Fed Money for More Medical Residents

from yesterday's inbox:

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell today announced $83.4 million in Affordable Care Act funding to support primary care residency programs in 60 Teaching Health Centers across the nation. The funding will help train more than 550 residents during the 2014-2015 academic year, increasing the number of residents trained in the previous academic year by more than 200 and helping to increase access to health care in communities across the country.

Created by the Affordable Care Act, the Teaching Health Center Program expands residency training in community-based settings. Residents will be trained in family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, psychiatry, geriatrics, and general dentistry.

Pennsylvania institutions receiving grants:

Cornerstone Care, Inc.	Family Medicine	Greensboro	PA	$1,200,000
Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education	Internal Medicine	Scranton	PA	$5,250,000
Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education *	Geriatrics	Scranton	PA	$300,000
Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education/A.T. Still	Family Medicine	Scranton	PA	$6,300,000
Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education/Wilkes-Barre	Family Medicine	Scranton	PA	$1,950,000