Address: 4700 S. California Ave, Chicago, IL 60632 Interim Project Director: Dr. Deborah Edberg - Deborah_Edberg@rush.edu, 312-942-5225 Funding Preferences: 1) Health Professional Shortage Area 2) Medically Underserved Community Name of Program: Rush University Medical Center/Esperanza Family Medicine Residency Program Discipline: Family Medicine Type of Application: New Eligible Entity Type: FQHC operating as part of a GME consortium Year Program Will Begin to Train Residents: AY2022-2023 Organization Website: www.esperanzachicago.org The Rush University Medical Center/Esperanza Family Medicine Residency Program will be located in Chicago’s Southwest side community of Brighton Park, where Esperanza Health Centers' flagship clinic is located. Like all of Esperanza’s service area, Brighton Park is a low-income, majority-Latino community where access to bilingual health care is in short supply. According to UDS Mapper, all five ZCTAs that make up Esperanza’s service area are Primary and Mental Health Care Professional Shortage Areas. Even more troublingly, the Chicago Department of Public Health's Health Atlas shows that in the 10 community areas that comprise our service area, some 118,000 adult residents report they have no primary care provider. These community areas see significant health disparities, with especially elevated rates of diabetes, obesity, chronic liver disease, depression/anxiety, and COVID-19 compared to the rest of Chicago. It is particularly striking to see how elevated the COVID-19 case rate is in Esperanza’s service area, as this is a singularly potent indicator of the extent to which the host of socioeconomic factors that make individuals vulnerable to negative health consequences have coalesced in our communities. Indeed, some of our core zip codes have consistently seen the most COVID-19 cases and deaths anywhere in the state of Illinois. Esperanza will partner with Rush University Medical Center (RUMC), ou
r sponsoring institution, which recently earned a top spot on U.S. News and World Report’s annual Best Hospitals Honor Roll. Other clinical sites that will participate in the residency are Rush Oak Park Hospital, Oak Street Health, and Warren Barr nursing home. The main primary care training location will be at Esperanza Brighton Park, a Federally Qualified Health Center. Residents will perform rotations at hospital rotation sites (RUMC and Rush Oak Park Hospital) that have provided extensive resident training in prior academic years for other residency programs. The residency includes curriculum in adult medicine, pediatrics, ob/gyn, geriatrics, end-of-life care, in-patient care, behavioral health, and several specialty and subspeciality rotations. The program will also include a longitudinal social justice curriculum that explores issues regarding health inequities, social determinants of health, historical oppression, bias, and experiences of oppressed communities in the health care system. The goal of this curriculum is to equip residents with the tools to promote improved health equity. The program is ACGME accredited for a maximum of 24 residents (8-8-8). The total resident FTE requested to be funded under this program for all post-graduate years of training is 24. For AY2022-2023, we are requesting 6 resident FTEs to be funded. We will reach full resident capacity of 8-8-8 in AY2026. Our residency program will increase access to primary care for the people that live in the community of Brighton Park, train clinically excellent and culturally responsive family physicians, and produce family physicians who continue to provide primary care to people living in medically underserved communities. Perhaps most importantly, our residency will create an innovative educational environment that incorporates community responsive research to determine best ways to provide care to individuals from historically oppressed communities.