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Project Name: Rural Residency Planning and Development Program (P13)
Applicant Title: CAHABA MEDICAL CARE
Abstract Text: Applicant Organization Name: Cahaba Medical Care Foundation Address: 405 Belcher Street, Centreville, AL 35042-2946 Project Director Name: Dr. John B. Waits, MD, FAAFP.Contact Phone Numbers (Voice, Fax): xxx-xxx-xxxx/ xxx-xxx-xxxx Email: xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx List all grant program funds requested in the application: RRPD Eligible Entity/Facility Type (e.g., rural hospital, refer to Section III.1 Eligible Entities): Federally Qualified Health Center Project Director (PD) Name & Contact Information: John B Waits, MD. Phone: xxx-xxx-xxxx.Email: xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx Residency Program Director Name & Contact Information (if applicable): Taylor Preston Email: xxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx Program Pathway (select one): General Primary Care and High Need Specialty Pathway Residency or Maternal Health and Obstetrics Pathway Residency: General Primary Care and High Need Specialty Pathway Residency Specialty Area: Psychiatry Residency Format (select one): Rural residency program (non-RTP), Separately Accredited Rural Track Program (ACGME RTP Type 1), or “New” Rural Track Program (ACGME RTP Type 2) RTP Type 2 - track within an existing program Sponsoring Institution Organization & Location Cahaba Medical Care Foundation, 405 Belcher St, Centreville, AL 35042-2946 Rural Target Area(s): Alabama: Wilcox County, Perry County, Bibb County, Chilton County Funding Amount Requested: $750,000 Program Sustainability Option (refer to Section IV.2.ii. Program Sustainability): Other - CMC will be seeking THCGME funding Projected Total Number of Residents: 12 (3-3-3-3) Expected ACGME Accreditation and Residency Matriculation Dates: Accreditation by July 2025 with matriculation by July 1, 2026 Funding Priority Points Requested (refer to Attachment 9 and Section V.2 Review and Selection Process): No funding priority requested Summary: Cahaba Medical Care, a non-profit Community Health Center serving a six-county area in central Alabama wishes to partner with the University of Alabama at Birmingham, a flagship quaternary care hospital and Graduate Medical Education entity with an existing psychiatry residency to create a psychiatry rural training track as well as a behavioral health fellowship for primary care providers in an effort to begin addressing the mental health workforce shortages in underserved Alabama utilizing Rural Residency Planning and Development funding. The goals of this partnership during the grant period would be to create the curriculum for and accredit the psychiatry rural training track and assemble the rural psychiatry and behavioral health faculty so they would be in place for the launch of this program at the end of this grant period. By putting psychiatry and behavioral health training in rural underserved areas, in partnership with an FQHC that is already caring for many with limited or no insurance that does not cover mental health care, there will be an immediate patient care benefit with a long-term goal of placing graduates of the program in similar rural underserved areas of the state providing comprehensive mental health care services. The project will serve the rural, underserved counties of Bibb, Chilton, Perry, and Wilcox in Central Alabama. Each of the counties is in HPSAs for Primary and Mental and Behavioral Health. Each of the counties has a poverty level above the State and National average. Perry and Wilcox counties, frontier counties in the Alabama Black Region, have poverty levels of 36.10% and 27.6% respectively, which are 2-3 times higher than the State and National average. If awarded, CMC will work closely with UAB to further build out the behavioral health infrastructure at CMC and to recruit and hire more psychiatry faculty during 2023-2024, submit the PIF and complement change to the ACGME by November 2024, and receive accreditation by April 2025. UAB would then begin interviewing the first class in 2025 to matriculate in 2026. Previous funding: RRPD, THC, ISTP