Teaching Health Center (THC) Graduate Medical Education (GME) Payment Program - Jordan Valley Community Health Center Teaching Health Center Graduation Medical Education Program HRSA-25-077 Abstract Advocates for a Healthy Community, Inc. dba Jordan Valley Community Health Center (hereafter, "Jordan Valley") is a federally qualified health center (hereafter, "FQHC") in Springfield, Missouri. The health center's central focus is to provide accessible and comprehensive healthcare services to those in the community. The health center employs multidisciplinary clinical and support teams and provides high-quality, integrated medical, behavioral, and dental care to over 67,000 patients annually at Springfield, Hollister, Republic, Lebanon, and Marshfield, Missouri clinics. Jordan Valley is located within a Healthcare Provider Shortage Area (HPSA) with a well-documented need for providers of all specialties to meet the service area's needs. Data shows that physicians who train in a rural or underserved area (safety net) are more likely to stay and practice in a similar area. To this end, Jordan Valley has partnered with CoxHealth to expand graduate medical education in Springfield, Missouri. By creating the Southwest Missouri Consortium for Graduate Medical Education (hereafter, "SMC GME"), Jordan Valley and CoxHealth will establish an ACGME-accredited Family Medicine Residency Program (hereafter FMR at JVCHC). The primary education site will be at Jordan Valley's primary administrative location, 440 E. Tampa Street, Springfield, MO. Jordan Valley is awaiting programmatic accreditation through the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME); the organization plans to recruit the first class for the 2025-2026 academic year. All information on the residency program can be found at https://www.jordanvalley.org/careerseducation/residencies. As an FQHC, the FMR at JVCHC will focus on resident education and providing integrated care to those within the service area. The FMR at JVCHC will have two residents (2x0x0) for the academic year 2025-2026. The remaining years of funding will allow the program to mature into a 4x4x4 model. Based on this model, the FMR at the JVCHC program will provide 27 resident FTE during the THCGME funding cycle. Residents of the SMC GME program will focus their education and practice management on providing care within an FQHC setting and serving a diverse patient population. The Jordan Valley Tampa location will be the primary education site, but residents will also rotate to CoxHealth and The ARC of the Ozarks for additional learning experiences. Jordan Valley requests $4.32 million from HRSA through the THCGME funding opportunity HRSA-25-077 to expand access to healthcare and graduate medical education. The funding will allow Jordan Valley and the SMC GME to grow the healthcare workforce and education in an area with unmet healthcare needs.
