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Task Force, Commission or Panel

• The following scholarship & loan repayment proposals are currently under consideration by the legislature:
  • grants to student RNs, LPNs, or CNAs who are employed by nursing homes and who will remain in their positions for one year after accepting the grant
  • scholarship program for eligible resident students enrolled in an accredited RN education programs
  • loan repayment program for eligible residents RN students.
    For more information: Michigan State Legislature
    
• The Michigan State Loan Repayment Program (SLRP) offers loan repayment to physicians, dentists, nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, and physician assistants in return for working in underserved communities.
  For more information: Michigan Department of Community Health, 517-241-9946
  
  

Marketing Health Careers

• The Michigan Health Council maintains a website dedicated to increasing healthcare professions awareness among school age children.
  For more information: Health Opportunities for Today and Tomorrow
  

Other

• A study of the current and future needs of the professional nursing workforce was completed in July 2001 by the Department of Consumer and Industry Services, as authorized by the Michigan legislature.
  For more information: Study of the Current and Future Needs of the Professional Nursing Workforce in Michigan