Mercy Fort Smith will welcome its first internal medicine and family medicine residents this summer.
The new residency programs, the result of a collaboration with the Arkansas Colleges of Health Education, are set to begin July 1. A $1.3 million donation from ACHE and the Degen Foundation is funding the programs, designed to help retain doctors in the River Valley while boosting the hospital’s staffing.
The Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine is the sponsoring institution, and the programs have received accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. With the significant physician shortage in our community, a new graduate medical program will help us to grow our own, said John Sealey, DO, associate dean of clinical medicine at ARCOM, in a news release. Statistics indicate that 75% of individuals who study and then train in a location will stay in that area. These new physicians tend to be young and at a point where they are planting roots.
May 10, 2021
Pullman Regional Hospital
SPOKANE, Wash. –Washington State University Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine has earned accreditation to start its first family medicine residency program in Pullman.
The WSU Family Medicine Residency Program-Pullman, based at Pullman Regional Hospital, is a three-year residency training program focused in a critical-access hospital in which physician residents will have opportunities to experience the full range of family medicine practice. The program, which will welcome its first residents in summer 2022, will host three residents per year for a total of nine residents when fully implemented.
Critical access hospitals have 25 or fewer acute care beds and serve rural communities with essential health care services. As a critical access hospital, Pullman Regional Hospital provides 24-hour emergency care, inpatient and outpatient surgery, imaging and labs, full-service obstetrical care, physical and occupational therapy, cardiac rehabili
The M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust recently awarded Pullman Regional Hospital $450,000 for the clinical and education space for the proposed WSU Family Medicine Residency Program.
Last year, PRH submitted a letter of inquiry to the foundation and submitted a proposal for a grant in the fall, said Rueben Mayes, PRH Foundation chief development and external relations officer.
The hospital was notified in October that the proposal had been accepted. Representatives from the foundation visited the site for the residency program in December, he said
Mayes said the application itself included what PRH intended to do with the money, the cost of the residency program and what impact the grant would have on the project.
April 20, 2021
A new medical residency program developed in partnership with Pullman Regional Hospital and the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine continues to gain support in the form of a second major grant.
The M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust has awarded a $450,000 grant to Pullman Regional Hospital to renovate approximately 5,000 square feet of space. That space, which will include 14 exam rooms as well as a study area, library and faculty offices, will be used for the new Family Medicine Residency Program.
Renovations are expected to begin this fall, with the first group of physician residents expected to arrive in June 2022. Residents of the three year program will treat patients under the oversight of Dr. Stephen Hall, developing program director.
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