Holy Cross Hospital Announces New Health Care College Scholarships to
Begin Fall 2010
Applications for Health Care and High School Senior Scholarships will
be available in January 2010, awards made in May
Taos, New Mexico (December 2009) -
Beginning January 2010, Holy Cross Hospital will open the application
process for several new scholarships for college students studying a
health care field who plan to return to Northern New Mexico to work.
These new scholarships will supplement the high school senior
scholarships Holy Cross has awarded since 1999.
In the last 10 years, Holy Cross Hospital has awarded hundreds of
scholarships to graduating high school seniors and college
undergraduates with a total value of over $1.5 million.
High school senior scholarships will continue. Each high school
scholarship pays $500 a semester for up to 8 semesters, for a total of
$4000.
In 2009 the board of Holy Cross Hospital decided to create a new set of
scholarships focused on health care. These scholarships are open to
college students at the associate, undergraduate, and graduate level.
Scholarship Committee Chair and Hospital Board Member Anna Martinez
states, “Rural hospitals all over the country are facing shortages in
health care workers. We decided to support our hospital and our
community while supporting the education of our local youth.”
Examples of health-care fields covered by the new scholarship include
counseling, occupational therapy, medical coding, nutrition, physical
therapy, radiology, graduate social work, and medicine. Fields NOT
included are veterinary medicine and undergraduate social work.
Eligible students must be willing to pledge to return to northern New
Mexico to work. If there are appropriate jobs available at Holy Cross
Hospital, they will receive preferential consideration.
To be eligible, students also must be enrolled full time in a college
as of fall 2010; be pursuing an associate, bachelor, or graduate degree
or certificate in a health-care-related field; have resided in Taos
County continuously for at least 5 years and/or graduated from a Taos
County high school; and have a GPA of at least 2.5.
Graduate and undergraduate scholarships pay a total of $10,000: $2500
each fall and spring for up to four continuous semesters.
Associate/Certification Scholarships pay a total of $5000: $1250 each
fall and spring for up to four continuous semesters.
To retain their scholarships, students must be continuously enrolled
full-time, earn at least a 3.0 semester GPA each semester, complete at
least 12 credit hours each semester, and submit documentation to the
Foundation each semester.
Applications for HCH scholarships will be available at the beginning of
January online at www.holycrossfoundation.org or www.taoshospital.org.
Submission deadline is March 29, 2010.
Contact:
Sally Trigg
Executive Director, Holy Cross Hospital Foundation
(575) 751-5811m (575) 758-4663 (fax)
