NHSC Loan Forgiveness Transfer to Private Practice?

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Wondering if anyone has successfully transferred their service to a private practice in their area. Currently in community mental health and my soul is slowly dying. From my understanding it sounds like I would probably have to pause my service time, build a private practice and get credentialed with all the necessary things, submit to be an approved site, get accepted, THEN restart my forgiveness.

I also have a friend who is starting a private practice and is open to making it a group practice that I could transfer to. This would be a lot easier, because I wouldn’t have to have a gap in my service. But assuming we’d still have to go through the approved site application.

Any info from anyone who’s done this would be greatly appreciated!!