With a goal of improving access and quality of healthcare in Tennessee’s distressed counties, health insurance provider Amerigroup Tennessee has established a new scholarship at East Tennessee State University – the Amerigroup Rural Medicine Scholarship (ARMS), valued at $52,000 per student. The scholarship is funded through a $156,000 grant from Amerigroup, and will fully fund the education of three students in ETSU’s Master of Science Nursing-Family Nurse Practitioner concentration, who will be expected to serve as a nurse practitioner in one of the state’s distressed counties for a three-year period.