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Nurse Corps Loan Repayment Program (Nurse Corps LRP)
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The Nurse Corps Loan Repayment Program (Nurse Corps LRP) provides loan repayment assistance to professional registered nurses (RN), including advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs), in return for a commitment to work full-time in eligible health care facilities with a critical shortage of nurses or serve as a nurse faculty in an eligible school of nursing. Nurse Corps LRP decreases the economic barriers associated with pursuing careers at Critical Shortage Facilities or in academic school of nursing.
This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the
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No Current Data Available. Fiscal Year 2016: 518 new awards were made.
501 new awards were made.
544 new awards were made and 279 continuation awards.
Fiscal Year 2018: 544 new awards were made and 279 continuation awards.
Nurse Corps LRP piloted a set aside in FY20 for Nurses specializing in women’s health to support the Maternal Mortality Act. This set aside of $750,000 funded 6 awards. In FY21, funding for this set aside was increased to $5 million to support the robust application pool received for consideration of this funding in FY20, The average amount of new awards in FY20 was $87,883, which would yield approximately 57 awards with a budget of $5 million.
Nurse Corps LRP continued the set aside piloted in FY20 for Nurses specializing in women’s health to support the Maternal Mortality Act. In FY21, funding for this set aside was increased to $5 million to support the robust application pool received for consideration of this funding in FY20, yielding 83 new awards. In FY 21, due to supplemental funding provided through the American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act, an additional $3.3 million was allocated to the women’s health set asie, yielding 65 additional new awards and enabling program to award all eligible applicants who applied fot women’s health funding. In F22, Nurse Corps LRP is piloting a set aside for Public Health Nurses for $1.5 million to support the current and potential future pandemic responses. The FY 23 budget for the Nurse Corps LRP is $59,090,000 and is expected to fund an estimated 962 loan repayment awards.
Nurse Corps LRP continued the set aside piloted in FY20 for nurses specializing in women’s health to support the Maternal Mortality Act. In FY22, funding for this set aside was increased to $5 million to support the robust application pool received for consideration of this funding, yielding 67 new awards. In FY22, Nurse Corps LRP set aside $1.5 million for Public Health Nurses to support the current and potential future pandemic responses, making 34 awards, including 21 made through supplemental funding provided through the American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act. This enabled program to award all eligible applicants who applied for public health funding. The FY 23 budget for the Nurse Corps LRP is $64,641,327 and is expected to fund an estimated 1081 loan repayment awards.
In FY21, the American Rescue Plan Act provided the Nurse Corps Program with $200 million in additional funding to support the nation’s COVID-19 emergency response. In FY23, the remaining American Rescue Plan Act funds allowed HRSA to further bolster the nursing. workforce with a total of 505 Nurse Corps Loan Repayment Program continuation awards to nurses serving in Critical Shortage Facilities and at accredited schools of nursing. By using the remaining American Rescue Plan Act funds to make continuation awards in FY23, HRSA was able to make additional new awards, totaling 492 new and 505 continuation awards.
To address the opioid epidemic and other substance use disorders across the nation, the Nurse Corps LRP continues supporting the behavioral health nursing workforce. In FY 24, Nurse Corps LRP awarded 60 nurse practitioners specializing in psychiatric-mental health. The program also continues to dedicate a portion of the loan repayment awards to nurses specializing in women’s health and made 58 awards.
In FY24, The Nurse Corps discontinued the set-aside for Public Health Nurse because the requirement could not be met by the applicants in most states, the certification no longer existed, and the set-aside/number of awards were small in comparison to the burden to continue. The program awarded 377 new and 656 continuation awards. As of September 30, 2024, the Nurse Corps field strength comprised 1,753 nurses working in Critical Shortage Facilities located in Health Professional Shortage Areas and nurse faculty members working in academic institutions.
Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):
For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.
OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.
