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Missouri Community Health Foundation Loan Repayment Program

Sponsor
Missouri Community Health Foundation
Deadlines
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Contact

Joni Adamson
573.636.4222
jadamson@mo-chf.org

Purpose

Loan repayment fund that assists with increasing access to healthcare services in underserved communities throughout Missouri. The Foundation partners with primary care medical, advanced practice nursing, and dental residents during their postgraduate training to provide educational student loan repayment in exchange for service at a Missouri Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) upon completion of training.

The service obligation is a 1 year commitment at a Missouri FQHC for each year of loan repayment assistance received and will begin upon completion of a recipient's training or specified employment date. The total number of years a recipient is obligated to serve will be 1-2 years.

Eligibility

Health professions:

  • Primary care physicians
  • Advanced practice nurses
  • Physician assistants
  • Dentists
  • Optometrists
  • Pharmacists
  • Dental hygienists
  • Licensed clinical psychologists
  • Licensed clinical social workers
  • Licensed professional counselors
  • Marriage and family therapists

Primary care specialties:

  • Family medicine
  • Internal medicine
  • Obstetrics/gynecology
  • Pediatrics
  • Internal medicine/pediatrics
  • Psychiatry
  • Child and adolescent psychiatry
  • Adult medicine
  • Women's health
  • General dentistry
  • Pediatric dentistry
  • Public health dentistry

Detailed list and table of eligibility requirements

Geographic coverage
Missouri
Amount of funding

Up to $60,000 in exchange for a 2 year service commitment.

Application process

Follow the application process discussed in the application instructions.

Funding type
Loan Repayment Programs
Tagged as
Access · Behavioral health · Behavioral health workforce · Dental workforce · Federally Qualified Health Centers · Loans, loan repayment, and loan forgiveness for health careers · Maternal health and prenatal care · Maternal health workforce · Nurse practitioners and other advanced practice registered nurses · Nurses · Oral health · Pharmacy workforce · Physician assistants · Physicians · Primary care · Public health · Specialty care · Missouri



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