NHSC Online Jobs Center
| Recruiting primary care providers – doctors, nurses, dentists, and mental health providers – is a costly and time consuming effort, especially for health care sites in underserved areas. Recruiting one physician to a high need area can take up to two years and cost $60,000. Increasing access to high quality care is an HHS priority. The National Health Service Corps NHSC Jobs Center is an online employment site connecting primary care health professionals to more than 14,000 employers in underserved communities throughout the U.S. and U.S. territories. Accessible from a personal computer, Smartphone or similar device, the Jobs Center showcases job openings along with a wealth of information about the health care facility. Google Maps and Google Places technologies are integrated into the Jobs Center allowing users to see the site and nearby places of interest (restaurants, schools), painting a picture of the community. Since Jobs Center launch on April 30, 2012, the site had more than 126,000 visits and 3,000+ new job opportunities posted. Health care sites immediately experienced the benefits. Presbyterian Medical Services in New Mexico reported they “…consistently receive 12-15 inquiries from providers per week. Prior to that, we received little to no inquiries.” Contact Info: Rebecca Spitzgo, Associate Administrator, HRSA, Bureau of Clinician Recruitment and Service, (301) 443-1589, rspitzgo@hrsa.gov Websites: |
The Coal Dust Explosibility Meter
The Coal Dust Explosibility Meter (CDEM) employs technology that is different from current tools and methods and provides instant feedback to assess the relative hazard of explosible dust accumulations in underground coal mines and the efficiency of a mine’s rock dusting practices. The CDEM provides mine operators with the information needed to take immediate action when potentially hazardous conditions are present. More details ...
NIH RePORT: Public Access to Research
Explore health-related research supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and read how your tax dollars are supporting cutting-edge research to improve the health of our nation by using NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools (RePORT). Read scientific advances from NIH labs and hundreds of institutions across the country supported by NIH funding, search the portfolio of funded projects, and link out to the latest news in biomedical research. More details ...
Online Food Handler Training Project
How do you train over 3,500 people each year in food sanitation when contending with a twenty percent reduction in staff? The Albuquerque Area Indian Health Service, Division of Environmental Health Services’ solution to this problem is an online training designed to be efficient and culturally-relevant, involving multiple Federal and Tribal partners. Due to in-kind services, less than $200 was spent on the project. More details...
NIAID FreeStuff: Stretching Tax Dollars
Why spend taxpayer money on a new microscope or chair if someone at the same government agency has that item and no longer needs it? NIAID FreeStuff provides an online forum where staff at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) can post and search for surplus equipment and supplies. This exchange increases the useful life of existing government property and reduces waste that can hurt the environment. More details...
The 100K Genome Project: Tracking foodborne illness to its source
The “100K Genome Project” is creating an open-source database of 100,000 foodborne pathogen genomes through an innovative partnership among government, business and academia. This important contribution to public health is cost-effective and represents a sustainable effort that could only have been achieved through the combining of resources from multiple stakeholders, ultimately resulting in a critical tool for preventing and responding to outbreaks of foodborne disease. More details ...
NHSC Online Jobs Center
Underserved communities need primary care providers – doctors, nurses, dentists, mental health providers. The National Health Service Corps Jobs Center connects clinicians to health care sites that need them most; increasing access to high quality health care for millions of Americans. More details ...
