(BPRW) COMMONSPIRIT HEALTH AND MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ANNOUNCE FIRST PHASE EDUCATION SITES DESIGNED TO DIVERSIFY THE CLINICIAN WORKFORCE
“More in Common Alliance” to deal with vital gaps in care by educating and coaching extra BIPOC clinicians at websites throughout the U.S.
(Black PR Wire) CHICAGO and ATLANTA – CommonSpirit Health and Morehouse School of Medicine right this moment introduced the event of three undergraduate and 4 graduate medical training websites that can deal with two of probably the most urgent challenges in well being care – a scarcity of numerous clinicians and the necessity for extra equitable well being care. The announcement launches the primary section of the More in Common Alliance, a 10-year, $100 million initiative to extend cultural competency and broaden illustration to enhance each entry and high quality of care sufferers obtain.
First section websites embrace undergraduate coaching alternatives at CommonSpirit hospitals in Chattanooga, Tenn., Lexington, Ky., and Seattle, Wash., and post-graduate residencies and fellowships in California in Bakersfield, Los Angeles, Santa Cruz, and Ventura County.
The first section additionally introduces an id for the partnership, which launched in December 2020, because the More in Common Alliance, as a result of analysis demonstrates that sufferers constantly fare higher when handled by clinicians of comparable backgrounds who share lived experiences. The More in Common Alliance will broaden illustration by rising medical training alternatives for extra Black, Indigenous and folks of colour (BIPOC) – serving to Morehouse School of Medicine double undergraduate enrollment and rising the variety of post-graduate residency and fellowship slots. The goal is to help a pipeline of scholars recruited from communities experiencing a scarcity of suppliers. Today, a mere 5% of practising physicians are Black.
“We know that, statistically and anecdotally, patients have better outcomes when treated by a clinician who comes from a similar background,” mentioned Morehouse School of Medicine President and CEO Valerie Montgomery Rice, MD. “Yet, in the medical field, there are far too few providers from underrepresented groups, and the impact that has on patient care is astounding. Through the More in Common Alliance, our aim is to change the math and the face of health care in the U.S.”
The first location in Chattanooga at CHI Memorial Hospital accepted undergraduate medical and doctor assistant college students in September 2021. Undergraduate coaching websites at St. Joseph Hospital in Lexington and Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle are slated to open in Spring 2022. The More in Common Alliance can be initiating the accreditation course of to ascertain new graduate medical applications in three areas in California, and transferring tutorial sponsorship for an present program in Los Angeles. With Morehouse School of Medicine as the educational sponsor of those applications, post-graduate residents and fellows will profit from coaching centered on well being inequities and the wants of underserved sufferers.
“We’ve chosen our first phase sites based upon community need and the ability to launch programs rapidly in response to this vital need,” mentioned CommonSpirit Health CEO Lloyd H. Dean. “In the midst of a global pandemic, we’ve been able to accomplish so much in such a short period of time. Not just because we wanted to, but because our communities couldn’t wait.”
Morehouse School of Medicine and CommonSpirit Health are uniquely positioned to impression well being fairness by way of training and coaching alternatives, and improved entry and care supply. While there are 155 accredited medical colleges within the U.S., Morehouse School of Medicine and the opposite three traditionally Black medical colleges produce nearly all of the nation’s Black physicians. CommonSpirit Health, one of many largest well being techniques in America, serves a few of the most numerous communities within the nation and is a number one supplier of Medicaid providers.
“Building a more diverse health care system means identifying challenges and creating solutions to support clinicians throughout their journey from student to licensed professional,” mentioned Dean. “We hope more health systems and graduate medical programs can use this model to ensure more qualified students have opportunities to graduate and serve communities where they are desperately needed.”
The collaboration will prolong to growing analysis applications to impression diseases that disproportionately have an effect on minority and underserved communities. Morehouse School of Medicine, a recipient of a $40 million COVID-19 Resiliency Network grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has been on the forefront of biomedical and medical analysis initiatives to deal with illnesses that disproportionately have an effect on minority communities.
“The More in Common Alliance is the perfect example of what can happen when two health care organizations, devoted to the creation and advancement of health equity in underserved communities, come together,” Dr. Montgomery Rice mentioned.
Learn extra concerning the More in Common Alliance: www.moreincommonalliance.org
About More in Common Alliance
The More in Common Alliance is a partnership between Morehouse School of Medicine and CommonSpirit Health. Morehouse School of Medicine is a traditionally Black medical college and one in every of America’s main educators of main care physicians, and CommonSpirit Health is one in every of America’s largest well being techniques with areas in 21 states from coast to coast. Knowing sufferers constantly fare higher when handled by clinicians of comparable backgrounds who share lived experiences, the More in Common Alliance seeks to deal with vital gaps in care by rising cultural competency and increasing illustration. Together, we’re main a 10-year, $100-million initiative to broaden undergraduate and graduate medical training to construct a extra numerous and dynamic workforce that displays the communities we serve.
About CommonSpirit Health
CommonSpirit Health is a nonprofit, Catholic well being system devoted to advancing well being for all individuals. It was created in February 2019 by Catholic Health Initiatives and Dignity Health. With its nationwide workplace in Chicago and a group of over 150,000 staff and 25,000 physicians and superior follow clinicians, CommonSpirit operates 140 hospitals and greater than 1,500 care websites throughout 21 states. In FY 2021, CommonSpirit had revenues of $33.three billion and supplied $5.1 billion in charity care, neighborhood profit, and unreimbursed authorities applications. Learn extra at www.commonspirit.org.
About Morehouse School of Medicine
Founded in 1975, Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) is among the many nation’s main educators of main care physicians, biomedical scientists, and public well being professionals. An unbiased and personal historically-Black medical college, MSM was acknowledged by the Annals of Internal Medicine because the nation’s primary medical college in fulfilling a social mission—the creation and development of well being fairness. MSM college and alumni are famous for excellence in instructing, analysis, and public coverage, in addition to distinctive affected person care. MSM is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award doctoral and grasp’s levels. To study extra about applications and donate right this moment, please go to www.msm.edu or name 404-752-1500.
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