SELECTION CRITERIA
The IHS has identified the positions in each Indian
health program for which there is a need or vacancy and
ranked those positions in order of priority by developing
discipline specific prioritized lists of sites. Ranking
criteria for these sites included the following:
Historically critical
shortages caused by frequent staff turnover;
Current unmatched
vacancies in a Health Profession Discipline;
Projected vacancies in a
Health Profession Discipline;
Ensuring that the
staffing needs of Indian health programs administered by
an Indian tribe or tribal or health organization receive
consideration on an equal basis with programs that are
administered directly by the Service; and
Giving priority to
vacancies in Indian health programs that have a need for
health professionals to provide health care services as a
result of individuals having breached Loan Repayment
contracts entered into under this section.
Consistent with this priority ranking, in determining
which applications to approve and which contracts to
accept, the IHS will give priority to applications made
by AI/AN and to individuals recruited through the efforts
of Indian tribes, tribal or Indian organizations.
With respect to priorities among the various health professions,
Section 108(d)(3)(A)(i)-(ii) require that of the total amount appropriated
for fiscal year 2000 for loan repayment contracts, not less than 25
percent be provided to applicants who are nurses, nurse practitioners,
or nurse midwives and not less than 10 percent be provided to applicants
who are mental health professionals (other than nurses, nurse practitioners,
or nurse midwives). This requirement does not apply if the number
of applicants from these two groups, respectively, is less than the
25 and 10 percent requirements;
Subject to the above statutory priority for
nurses and mental health practitioners, the IHS will give
priority in funding among health professionals to
physicians in the following priority specialties:
anesthesiology, emergency room medicine, general surgery,
obstetrics/gynecology, ophthalmology, orthopedic surgery,
otolaryngology/otorhinolaryngology, psychiatry and
radiology.
The following factors are equal in weight when applied
and would be applied when all other factors are equal
between applicants. One or all of the following factors
may be applicable to an applicant, and the applicant who
has the most of these factors, all other criteria equal,
would be selected.
An applicant's length of
current employment in the IHS, tribal, or urban program;
Availability for service
earlier than other applicants (first come, first served);
and
Date the individual's
application was received by the LRP.
Applicants will be accepted into the LRP according to
the above mentioned priorities as long as funds
remain available during the fiscal year.
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