Family Medicine Residency Program

[Pages:29]Family Medicine Residency Program

Increasing Capacity in Northern Arizona

Marica Martinic, MPH - Education Director Brandon Abbott, DO, MPH ? Deputy Chief Medical Officer

What is North Country HealthCare?

? North Country HealthCare is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC)

? Private, non-profit 501(c)3 ? HRSA grantee to defray the cost of care for the uninsured (10% of

our budget) ? Community Governing Board: over 50% patients ? Take care of all who seek care; sliding fee scale for low income

patients

Our Healthcare Services

? Family Medicine ? Internal Medicine ? Obstetrics and Gynecology ? Pediatrics ? Dental Care ? Behavioral Health ? Chronic Disease Management ? Care Coordination ? Integrative Medicine ? Pharmacy ? School Based Health Services ? Telemedicine

Our Locations

Serving 14 Communities

? Flagstaff ? Ash Fork ? Seligman ? Grand Canyon ? Winslow ? Holbrook ? St. Johns ? Round Valley ? Payson ? Kingman ? Lake Havasu City ? Show Low ? Bullhead City ? Williams

NAHEC History

? 1987 ? NAHEC Founded

? 1996 ? Flagstaff Free Clinic

Mohave

and NAHEC merged to

become North Country

Community Health Center WAHEC

? Teaching Health Center

La Paz

? 2008 ? North Country

became a community campus

Yuma

of AT Still University (ATSU)

School of Osteopathic

Medicine in AZ

GVAHEC

Coconino Yavapai

Apache

Navajo

NAHEC

Maricopa

Pinal

Gila

Green lee

Graham

EAHEC

Pima

Santa Cruz

Cochise

Program Office

Tucson (The University

of Arizona)

SEAHEC

Education Pipeline for Healthy Communities

Crisis: National Physician Shortage

? Physician recruitment and

? Nationally, by 2032, the AAMC

retention is affected by many

estimates that up to 55,200

factors: geography, finances, scope

primary care physicians will be

of practice, medical support, and

needed1

hospital and community support ? The ability to recruit and retain

? This estimate accounts for the supply of mid-level providers

physicians directly affects the ability to ? In Arizona:

provide adequate services to the community ? Although medical school enrollment has increased significantly over the

? 1,941 PCPs needed by 20302 ? "best county" ratio of population to

primary care physician is 1,200:1; "worst county" is 6,440:1. 3

past 10 years, GME training

programs, especially in

primary care, have seen limited

growth

Adapted from: A Roadmap to Measurably Expand Graduate Medical Education (GME) in Indiana, by Beth Wrobel, HealthLinc CEO. NACHC Policy and Issues Forum. March 29, 2019.

2019 County Health Rankings3

Health Outcomes

Ratio of Primary Care Physicians to Population

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