Table 3. Percentage Growth in States' Total National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Clinician Numbers during the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Period: Relationship to Baseline Number of Corps Loan Repayment Clinicians per 100,000 Population Below Poverty^*

State quartile at baseline	States (n)	States' Baseline NHSC Clinicians per 100,000 Population Below Poverty	States' Growth in NHSC Clinicians During Recovery Act Period (mean %)	SD
Lowest quartile^{^†}	13	0.63–5.36	291%	253
Second lowest quartile^{^‡}	13	5.49–7.96	210%	146
Second highest quartile^{^§}	13	8.08–14.50	172%	71
Highest quartile^{^¶}	12	15.78–62.92	111%	67
All states' average	51	0.63–62.92	197%	164

P = .041.
↵* Baseline NHSC clinician numbers as of March 30, 2009; growth in NHSC numbers assessed between March 30, 2009, and February 28, 2011. Data from the US Bureau of Clinician Recruitment and Service's Management Information System Solution.
↵† Lowest quartile: Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Vermont, Virginia.
↵‡ Second lowest quartile: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New York, South Carolina, West Virginia.
↵§ Second highest quartile: Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Washington, Wisconsin.
↵¶ Highest quartile: Alaska, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Maine, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Utah, Wyoming.