Flux in Loan Repayment Programs for Healthcare Professionals With States' Budget Cuts and National Health Service Corps Budget Increases

Date
05/2012
Description

This findings brief discusses how states' loan repayment programs are weathering the current economic conditions and competition with the expanding federal National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program (NHSC LRP). This brief also presents survey results from directors of 96 of the 98 identified state programs addressing questions on year-by-year changes in the size and composition of their workforce and budget changes.

Center
North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center
Authors
Donald Pathman, Lynda Goldberg, Thomas Konrad, Kelly Kerwin, Jennifer Craft Morgan
Topics