Tuesday, April 29, 2025
4/29/2025
Teaching Health Center Planning and Development Program - a. Eligible Entity Type: Federally Qualified Health Center. Swope Health Services will create a GME Consortium with the University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Medicine. b. Project Director: Dr. Naiomi Jamal, Chief Health Officer Email: njamal@swopehealth.org Ph: 816-599-5215 c. Residency Type: Family Medicine d. Funding preference: None e. Population Target Area: Kansas City, MO f. Funding Amount Requested: $500,000 g. Projected number of resident positions in the newly established program: 4 per each program year h. Expected CODA Accreditation Date: By March 31, 2025 Expected Residency Matriculation Date: July 1, 2026 PROJECT OVERVIEW: Swope Health Services is a Joint Commission accredited Federally Qualified Health Center offering primary care services to residents of the Kansas City, Missouri metropolitan area through 11 clinics, a mobile medical unit and a mobile dental unit. Our seven fulltime clinics are recognized as Patient-Centered Medical Homes by the National Committee for Quality Assurance. Our Behavioral Health Services is a Certified Community Behavioral Health Organization. Swope Health has operated a Healthcare for the Homeless program since 1987. Swope Health is well positioned to train new Family Practice physicians to provide whole-person, integrated care to a patient population that is uninsured or Medicaid -enrolled and experiences numerous social determinants of health barriers. Swope Health will form a GME Consortium with the University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Medicine to develop a three-year Family Medicine Residency Program. The residency Continuity Clinic will be centered at the Swope Health – Central clinic on Kansas City’s urban east side. Within the Central service area, 17% of the target population lives in poverty, although the percentage of the population in poverty in some zip codes reaches 40%. Thirteen percent of residents are uninsured. Swope Health’s patient population’s uninsurance rates are three times higher at 39% uninsured in 2021. Working with this patient population effectively requires training that is generally not provided in current family medicine residency programs. In 2021, Swope Health delivered services to 41,152 unique patients through 172,769 encounters. Over 31,000 of these patients were medical patients that received services through approximately 72,000 in-clinic and telehealth visits. GOALS AND OBJECTIVES: Swope Health is forming the GME Consortium to increase the Family Physician workforce trained to deliver services in a Federally Qualified Health Center environment. We will work with the Consortium and our planned hospital partner, University Health, to develop the residency program. Our goals are: 1) Establish a community health center based, ACGME accredited, family medicine residency program and 2) Establish sustainability for that program. Our projected outcomes are to: 1) train newly licensed physicians to deliver quality care to our underserved population; 2) train the next generation of physicians to practice in Federally Qualified Health Centers and other community health settings and 3) create a training model that can be replicated by Federally Qualified Health Centers serving communities similar to Swope Health. An additional focus will be to create a health equity-based training model.
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