What is an eligible health facility where Nursing Scholarship Program participants can fulfill the service obligation?
The NSP does not place participants at a specific facility to fulfill their service obligation to the program. However, participants must serve at an eligible nonprofit health care facility with a critical shortage of nurses. Currently, participants may choose to serve at any nonprofit facility, in any U.S. State, District of Columbia or U.S. territory that is one of the following: Disproportionate Share Hospital; Nursing Home; State or Local Public Health and/or Human Services Department; Federally-Designated Health Center; Federally-Designated Health Center Look-Alike; Native Hawaiian Health Center; Indian Health Service Health Center; Rural Health Clinic; Critical Access Hospital; Skilled Nursing Facility; Non-Federal, Non-Disproportionate Share Hospital; Ambulatory Surgical Center; Home Health Agency; Hospice Program; Federal Hospital For the purposes of the NSP, all of these types of facilities have critical shortages of nurses and are eligible health facilities where NSP particip
