The National Health Service Corps Program refers to a health care system in which the government owns the medical care facilities and employs physicians.
The NHSC was established with bipartisan support by the Emergency Health Personnel Act of 1970.
NHSC program addresses persistent health care workforce shortages in vulnerable rural, frontier, and urban communities.
Most NHSC clinicians work in Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs).
In FQHC it looks like clinics, Indian Health Service sites, certified rural health clinics, detention facilities, critical access hospitals, community mental health centers, state and local health departments, school-based clinics, free clinics, and substance abuse treatment facilities
The demand for NHSC support from students, clinicians, and NHSC sites far exceeds what is currently funded by the federal government.
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