Healthcare Career Scholarship Program
To uphold the Mission of FHN and services we provide in our communities through the support of future healthcare professionals, FHN is providing up to three $1,000 scholarships to students pursuing specific healthcare careers.
Applications will be accepted from any student residing in FHN's service area and currently enrolled in an accredited program of study involving the following healthcare careers:
Benefit-eligible staff of FHN may not apply.
Volunteer Services Scholarship Program
One $1,000 scholarship will be awarded to a student enrolled in a fully accredited college with a major in a healthcare field. The student MUST be an active member of the FHN Student Volunteer Program with a minimum of 40 career hours.
Applications will be accepted from any student residing in FHN's service area and currently enrolled in an accredited program of study involving the following healthcare careers:
- Medical Assistant
- Health Information Management (HIM)
- Imaging/Radiology Technologists (Cardiac, Diagnostic or Vascular Ultrasound, CT Technology, MRI, Radiology, or Nuclear Medicine)
- Information Technology (with a focus on healthcare)
- Medical Technologist (MT), Medical Laboratory Technician (MLT), Clinical Laboratory Scientist, and Medical Laboratory Scientist
- Nursing (Registered Nurse (RN) or Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)
- Pharmacist
- Rehabilitation Services (Physical Therapist (PT), Occupational Therapist (OT), Physical Therapy Assistant (PTA), Certified Occupational Therapist Assistant (COTA), Speech Language Pathologist (SLP)
- Respiratory Therapist
- Surgical Technologist
Diversity Healthcare Career Scholarship
At FHN, our effectiveness at using the talents of people of different backgrounds, experience, and perspectives is key to successfully achieving our mission and strategic business objectives.
To uphold the Mission of FHN and services we provide in our communities through the support of future healthcare professionals, FHN is providing a $1,000 diversity scholarship opportunity to students pursuing specified healthcare careers.
Applications will be accepted from any minority student residing in FHN's service area currently enrolled in an accredited program of study involving the following healthcare careers:
Benefit-eligible staff of FHN may not apply
• At all times, FHN reserves the right to determine whether the one (1) scholarship opportunity is to be awarded based upon its review of the applications received. FHN also reserves the right to determine qualifications/eligibility. A minority student selected to receive the scholarship shall be responsible for all tax consequences arising from the scholarship.
• A "minority student" is an individual who is either African American/Black (a person having origins in any of the black racial groups in Africa); Hispanic American (a person of Spanish or Portuguese culture with origins in Mexico, South or Central America, or the Caribbean Islands, regardless of race); Asian American (a person with origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and the Pacific Islands (including, among others, Hawaii, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia); or Native American (a person who is a member of a federally or state recognized Indian tribe, or whose parents or grandparents have such membership, including native people of Alaska).
• For purposes of this program, the "service area" includes Stephenson, Jo Daviess, Carroll, Ogle, and Winnebago counties in Illinois.
• In order to be eligible, the minority student must be currently enrolled in an accredited program of study involving the noted healthcare careers and/or have otherwise declared their major in such a career and are taking courses in furtherance of that major.