Rural Residency Planning and Development Program - Applicant: Golden Valley Memorial Hospital District - Clinton, MO Entity: Rural Hospital Program Pathways: General Primary Care and High Need Specialty and Maternal Health and Obstetrics Pathway Residency Medical Specialties: Family Medicine with Enhanced Obstetrics Training Residency Format: Rural Residency Program Sponsoring Institution name: University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, MO Rural Target County or counties: Benton, Henry, and St. Clair counties Funding Amount Request: $749,958.26 Program Sustainability option: Option 1- Rural Hospital “new” residency program Projected total number of residents: Approximately 4 in PGY1 Expected ACGME accreditation: October 2027 First resident matriculation dates: July 2028 Funding priorities requested: Priority 2 HRSA awards received within the last 5 years: FY23 Nurse Education, Practice, Quality, and Retention Simulation Education Training Program (Grant #: T48HP52023); FY24 Rural Health Network Development Planning Grant Program (Grant #: P10RH53095); FY21 Rural Health Clinic Vaccine Confidence Program (Grant #: G29RH43096) Summary: Golden Valley Memorial Hospital (“GVMH”) is based in Clinton, Missouri, and operates a 56-bed hospital and a 24-hour emergency department, ambulance, as well as four multi-specialty ambulatory clinics, outpatient therapy services, an outpatient clinic, home health agency, hospice services and a cancer center. As proposed by GVMH, the Rural Residency Establishment Program (“RREP”) will establish a new, sustainable rural residency program with accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). As required by the Rural Residency Planning and Development Program, the qualifying medical specialty selected for this program will be family medicine with enhanced obstetrical training, which was chosen based on the acute need for expanded family medicine and maternal health providers in the project service area, which covers Henry, Benton, and St. Clair Counties. In developing and implementing the proposed rural residency program, GVMH will partner with the University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Medicine (“UMKC SOM”), which will act as the sponsoring institution for the new Golden Valley Memorial Healthcare Family Medicine Program. In addition to bolstering the availability of primary care services, these efforts will contribute to addressing the major healthcare challenges facing the region, including in key areas such as chronic disease, substance use disorder and behavioral health, maternal and pediatric health, and social determinants of health. This program will pursue the following objectives and associated outcomes: Objective #1: Develop the GVMH Family Medicine Residency Program and receive ACGME accreditation. Outcome #1.a: Appoint a residency program director by October 31, 2025. Outcome #1.b: Submit the ACGME application for the new rural residency program by January 31, 2027. Outcome #1.c: Establish a new ACGME-accredited rural residency program by October 31, 2027. Outcome #1.d: Begin training first resident class no later than July 31, 2028. Objective #2: Finalize a validated sustainability plan for the GVMH Family Medicine Residency Program that includes ongoing funding streams to sustain long-term resident training after the program is established. Outcome #2.a: Finalize detailed pro forma for program sustainability by July 31, 2026. Objective #3: Develop a structured plan to track and publicly report on resident career outcomes after graduation for at least 5 years after the first graduating class to assess retention in rural communities. Outcome #3.a: Finalize and submit detailed graduate outcome tracking plan by July 31, 2027.
