Twenty-seven area family practice residency training programs are getting a financial boast from the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, which today announced it was awarding more than $2.7 million in awards administered through OSHPD's Song-Brown Program.
Long Beach Memorial Medical Center and Downey Regional Medical Center will each get $51,615 to improve healthcare workforce training programs.
"The Song-Brown funding to family practice residency programs is invaluable in training California's next generation of physicians to practice and serve in the State's underserved areas," OSHPD Director Dr. David Carlisle said in a statement.
Family practice programs receiving awards are:
Stanislaus Family Medicine, $206,460
UC Davis, $206,460
Ventura County Medical Center, $206,460
White Memorial Medical Center, $206,460
Loma Linda University, $154,845
Scripps Mercy Hospital in Chula Vista, $154,845
UCSD Combined Family Medicine - Psychiatry, $154,845
USC-California Hospital Medical Center, $154,845
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, $103,230
Kaiser Permanente in Orange, $103,230
Mercy Medical Center in Merced, $103,230
Natividad Medical Center, $103,230
UC Irvine, $103,230
UCLA, $103,230
Contra Costa County Health Services, $51,615
Glendale Adventist Medical Center, $51,615
Mercy Medical Center in Redding, $51,615
Northridge Hospital Medical Center, $51,615
Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center, $51,615
Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital, $51,615
San Joaquin General Hospital, $51,615
San Jose - O'Connor Hospital, $51,615
Santa Rosa Family Medicine, $51,615
UCSF-Fresno, $51,615
UCSF-San Francisco General Hospital, $51,615
The Song-Brown program was established by the Health Care Workforce Training Act to increase the number of family practice physicians, family nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and registered nurses being trained in the state to provide needed medical services to Californians. More than half of the family practice physicians trained in Song-Brown funded programs practice in underserved communities upon completion of their Family Practice residency program.
Long Beach Memorial Medical Center and Downey Regional Medical Center will each get $51,615 to improve healthcare workforce training programs.
"The Song-Brown funding to family practice residency programs is invaluable in training California's next generation of physicians to practice and serve in the State's underserved areas," OSHPD Director Dr. David Carlisle said in a statement.
Family practice programs receiving awards are:
Stanislaus Family Medicine, $206,460
UC Davis, $206,460
Ventura County Medical Center, $206,460
White Memorial Medical Center, $206,460
Loma Linda University, $154,845
Scripps Mercy Hospital in Chula Vista, $154,845
UCSD Combined Family Medicine - Psychiatry, $154,845
USC-California Hospital Medical Center, $154,845
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, $103,230
Kaiser Permanente in Orange, $103,230
Mercy Medical Center in Merced, $103,230
Natividad Medical Center, $103,230
UC Irvine, $103,230
UCLA, $103,230
Contra Costa County Health Services, $51,615
Glendale Adventist Medical Center, $51,615
Mercy Medical Center in Redding, $51,615
Northridge Hospital Medical Center, $51,615
Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center, $51,615
Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital, $51,615
San Joaquin General Hospital, $51,615
San Jose - O'Connor Hospital, $51,615
Santa Rosa Family Medicine, $51,615
UCSF-Fresno, $51,615
UCSF-San Francisco General Hospital, $51,615
The Song-Brown program was established by the Health Care Workforce Training Act to increase the number of family practice physicians, family nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and registered nurses being trained in the state to provide needed medical services to Californians. More than half of the family practice physicians trained in Song-Brown funded programs practice in underserved communities upon completion of their Family Practice residency program.
Karen Robes Meeks came to work for the Press-
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