(Ontario, CA – December 11, 2023) — Prime Healthcare is pleased to announce that five of its California residency programs received $1,185,000 in funding in the latest round of CalMedForce graduate medical education GME grants provided by the California Medical Association Foundation, Physicians for a Healthy California.
The residency programs are part of the Prime West Consortium sponsoring institution. Prime West is an academic consortium consisting of the residencies within Prime Healthcare hospitals in California. The Prime West Consortium sponsors residency programs in Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Podiatry, and Dermatology.
In San Bernardino County, $405,000 was awarded to Prime Healthcare’s family medicine programs at San Dimas Community Hospital/Desert Valley Hospital in Victorville and Chino Valley Medical Center in Chino, California. Centinela Hospital Medical Center was awarded $225,000 in Los Angeles County, $330,000 was awarded to West Anaheim in Orange County, and $225,000 was awarded to Shasta Regional Medical Center in Shasta County.
In total, more than $38 million was awarded to programs across California to support medical training and residency programs and help grow the physician workforce. The program allocates millions of dollars each year to sustain, retain, and expand California graduate medical education programs in primary care and emergency medicine.
“We are honored to receive this grant that will strengthen our training programs and expand GME residency slots in California,” said Hamed Shalikar, MD, Designated Institutional Official (DIO) of Prime West Consortium. “Thank you to Physicians for a Healthy California, the California Medical Association and San Bernardino County Medical Society for your support of our mission to train resident physicians and ensure health equity for all community members.
The California Future Health Workforce Commission estimated that California will need 4,700 additional primary care clinicians by 2025 and approximately 4,100 more by 2030 to meet demand.
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About Prime Healthcare and Prime Healthcare Foundation: Prime Healthcare is an award-winning health system operating 45 hospitals and more than 300 outpatient locations in 14 states, providing over 2.6 million patient visits annually. It is one of the nation’s leading health systems with nearly 50,000 employees and physicians dedicated to providing the highest quality healthcare. Fourteen of the Prime Healthcare hospitals are members of the Prime Healthcare Foundation, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit public charity. Based in Ontario, California, Prime Healthcare is nationally recognized for award-winning quality care and has been named a Top 10 and Top 15 Health System by IBM Watson Health. To learn more, please visit www.primehealthcare.com