St. Joseph Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program Announces First Class of Residents
This is a press release from St. Joseph Health:
Eureka, CA – The St. Joseph Hospital of Eureka Family Medicine Residency Program, a medical training alliance between St. Joseph Hospital and Open Door Community Health Centers, announced today it “matched” all six of its available resident physician training positions to applicants seeking residency in the brand new program scheduled to begin in July of this year. Five of the six residents matched are from California, including physicians from Humboldt and Sonoma Counties.
Match Day, the term used to describe the day graduating medical students from across the United States find out where they will continue their medical careers, is a culmination of extensive interviews for both applicants and residency programs. The St. Joseph Hospital of Eureka Family Medicine Residency program reviewed approximately 700 applications and conducted over 100 interviews.
“As someone who personally experienced the anticipation and excitement of Match Day, I can relate to the emotions our new residents are feeling today,” said Roberta Luskin-Hawk, M.D., chief executive, St. Joseph Health, Humboldt County. “We are thrilled at the response we’ve received and feel confident that it is indicative of our dedicated leadership, passionate faculty and trusted partners responsible for educating the next generation of primary care providers.”
The family medicine residency program represents a transformational moment for the medical community on the North Coast. Core faculty from Open Door Community Health Centers, specialists from St. Joseph Health Medical Group, select independent physicians affiliated with St. Joseph Hospital and hospital leaders, will collaborate to educate the new physicians.
The program will have a holistic primary care focus, with an emphasis on rural family medicine. Residents will have a unique opportunity to immerse themselves in rural medicine, and live as an integral member of the community.
In addition to experiencing the full spectrum of family care, residents will receive training in complex, hospital-based medical care and will also work with community based services, including, home health, hospice and support services.
During their training, resident physicians will be available to see patients under the supervision of the faculty, and after their three years of training, national statistics suggest many will stay within 50 miles of their residency location. By 2021, the program will feature a total of 18 residents in training.
“We see this program as not only a critical way to build the ranks of our local physician population, but an opportunity to leverage the exceptional professional experience of local physicians and teach
the next generation of physician leaders in Humboldt County,” added May Hong, MD, program director, St. Joseph Hospital of Eureka Family Medicine Residency Program.
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🕯Good info.👍🏾
While it is well that St Joseph’s is trying to repair its image in Humboldt, we would appreciate very much more St Joseph’s organizational approach to move away from employees being terminated randomly and without apparent cause. We would also appreciate St Joseph’s making a move towards:
1) Adequate staffing, using trained, licensed, competent persons, in every role and in every department.
2) Hire and support managers that are honest, constructive, reasonable, level, and qualified.
3) Give people benefited positions, and abandon your policy of hiring new employees as per-diems.
4) Offer competitive salaries and benefits. Negotiate with your employees.
5) Make an effort to maintain safe, modern, and well equipped working conditions, as required by federal and state law.
6) HR policies should be progressive, and all encounters with potential employees should be fair, according to applicable law. St Joseph’s HR department should never look like it is not interested or biased against any person. Make every effort to hire open positions from the applicants available, and stop using non-citizen and other “travelers”.
7) Screen existing employees regularly to detect drug use, alcohol abuse, personal issues and mental health disorders. When people work in a hospital, someone should care! Send affected persons to counseling, rehab, and refer to services, don’t just fire people.
8) Carefully monitor the activities of “Compliance” personnel, to insure they are operating legally and with fairness. Nobody has the right to accuse without proof.
Working for St Joseph’s should be focused on community service, and patient care.
Currently, I would call St Joseph’s a very poor quality employer, and overall, “poor quality employment”.
Best of luck, St Joseph’s, in your future endeavors. Residencies may help in the recruiting and retention of physicians, but this organization needs to improve in general attractiveness, overall image, culture and service.
I hope they are ‘first class” doctors, unlike my last encounter with a St Joe’s hire whose behavior was so egregious and my complaint so loud (with nurses to witness) he was fired
What happened?
Thanks.
This is a big deal for having sorely needed medical providers here in our community. A very big improvement.
Congratulations, Open Door!
I’m a poor medical school grad who’ll be applying to this program. I feel like a drop in the ocean of all the new grads applying. wish me luck!