Mercy Fort Smith will welcome its first internal medicine and family medicine residents this summer.
The new residency programs, the result of a collaboration with the Arkansas Colleges of Health Education, are set to begin July 1. A $1.3 million donation from ACHE and the Degen Foundation is funding the programs, designed to help retain doctors in the River Valley while boosting the hospital’s staffing.
The Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine is the sponsoring institution, and the programs have received accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. With the significant physician shortage in our community, a new graduate medical program will help us to grow our own, said John Sealey, DO, associate dean of clinical medicine at ARCOM, in a news release. Statistics indicate that 75% of individuals who study and then train in a location will stay in that area. These new physicians tend to be young and at a point where they are planting roots.
From Staff Reports
Arkansas Colleges of Health Education (ACHE) announces the upcoming retirement of Thomas H. Webb Jr., chief operating officer, and Dennis Bauer, chief financial officer, two of ACHE’s founding members of the senior leadership team.
In a news release, CEO Kyle D. Parker, JD, stated, “Tom and Dennis have been an important part of the financial planning, construction of facilities and subsequent execution of various physical and academic projects of the Arkansas Colleges of Health Education since 2014. Ever since the sale of Sparks Health System in 2009, these two have been an integral part of the vision of ACHE and its colleges and programs. I am proud to call these exceptional men my friends.”
Send The Degen Foundation has awarded a $193,553 grant to the Arkansas Colleges of Health Education that will be used to purchase equipment for its Sterilization Core Research Facility in the new ACHE Research Institute Health and Wellness Center.
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