Medical Education/Teaching Hospitals
Teaching hospitals train future health care professionals, conduct medical research and fulfill a distinct and vital role in delivering patient care. While many hospitals offer comprehensive care, our nation’s 1,041 teaching hospitals also deliver sophisticated diagnostic and treatment services
There are over 1,000 teaching hospitals that directly employ 2.7 million people and are among the largest employers in their communities.Engaging Teaching Hospital Leaders
The Health Resources and Services Administration this week awarded $285 million to 58 children’s hospitals through its Children’s Hospitals Graduate Medical Education payment program in fiscal year 2017. “CHGME funding enables hospitals to train pediatric residents to meet the needs of our…
Please contact your legislators and urge them to co-sponsor the Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2017 (S. 1301/H.R. 2267).
Residents in graduate medical education training remain concentrated in the Northeast and urban areas, despite some growth in other regions and rural areas between 2005 and 2015, according to a report released today by the Government Accountability Office.
AHA letter to Senator Bill Nelson expressing support for Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2017 (S. 1301).
AHA letter expressing support for the Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Act of 2017.