NHSC Scholarship (SP) Crossword Puzzle

______ may include charting, care coordination, training, laboratory follow-up, patient correspondence, attending staff meetings, activities related to maintaining professional licensure and other non-treatment related activities.
_______is a failure for any reason to begin or complete the NHSC scholarship service obligation, including failure to comply with the terms and conditions of deferring or postponing the obligation for postgraduate training and could result in default.
individuals who have been identified by their schools as having come from a _______ based on environmental and/or economic factors.
____ refers to individuals who have been awarded an Exceptional Financial Need scholarship (Physicians and Dentists) under former Section 758 of the Public Health Service Act (formerly 42 USC 294z).
_______ is defined as a student enrolled for a sufficient number of credit hours in any academic term to complete the course of study within the number of academic terms normally required at the school.
_________ is defined as working a minimum of 40 hours per for a minimum of 45 weeks per service year, in an NHSC-approved service site.
_____ is defines as working a minimum of 20 hours per week, not to exceed 39 hours per week, for a minimum of 45 weeks per service year, in an NHSC-approved service site.
Information considered when designating a primary care _____ include health provider to population ratios, rates of poverty, and access to available primary health services.
_____ is an annual payment paid directly to the scholar and is provided to assist in the payment of education-related expenses not covered under tuition and eligible fees and is dependent on the scholar’s discipline, year in school, and the school’s costs.
Payment(s) to a scholar or to a school on the scholar’s behalf, while the scholar is on an approved leave of absence, enrolled as a less than full-time student, or is no longer enrolled in the NHSC SP-approved course of study is a __________ . This can also occur due to administrative error.
A scholar receiving an overpayment must immediately contact the NHSC SP, follow up in writing, and make arrangements to promptly return the overpayment(s) to avoid interest accrual and ________ procedures.
Scholars may defer (i.e., postpone) their period of obligated service while they complete __________ training (including residency, chief residency, or fellowship) if the NHSC SP determines that the training is consistent with the needs of NHSC to deliver primary health care services in HPSAs.
___________ must begin performance of their NHSC service obligation no later than 6 months after graduation from the nurse-midwifery training program and are not eligible to defer their period of obligated service for postgraduate training.
A ________ is defined as all or part of the 12-month period from July 1 through June 30 during which a scholar is enrolled in a school as a full-time student.
A _______ is a temporary status. The basis for this would be a medical condition or a personal situation that: 1) would make it temporarily impossible to continue the service obligation or pay 48 the monetary debt; or 2) would involve a temporary extreme hardship to the individual and enforcement of the service or payment obligation would be against equity and good conscience.
An __________ means a license that is not revoked, suspended, or made probationary or conditional by the state licensing or registering authority as the result of disciplinary action.
A ______ permanently relieves the scholar of all or part of the NHSC SP obligation. A waiver may be granted where compliance with the NHSC SP obligation (1) is permanently impossible or (2) would involve extreme hardship and if enforcement would be against equity and good conscience.
The following may be eligible ________ NHSC sites: 1) FQHCs, 2) FQHC Look-Alikes, 3) IHS Facilities, 4) Tribally Operated 638 Health Programs, 5) Urban Indian Health Programs, 6) Federal Prisons, and 7) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Health Service Corps sites.
subsequent funding under the NHSC SP, overpayments of scholarship benefits may be collected through ________. The NHSC SP may withhold scholarship funds payable to, or on behalf of, the scholar (including stipends, ORC, and if necessary, tuition/fees payments) until the overpayment is paid in full.
Eligible appplicants must be Be attending or accepted to attend one of the following accredited schools or programs located in a state, the District of Columbia, or a ___________.
there is a minimum ______ full-time service obligation, even if the scholar received only one full or partial school year of support.
Scholarship awards are based on the cost of full-time attendance at the ___________ (i.e., the school attended/enrolled in at the time the NHSC SP application is submitted as indicated on the Acceptance Report/Verification of Good Standing Form).
For scholars taking classes at more than one school, please be advised that the NHSC SP can only make payments to ____ school—the initial school of record.
Transfers to other academic institutions are strongly __________.
Changes in __________ are not permitted. Scholars must complete the degree program for which the scholarship was awarded.
New scholars will receive stipend payments for July through October in their bank account in a lump-sum payment no later than the first week of _______ .
Each January, scholars will receive a W-2 Wage and Tax Statement form for the taxable income received under the NHSC SP during the prior tax year. Scholars have two options for receipt of the W-2 form: If you choose mailing W-2s are generally mailed by ______ 30th of each year.