Sunday, May 11, 2025
5/11/2025
Teaching Health Center Planning and Development Program - a. Alluvion Health is an eligible applicant as a community-based ambulatory patient care center that will operate a new accredited primary care residency program as a Federally qualified health center, as defined in section 1905(I)(2)(B) of the Social Security Act [42 U.S.C.1396d(I)(2)(B)]. Alluvion will operate the residency program alone as the Sponsoring Institution. b. Project Director Contact Information: Leesha Ford 406-799-0587 lford@alluvionhealth.org 601 1st Ave N Great Falls, MT 59401-2510 c. Residency Type: Family Medicine d. Funding preference: Letter of Support for funding application from Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Program e. Population Target Area(s): Great Falls, Montana and North Central Montana AHEC region f. Funding Amount Requested: $500,000 total for two-year project period g. Projected number of resident positions in the newly established program: 3 h. Expected ACGME accreditation October 2024; Expected Medical Residency Matriculation Dates: by July 2025 As a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), Community Health Care Center, Inc. dba Alluvion [Alluvion, Alluvion Health] is a safety-net, integrated health services provider. Alluvion has an extensive history of delivering essential primary and preventative healthcare services to individuals living at or below the 200% poverty level. Alluvion Health offers a sliding fee discount program. We are dedicated to serving individuals regardless of their ability to pay, increasing access to affordable, quality health care access. We provide coordinated, comprehensive, and patient-centered care, integrating medical, dental, behavioral health, substance use disorder, and patient services. Alluvion Health has a 340-b Pharmacy, Adlera Lab, and Alluvion Clinical Services which encompass radiology, athletic/sports training, speech therapy and other out-of-scope services. Alluvion Health is working to build a community-based accredited residency program in Family Medicine focused in rural/frontier and medically underserved areas in North Central Montana. Target populations for this residency include tribal communities, American Indian/Alaskan Native, minorities, those experiencing homelessness, recently incarcerated individuals, local religious colonies, and those living in frontier/rural North Central Montana. Alluvion will serve as the sponsoring institution and plan collaboration with Touro University's new College of Osteopathic Medicine opening in Great Falls to further plan and develop a residency to support three placements, no later than July 2025. North Central Montana relies on mid-level practitioners for primary care services, with three of its counties having no primary care physician. In response to this critical shortage, Alluvion recently acquired and operates a rural primary clinic in addition to its Great Falls sites and will initiate a rural mobile unit in Spring 2023 to serve North Central Montana. The two-pronged purpose for developing a residency program focused in this region is to improve health outcomes in medically underserved communities and health professional shortage areas, and to address the physician shortage by increasing the area's opportunity and ability to recruit and retain graduates from the residency program. Alluvion is forming a Graduate Medical Education committee in 2023 and working to establish a partnership with the Montana Graduate Medical Education Council. Alluvion works closely with Montana Primary Care Association and tribal communities. Alluvion's school-based clinics, Great Falls clinic sites, rural clinics and mobile unit will serve as primary training placements for residents. Alluvion has identified numerous underserved critical access hospitals in the region to approach for further clinical opportunities.
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