WASHINGTON – Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell this week 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.
Primary Health Care, Inc. of Des Moines will receive $3,000,000 for an internal medicine program.
“The Affordable Care Act supports the training of new primary care physicians through the Teaching Health Center program,” Secretary Burwell said. “Today’s announcement demonstrates the continued growth of this program to help prepare even more physicians to provide primary care in communities across the country.”
Today’s awards expand the number of states with Teaching Health Centers from 21 to 24. Teaching Health Centers are located in a variety of settings, including urban, rural, and tribal communities, and serve diverse populations.
“This program not only provides training to primary care medical and dental residents, but also galvanizes communities,” said HRSA Administrator Mary K. Wakefield, Ph.D., R.N. “It brings hospitals, academic centers, health centers, and community organizations together to provide top-notch medical education and services in areas of the country that need them most.”
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Iowa rates are predicted to double next year. It should be named the unaffordable care act. I hope all you one issue voters who bought Osama obamas line of crap enjoy paying your out of control rates. Oh I forgot most of you are non working blood suckers getting it for free .
Blood suckers? You’re the one who wanted to give the military industrial complex 4 trillion dollars for Iraq to get nothing. You’re the one who supports US companies having offshore corporations to escape US tax. If you’re GOP, that’s you.
@Nature Boy-You need to grow up and get your facts straight. There are more rich democrats than there are republicans and the democrats voted to go into Iraq too. They also own oil. That has nothing to do with the fiasco called the ACA (or as most people prefer Obama care. You have been screwed by the idiot you voted in and that is bad enough, but you are to damn dumb to admit it.
It comes down to pride. They vote for someone and no matter what that person does after that, they figure if they voted for them they must be doing right.
This is Bull Crap-More wasteful spending by the Nanny State.