South Dakota State Loan Repayment Program
This funding record is inactive. Please see the program website or contact
the program sponsor to determine if this program is currently accepting applications or will
open again in the future.
This program's specific webpage is not online while the program application cycle is closed. A broader sponsor location is linked below.
Amber Hodgin
605.773.6320
Amber.Hodgin@state.sd.us
The South Dakota Department of Health offers loan repayment for primary care providers, mental health providers, and dental health providers practicing in rural and urban Health Professional Shortage Areas. Participants must complete a two-year service obligation in nonprofit private or public sites located in federally designated Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs).
Clinicians must have a current, full, permanent, unrestricted health professional license, certificate, or registration (whichever is applicable) in South Dakota.
Eligible professions include:
- Primary care physicians (MD or DO)
- Dentists
- Dental hygienists
- Certified nurse midwives
- Nurse practitioners
- Physician assistants
- Health service psychologists
- Licensed clinical social workers
- Licensed professional counselors
- Psychiatric nurse specialists
- Marriage and family therapists
- Registered nurses
- Pharmacists
- Alcohol and substance abuse counselors
Up to $30,000 a year for full-time primary care providers and up to $15,000 a year for half-time providers.
Links to application instructions and the online application are available on the program website when applications are being accepted.
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