{"id":38330,"date":"2025-04-03T12:36:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T18:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=38330"},"modified":"2025-04-03T12:36:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T18:36:25","slug":"health-professional-loan-program-expanded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=38330","title":{"rendered":"Health professional loan program expanded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers passed a bill April 3 intended to help alleviate a shortage of health professionals in Nebraska.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37099\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37099\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"37099\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=37099\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SenStrommen_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"200,300\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Office of University Communication&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS R5&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Dan McKeon, District 41. Legislature - 2025 Incoming Senators. November 20, 2024. Photo by Craig Chandler \/ University Communication.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1729275105&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 2019, The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. All rights reserved.&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;135&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Mark Wilkins Lab&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SenStrommen_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Paul Strommen&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Paul Strommen&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SenStrommen_inline.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SenStrommen_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37099\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SenStrommen_inline.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Paul Strommen\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37099\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Paul Strommen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LB312, sponsored by Sidney Sen. Paul Strommen, adds nurse anesthetists to the list of health professions that qualify for the Rural Health Systems and Professional Incentive Act. The act requires participants to practice in a designated health profession shortage area in Nebraska for three years to qualify for the incentive.<\/p>\n<p>Under the bill, a newly eligible nurse anesthetist may receive repayment for qualified educational debts up to $15,000 annually for three years.<\/p>\n<p>The measure includes provisions of Ralston Sen. Merv Riepe\u2019s LB553, which add dietician nutritionists as qualified health professionals who are eligible for the program.<\/p>\n<p>LB312 passed on a 46-1 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers passed a bill April 3 intended to help alleviate a shortage of health professionals in Nebraska.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[312],"class_list":["post-38330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-and-human-services","tag-sen-paul-strommen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/UpdateBlogPhoto-4.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38332,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38330\/revisions\/38332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}