Monday, May 12, 2025
5/12/2025
Teaching Health Center Planning and Development Program - Project Abstract • Applicant Organization Name and Type: Indiana Health Centers, FQHC • Project Director Name: Chad Springer • Contact Phone Numbers: 317-204-6576 ext 4166 • Email Address: cspringer@ihcinc.org • Residency Type: Family Medicine • Population Target Area(s): Logansport, Peru, Kokomo, Marion, Seymour and Spencer, Indiana • Projected Number of Resident Positions: 4 • Expected ACGME Residency Matriculation Dates: July 1, 2026 • Funding Amount Requested: $500,000 • Funding Preference Requested: Project benefits rural and underserved populations Indiana Health Centers, Inc. (IHC) has a longstanding history in Indiana, serving the state’s rural, urban, underserved and minority populations since 1981. The organization was originally funded as a HRSA Migrant Health Center, and has grown into a statewide health center, serving various regions and vulnerable populations throughout Indiana. It is comprised of eight CHC funded sites, one HCH (Healthcare for the Homeless) funded site, two integrated WIC programs, five free-standing WIC programs, one mobile health clinic, and a central administrative office in Central Indiana. IHC is the only Migrant Health Center in the state of Indiana, and as such, is vital to meeting the needs of this special population. IHC is committed to providing quality-cost effective care to patients in Indiana, existing to expand affordable access to high-quality health care for underserved and impoverished populations. IHC continually meets the needs of the identified service area population, based on data and feedback from the Community Health Needs Assessment, by developing and implementing new services and care models that deliver high-value and high-quality care. IHC offers primary health care and screenings for all life cycles, prenatal and OB/GYN care, behavioral health counseling and intervention, X-ray, laboratory and diagnostic testing, confidential STV/HIV testing and counseling, enabling services, as well as preventative, restorative and emergency dental services. Chronic disease case management, pharmacy assistance programs, smoking cessation, nutrition services, outreach and enrollment assistance, health education programs, and interpretive services for non-English speaking and the hearing impaired are also offered to IHC patients. The program will be carried out through planning efforts to implement a Family Medicine Medical Residency Program through IHC and Marian University College of Osteopathic Medicine. The specific objectives of this program include: • IHC Residency program developed and ready for implementation by July 1, 2026. • Minimum of 4 Residents complete the Residency program annually. • All IHC residents gain fulltime employment as upon completion of program. • Residents will have a broad understanding FQHC’s, the role of FQHC’s and how FQHC’s can impact the health of rural residents. • Sustainability plan for Medical Resident program developed. IHC is proposing a unique Rural Medical Residency Program that will target several, unique communities of rural Indiana, impacting hundreds of thousands of Indiana, rural residents who have limited access to healthcare services due to the rural nature of Central and Southern Indiana. Marian University, located in Central Indiana, is well versed in the urban healthcare needs of Indiana and has continued to expand its knowledge of rural Indiana. With this in mind, IHC has identified Marian University as an ideal partner to integrate a Medical Residency program of this kind, focusing on rural portions of Indiana and areas that are not currently impacted by a Medical Residency program and communities where the demand is so high as the population grows and ages. This program will target IHC sites in Logansport, Peru, Kokomo, Marion, Seymour and Spencer, Indiana, areas not currently served by a Residency Program.
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