that affect demand for health care. Details for medicine, nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, mental health and aides.
    Sponsoring organization: National Center for Health Workforce Analysis
  • Mississippi Health Workforce: Highlights from the Health Workforce Profile
    Highlights compile 2000 data on levels of employment, projected growth and key environmental factors that affect demand for health care. Details for medicine, nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, mental health and aides.
    Sponsoring organization: National Center for Health Workforce Analysis
  • Missouri Health Workforce: Highlights from the Health Workforce Profile
    Highlights compile 2000 data on levels of employment, projected growth and key environmental factors that affect demand for health care. Details for medicine, nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, mental health and aides.
    Sponsoring organization: National Center for Health Workforce Analysis
  • Tennessee Health Workforce: Highlights from the Health Workforce Profile
    Highlights compile 2000 data on levels of employment, projected growth and key environmental factors that affect demand for health care. Details for medicine, nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, mental health and aides.
    Sponsoring organization: National Center for Health Workforce Analysis
  • FindAResident
    Helps to locate residency and fellowship positions; puts residents in contact with programs looking to fill these positions; supplements the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS); and is a resource when changing specialty, location, or residency program.
    Sponsoring organization: Association of American Medical Colleges
  • State Health Workforce Profiles
    Detailed state-by-state data on supply, demand, distribution, education and use of health personnel.
    Sponsoring organization: National Center for Health Workforce Analysis
  • J-1 Visa Waiver Information Guide
    Information and frequently asked questions on the requirements and benefits of the J-1 visa waiver, which allows foreign physicians to practice in rural areas in the United States.
    Sponsoring organization: Rural Assistance Center
  • Health Care Workforce Information Guide
    Information and frequently asked questions on physicians, midlevel practitioners, pharmacy and dental health care providers for rural communities.
    Sponsoring organization: Rural Assistance Center
  • Med Job Louisiana
    This state funded program provides recruitment services to rural and underserved entities throughout the state.
    Sponsoring organization: Central Louisiana Area Health Education Center
  • Bringing Doctors to the Delta
    Allows foreign physicians, who are trained in the U.S., to work in medically underserved areas for three years. Accepts waiver requests for medical specialists, and has assisted with the placement of more than 50 physicians in the region.
    Sponsoring organization: Delta Regional Authority
  • Health Workforce Information Center (HWIC)
    An online library which provides information on health workforce issues. Resources include health workforce programs and funding sources; workforce data, research and policy; educational opportunities and models; and news and events, also available through e-mail updates.
    Sponsoring organization: Bureau of Health Professions

Funding

  • 2010 Minority Nurse Scholarship Program
    Annual scholarship program to help outstanding students complete their studies leading to a BSN degree.
        Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
        Application Deadline: Feb 1, 2010
        Sponsor: MinorityNurses.Com
  • Advanced Education Nursing Traineeship (AENT)
    Grants to eligible institutions to provide financial support through traineeships for registered nurses.
        Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
        Application Deadline: Dec 7, 2009
        Sponsor: Bureau of Health Professions
  • AmeriCorps State and National Grants
    Funding is available to support multi-state programs addressing critical community needs through service of professionals, paraprofessionals, and pre-professionals in communities with shortages of these professionals.
        Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
        Application Deadline: Jan 26, 2010
        Sponsor: Corporation for National and Community Service: For Faith-Based and Other Community Organizations
  • Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation Grants
    Supports domestic health professional education.
        Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
        Application Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
        Sponsor: Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation
  • National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program
    Loan repayment funding to ensure an adequate supply of health professionals to provide primary health services in selected health professional shortage areas.
        Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
        Application Deadline: Sep 30, 2010
        Sponsor: Bureau of Health Professions
  • Nurse Anesthetist Traineeships (NATP)
    Grants to eligible institutions for projects that support traineeships for licensed registered nurses enrolled as full-time students beyond the twelfth month of study in a Master's nurse anesthesia program.
        Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
        Application Deadline: Dec 7, 2009
        Sponsor: Bureau of Health Professions
  • Nurse Education, Practice and Retention (NEPR)
    Grants to strengthen the capacity for basic nurse education and practice and address the shortage of nurses in the health care workforce.
        Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
        Application Deadline: Dec 22, 2009
        Sponsor: Bureau of Health Professions
  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation New Careers in Nursing
    A scholarship program to help alleviate the nursing shortage and increase the diversity of nursing professionals.
        Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
        Application Deadline: Dec 15, 2009
        Sponsor: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholars Program
    Funding to develop the next generation of national leaders in academic nursing through career development awards for outstanding junior nursing faculty.
        Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
        Application Deadline: Feb 2, 2010
        Sponsor: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Unsolicited Grants
    Grants to address health care workforce, innovative health care solutions, and health care to vulnerable populations.
        Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
        Application Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
        Sponsor: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • Wal-Mart National Giving Program
    Funding to support the replication of a particularly innovative local or regional initiative at other sites around the country.
        Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
        Application Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
        Sponsor: Wal-Mart Foundation
  • Wal-Mart State Giving Program
    The Wal-Mart Foundation will award grants at the state and regional level to support unmet needs that are not directly addressed by any of their current programs.
        Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
        Application Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
        Sponsor: Wal-Mart Foundation
  • Wal-Mart Store and Sam's Club Giving Programs
    Funding to local nonprofit organizations in four main areas of focus: Education, Workforce Development / Economic Opportunity, Health & Wellness and Environmental Sustainability.
        Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
        Application Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
        Sponsor: Wal-Mart Foundation

Publications

  • 2004 Report to the Secretary: Rural Health and Human Service Issues
    Report to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Overview of key issues and trends affecting health and human service delivery in rural communities. Detailed information on the coordination of behavioral health and primary care, access to oral health care, and access to human services for the elderly.
    Sponsoring organization: National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services
    Date: 04 / 2004
    Format: PDF
  • The 2005 Report to the Secretary: Rural Health and Human Service Issues
    Report to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Includes chapters focused on collaborations in rural communities, rural access to obstetrical services, obesity in rural communities, and rural welfare reform. Includes recommendations to address these issues.
    Sponsoring organization: National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services
    Date: 04 / 2005
    Format: PDF
  • Addressing Mental Health Workforce Needs in Underserved Rural Areas: Accomplishments and Challenges
    Reviews efforts to address mental health workforce needs in underserved rural areas. Includes a history of federal efforts to address rural mental health workforce needs. Discusses Mental Health Professional Shortage Area (MHPSA) designations.
    Author(s): Donna C. Bird, Patricia Dempsey, David Hartley
    Sponsoring organization: Maine Rural Health Research Center
    Date: 10 / 2001
    Format: PDF
  • Addressing the Nursing Shortage: Impacts and Innovations in Frontier America
    Discusses the nursing shortage and how it affects rural and frontier communities. Includes strategies to address the shortage and maps of hospital nurse shortage areas.
    Sponsoring organization: National Center for Frontier Communities
    Date: 12 / 2004
    Format: HTML
  • Alabama State Health Workforce Profile - Full Report
    In-depth report on Alabama's health workforce. Includes data on population, health status, health services employment, and employment by professions.
    Sponsoring organization: Bureau of Health Professions
    Date: 2004
    Format: PDF
  • Are Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses a Solution to Rural Mental Health Workforce Shortages?
    Discusses the role advanced practice psychiatric nurses (APPNs) could play in providing mental health services to rural areas. Includes information on prescription authority and collaboration requirements for each state, as well as state distribution of APPNs.
    Author(s): David Hartley, Valerie Hart, Nancy Hanrahan, Stephenie Loux
    Sponsoring organization: Maine Rural Health Research Center
    Date: 04 / 2004
    Format: PDF
  • Arkansas State Health Workforce Profile - Full Report
    In-depth report on Arkansas' health workforce. Includes data on population, health status, health services employment, and employment by professions.
    Sponsoring organization: Bureau of Health Professions
    Date: 2004
    Format: PDF
  • Curing the Crisis in Nursing Education: A Master Plan for Tennessee
    Discusses nursing workforce shortage issues in Tennessee.
    Date: 01 / 2005
    Format: PDF
  • Effects of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 on Health Workforce Development in the States
    Describes how WIA resources have been used by state and local workforce investment boards to develop the health care workforce. Describes characteristics of WIA that can be used to support health workforce development.
    Sponsoring organization: Health Resources and Services Administration
    Date: 11 / 2004
    Format: HTML
  • Factors that Influence Students in Choosing Rural Nursing Practice: A Pilot Study
    Discusses nursing shortages which continue globally and are especially critical in rural and remote communities.
    Author(s): Angeline Bushy, Beverly Leipert
    Journal citation: Rural and Remote Health Volume: 5 Date: 04 / 2005
    Format: HTML
  • Female Physician Recruitment Secrets for Rural Communities
    Lists the top 10 things a woman physician should know about rural medical practice as well as tips for rural communities in recruiting and retaining female physicians.
    Sponsoring organization: University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
    Date: 2005
    Format: PDF
  • Health Care Workforce Distribution and Shortage Issues in Rural America
    NRHA Policy Brief. Discusses the health care labor shortage as it impacts rural areas. Makes policy recommendations.
    Sponsoring organization: National Rural Health Association
    Date: 03 / 2003
    Format: PDF
  • Health Care Workforce in Ten States: Education, Practice and Policy
    Comprehensive assessment of how a variety of workforce issues impact health care accessibility in a set of representative states: California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Texas, Utah, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
    Author(s): Tim Henderson
    Sponsoring organization: National Conference of State Legislatures
    Date: 2001
    Format: HTML
  • Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs)
    Information on HPSAs, which may have shortages of primary medical care, dental or mental health providers and may be urban or rural areas, population groups or medical or other public facilities.
    Sponsoring organization: Bureau of Primary Health Care
    Date: 2003
    Format: HTML
  • Illinois State Health Workforce Profile - Full Report
    In-depth report on Illinois' health workforce. Includes data on population, health status, health services employment, and employment by professions.
    Sponsoring organization: Bureau of Health Professions
    Date: 2004
    Format: PDF
  • International Medical Graduates and the Primary Care Workforce for Rural Underserved Areas
    An analysis of primary care IMGs compared to U.S. medical graduates working in rural underserved areas.
    Author(s): Kenneth S. Fink
    Journal citation: Health Affairs Volume: 22 Issue: 2 Pages: 255-262
    Date: 04 / 2003
    Format: PDF
  • Is There Still a Nursing Shortage?
    Describes current trends in recruitment and employment of registered nurses (RNs). Discusses the changing nurse workforce and policy implications for the future.
    Author(s): Peter I. Buerhaus, Douglas O. Staiger, David I. Auerbach
    Journal citation: Health Affairs Volume: 22 Issue: 6 Pages: 191-198
    Date: 08 / 2004
    Format: PDF
  • Kentucky State Health Workforce Profile - Full Report
    In-depth report on Kentucky's health workforce. Includes data on population, health status, health services employment, and employment by professions.
    Sponsoring organization: Bureau of Health Professions
    Date: 2004
    Format: PDF
  • Louisiana Interagency Task Force on the Future of Family Medicine
    Looks at physician workforce needs as related to family physicians in Louisiana. Discusses workforce needs in rural areas.
    Date: 10 / 2006
    Format: PDF
  • Louisiana State Health Workforce Profile - Full Report
    In-depth report on Louisiana's health workforce. Includes data on population, health status, health services employment, and employment by professions.
    Sponsoring organization: Bureau of Health Professions
    Date: 2004
    Format: PDF
  • Low-Skill Employment and the Changing Economy of Rural America
    Reports trends in rural low-skill employment in the 1990s and their impact on the rural workforce. The share of rural jobs classified as low-skill fell by 2.2 percentage points between 1990 and 2000, twice the decline of the urban low-skill employment share, but much less than the decline of the 1980s.
    Author(s): Robert Gibbs, Lorin Kusmin, John Cromartie
    Sponsoring organization: USDA Economic Research Service
    Date: 10 / 2005
    Format: PDF
  • Medical Malpractice Insurance
    Discusses the rising cost of medical malpractice insurance which is affecting access to healthcare and adversely impacting the quality of that care, prompting urgent calls for medical liability reform.
    Author(s): Robert P. Hartwig, Claire Wilkinson
    Date: 06 / 2003
    Format: PDF
  • Mississippi State Health Workforce Profile - Full Report
    In-depth report on Mississippi's health workforce. Includes data on population, health status, health services employment, and employment by professions.
    Sponsoring organization: Bureau of Health Professions
    Date: 2004
    Format: PDF
  • Mississippi's Physician Labor Force: Current Status and Future Concerns
    Results of a 2002 survey of Mississippi physicians that describes their basic demographics, comparing Mississippi physicians to physicians nationally. Provides policy recommendations based on survey results.
    Author(s): J.S. Cossman
    Sponsoring organization: Mississippi Health Policy Research Center
    Date: 10 / 2003
    Format: PDF
  • Missouri State Health Workforce Profile - Full Report
    In-depth report on Missouri's health workforce. Includes data on population, health status, health services employment, and employment by professions.
    Sponsoring organization: Bureau of Health Professions
    Date: 2004
    Format: PDF
  • Most Low-Education Counties Are in the Nonmetro South
    Overview of low-education counties, where at least one of every four adults age 25-64 has not completed high school. Discusses poverty and employment in rural, low-education counties.
    Author(s): Robert Gibbs
    Sponsoring organization: USDA Economic Research Service
    Journal citation: Amber Waves Date: 06 / 2005
    Format: HTML
  • National Advisory Committee on Rural Health & Human Services Meeting Minutes, Charleston, West Virginia, September 7-9, 2003
    National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services, part of the Health Resources and Services Administration, Office of Rural Health Policy. Meeting included the following topics: partnerships for health professions education, mental health, oral health, and senior services.
    Sponsoring organization: National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services
    Date: 09 / 2003
    Format: HTML
  • Pharmacist Workforce: A Study of the Supply and Demand for Pharmacists
    Describes the shortage of pharmacists, increasing demand for pharmacy services, and potential impact of the pharmacist shortage on patient care. Includes a section on demand for pharmacists in rural areas.
    Sponsoring organization: Bureau of Health Professions
    Date: 12 / 2000
    Format: PDF
  • Physician Incomes in Rural and Urban America
    Reports on the findings of a Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) that the average physician incomes in rural and urban areas do not differ significantly, even after accounting for differences in physician work effort, specialty, and other physician and practice characteristics.
    Author(s): James D. Reschovsky, Andrea Staiti
    Sponsoring organization: Center for Studying Health System Change
    Date: 01 / 2005
    Format: HTML
  • Physician Workforce: Supply Increased in Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Areas but Geographic Disparities Persisted
    Describes the change in supply of physicians from 1991 to 2001. Includes data nationally and by state on physicians in nonmetropolitan areas and on the number of specialists versus generalists. Includes list of Health Resources and Services Administration programs that address the supply and distribution of health professionals, with 1991 and 2001 expenditures for each program.
    Sponsoring organization: Government Accountability Office
    Date: 10 / 2003
    Format: PDF
  • Public Health Worker Shortages: Trends Alert
    Discusses results of a survey done with human resource directors in state public health offices regarding public health workforce issues.
    Author(s): Melissa Taylor Bell
    Sponsoring organization: Council of State Governments
    Date: 11 / 2004
    Format: PDF
  • Recruiting Physicians for Rural Settings
    Discusses effective strategies rural communities can use to recruit and retain physicians.
    Author(s): Brian McCartie
    Sponsoring organization: Catholic Health Association of the United States
    Journal citation: Health Progress Date: 04 / 2004
    Format: HTML
  • Recruitment and Retention of a Quality Health Workforce in Rural Areas, Introduction: Defining the Issues and the Principles of Recruitment and Retention
    Overview of the issues endemic to health care workforce recruitment and retention in rural areas. First in a series of issue papers addressing rural health care workforce development through career pipeline programs.
    Sponsoring organization: National Rural Health Association
    Date: 03 / 2005
    Format: PDF
  • Rescuing the Health Workforce: Options for State Action
    Discusses projected health workforce shortages nationwide, causes of the shortage in health care workers, and strategies used in several states to address the problem.
    Sponsoring organization: National Governors Association Center for Best Practices
    Date: 01 / 2004
    Format: PDF
  • Rural Populations and Health Care Providers: A Map Book
    Uses 2000 Census data to reassess and provide a visual picture of where rural people live, how the racial and ethnic nature of rural populations is changing, and whether the distribution of health care providers matches the population distribution.
    Author(s): Randy Randolph, Katherine Gaul, Rebecca Slifkin
    Sponsoring organization: North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center (Cecil G. Sheps Center)
    Date: 09 / 2002
    Format: HTML
  • State Licensure Laws and the Mental Health Workforce - Executive Summary
    This study examines licensure statutes and administrative rules for social workers, psychologists, professional counselors and marriage and family therapists in all states with at least ten percent of the population living in rural areas (total of 40 states).
    Author(s): David Hartley, Erika C. Ziller, David Lambert, Stephenie L. Loux, Donna C. Bird
    Sponsoring organization: Maine Rural Health Research Center
    Date: 05 / 2002
    Format: PDF
  • State of the Health Workforce in Rural America: Profiles and Comparisons
    Overview of rural health care workforce issues. National and state-by-state data on the health care workforce, with rural-urban comparisons and interstate comparisons. Also includes data on rural health care facilities.
    Author(s): Eric H. Larson, Karin E. Johnson, Thomas E. Norris, Denis M. Lishner, Roger A. Rosenblatt, L. Gary Hart
    Sponsoring organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
    Date: 08 / 2003
    Format: PDF
  • State Responses to Health Worker Shortages: Results of 2002 Survey of States
    Describes how states are responding to health workforce shortages. Includes state-by-state information on responses to non-physician shortages.
    Sponsoring organization: National Center for Health Workforce Analysis
    Date: 11 / 2002
    Format: PDF
  • Tennessee State Health Workforce Profile - Full Report
    In-depth report on Tennessee's health workforce. Includes data on population, health status, health services employment, and employment by professions.
    Sponsoring organization: Bureau of Health Professions
    Date: 2004
    Format: PDF
  • Welfare Limits Mean Increased Hardship for Rural Ohio Families
    Study of low-income rural Appalachian Ohio families finds that time limits on cash welfare benefits have coincided with gains in employment and a distressing rise in their levels of hunger and homelessness.
    Author(s): Paola Scommegna
    Sponsoring organization: Population Reference Bureau
    Date: 01 / 2005
    Format: HTML
  • Working More but Staying Poor
    Highlights research results from a comprehensive portrait of working families living in poverty, both nationally and in the rural south, using data from the Annual Demographic Files of the Current Population Survey.
    Author(s): Bradford Mills, Brian Whitacre, Christiana Hilmer
    Sponsoring organization: Southern Rural Development Center
    Date: 10 / 2005
    Format: PDF

Journals

  • Journal of Rural Health
    Offers research of projects to improve rural health, statistics, and mathematical models. Provides summaries of recently published rural health research. Provides links to author, subject and abstract indexes.
    Sponsoring organization: National Rural Health Association

Organizations

  • AHEC South Arkansas
    The mission of AHEC South Arkansas is to provide state-of-the-art comprehensive, accessible health care for the people of South Arkansas by educating, nurturing, and supporting present and future healthcare professionals.
  • Bright Futures
    National health promotion initiative dedicated to the principle that every child deserves to be healthy and that optimal health involves a trusting relationship between the health professional, the child, the family, and the community as partners in health practice.
  • Bureau of Health Professions
    Works to assure access to quality health care professionals in all geographic areas and to all segments of society. Part of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
  • Center for the Health Professions
    Works to help health care professionals, schools, organizations and policymakers respond to the challenges of educating and managing the health care workforce. Part of the University of California, San Francisco.
  • Central Louisiana Area Health Education Center
    Dedicated to increasing the number of primary health care professionals and improving access to quality health care in Central Louisiana.
  • Delta Area Health Education Center
    The Delta AHEC mission is to enhance health care access and health status, through recruitment and retention of health care professionals, professional education, and public health education in a seven county area of the Arkansas Delta.
  • Delta Health Education Partnership
    Delta Health Education Partnership (DHEP) is a multi-state consortium funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to provide community-based educational programs for primary health care providers within the lower Mississippi Delta Region.
  • GSK/TUMS-First Responder Institute
    First Responder Institute, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization whose objective is to provide assistance to emergency personnel to help them make their communities safer.
  • Illinois Health Education Consortium
    Works to improve health care for the underserved through community health promotion activities, health professions education and health careers development.
  • Illinois Public Health Preparedness Center
    National organization which enhances the readiness of the public health workforce in responding to routine and urgent public health threats, including bioterrorism events.
  • Mississippi (UMC) AHEC Program
    Mississippi Area Health Education Center at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, MS. Stephen Silberman, DMD, DrPH, is the contact person.
  • National Association for Healthcare Quality
    An organization that promotes the continuous improvement of quality in healthcare by providing educational and development opportunities for professionals at all management levels and within all healthcare settings.
  • National Black Nurses Association Research Institute
    A professional nursing organization representing African American nurses in the United States.
  • National Center for Health Workforce Analysis
    Collects, analyzes and disseminates health workforce information and facilitates national, state and local workforce planning efforts. Part of the Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
  • National Center for Rural Health Professions
    Provides rural interdisciplinary preceptorships and a rural training program for primary care physicians. Conducts research on healthcare workforce issues and is a Center for Excellence in Rural Health. Located at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Rockford.
  • National Health Service Corps
    Works to improve the health of the underserved by recruiting and retaining the health professionals to deliver health care in underserved communities. Provides technical assistance to federally designated Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) on projects that enhance the NHSC's site development mission. Part of the Bureau of Health Professionals, Health Resources and Services Administration.
  • National Resident Matching Program
    Provides a uniform date of appointment to positions in graduate medical education (GME) in the United States.
  • National Rural Recruitment & Retention Network
    Works to help health care professionals, including dentists and dental hygienists, find practice opportunities in rural areas throughout the country. Includes state information and a list of state contacts.
  • North Louisiana Area Health Education Center
    Works to bring healthcare education and resources to rural and underserved communities throughout North Louisiana.
  • Purchase Area Health Education Center
    Addresses health care, educational, and cultural issues in a 12 county region in western Kentucky.
  • Rural Nurse Organization
    Supports the needs of rural nurses.
  • Southeast Missouri Area Health Education Center
    The mission of SEMO AHEC is to create an educational environment in the 25 county region of Southeastern Missouri in order to improve the distribution of healthcare professionals to underserved populations, and to improve access to healthcare services in the region.
  • TimeLine Recruiting
    Aligns candidates and opportunities for physicians and healthcare providers on a national level. Specializes in rural physician searches. Offers loan assistance.
  • University of Missouri - Columbia, Nursing Outreach and Distance Education
    The University of Missouri-Columbia is a nationally recognized institution and the school of nursing provides a rich and rewarding learning environment for students.
  • West Area Health Education Center
    Works to improve the recruitment, distribution and retention of health care professionals in our region and to improve the health of the communities we serve.