10-144 C.M.R. ch. 512, § I - INTRODUCTION
A. Intent
The Department of Human Services' Community Scholarship
Program is designed to increase availability of primary health care
practitioners in designated health professional shortage areas (HPSA) through
cooperative community, state, and federal funding under
PL
B. Summary
1. The Community Scholarship Program is
instituted to make federal and state funding available, when matched by
community funding, for practitioners who come from and return to rural areas to
practice.
2. The rules delineate
the conditions under which a community and an individual recipient are eligible
for state and federal matching scholarship assistance.
3. The primary health care provider education
programs which are included in the Maine Community Scholarship Program, when
that state match is available, include programs for Nurse Practitioners,
Physician Assistants, Physicians, and Certified Nurse Midwives.
C. Staffing
The Community Scholarship Program will be administered by the Office of Rural Health, Department of Human Services.
Notes
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