Rural Residency Planning and Development Program - Eligible Entity/Facility Type (e.g., rural hospital, refer to Section III.1 Eligible Entities): school of allopathic medicine, rural hospital, rural community-based ambulatory patient care center, faith-based organization -Project Director (PD) Name & Contact Information: Kevin Shannon MD, kshannon@llu.edu, (603) 785-9558 -Residency Program Director Name & Contact Information (if applicable): Jamie Snyder, MD, jasnyder@llu.edu (402) 440-4499 -Program Pathway (select one): General Primary Care and High-Need Specialty -Residency Specialty Area: Psychiatry -Residency Format (select one): Rural track program expansion -Sponsoring Institution Organization & Location: Loma Linda University Health Education Consortium, Loma Linda, CA -Rural Target Area (s): Big Bear and Barstow, CA -Funding Amount Requested $750,000 -Program Sustainability Option: Options 1 and 6 -Projected Total Number of Residents at capacity PGY1-2, PGY2-2, PGY3-2, PG4-2 totaling 8 residents -Expected ACGME Accreditation and Residency Matriculation Dates: Established Program is ACGME Accredited: Resident Matriculation: 7/28 The LLUHEC Psychiatry Rural Residency Track Program is targeting the rural communities of Bear Valley and Barstow, CA. Big Bear Valley is at 6,750 feet elevation in the San Bernardino Mountains, and Barstow is located in the vast Mojave Desert. Both are in San Bernardino County, CA-the largest county in the contiguous United States. Both regions have insufficient physicians to care for their populations and will continue to lack psychiatrists, without a concerted effort to develop, implement, and manage a rural residency track. In this grant the Loma Linda University Health Education Consortium (LLUHEC) - comprised of Loma Linda University Health and SAC Health (an FQHC with sites in Federal Office of Rural Health Programs designated rural communities), and other partners intend to build on our success of creating a large, vibrant and successful urban Teaching Health Center (HRSA THCGME programs) at SAC Health to address these issues in rural parts of our region where SAC Health already operates clinics, or plans to do so, and to collaborate with rural hospitals in both rural communities. By combining the resources of an established FQHC with rural sites, a sponsoring academic institution, two rural hospitals, a managed Medi-Cal (Medicaid) provider, the Development of Inland Empire Training in Rural Psychiatry (DIET-RP) collaborative can demonstrate a framework of providing outstanding graduate medical education within rural communities to physicians committed to serving there. The LLUHEC Psychiatry Residency Program will achieve ACGME approval for expansion for a new rural track by 6/2027 and matriculate the first two residents by 7/2028, ultimately training two residents per PGY year for a total of 8 rural track residents. LLUH has received 22 grant awards from HRSA over the last 5 years. Grants were awarded for Training A22HP3100, T34HP42140, MC1HP42086, T2946706, TA2HP48941, 1M01HP52150 Graduate Education D40HP33349, D40HP33349 Fellowships A22HP31001, T25HP37600 Nurse Education U4EHP39473 Residency D33HP49080, RRPD-P1349604 Scholarships T08HP39318, T5246764 Centers of Excellence D34HP45725 Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending CE1HS46136, CE1HS46422, CE1HS52145 Community Based Dental Partnership H65HA00004 Maternal Health Research Network UR6MC50347
