MBCHC Clinical Campus
Sponsored by MBCHC and Academic Hospital Affiliates
What is a FQHC?
Federally-Qualified Health Centers, also known as Community Health Centers, make up the largest national network of primary care providers. Most community health center patients have low incomes, are uninsured or publicly insured, and are members of racial/ethnic minority groups. The recently enacted healthcare reform package includes $11 billion in new, dedicated funding for Health Centers Programs over five years. $9.5 billion of these resources will fund new health centers for communities in need and expand capacity at existing health centers. By 2015, health centers will double their current capacity to 40 million patients. The remaining $1.5 billion in capital funding will allow health centers to modernize their aging buildings and build new facilities to serve even more patients.
How does MBCHC overcome barriers to care?
MBCHC removes common barriers to care by serving communities that
otherwise confront financial, geographic, language, cultural and other
barriers, making them different from most private, office-based
physicians, while providing care utilizing state of the art technology
which is 100% patient centered.
- We are located in high-need areas identified by the federal government as having elevated poverty, higher than average infant mortality, and where few physicians practice;
- We are open to all residents, regardless of insurance status, and provide free or reduced cost care based on ability to pay;
- We offer services that help patients access healthcare, such as transportation, translation, case management, health education, and home visitation;
- We tailor our services to fit the special needs and priorities of our communities, and provide services in a linguistically and culturally appropriate setting. It has been our experience that nearly a third of all patients are best served in languages other than English, and nearly all patients report their clinician speaks the same language they do.
For many of our patients, MBCHC is the only source of healthcare services available. In fact, the number of uninsured patients at health centers like MBCHC has doubled.
As part of its Mission Statement MBCHC has not wavered in its continued commitment to accommodate and to train medical students, residents and fellows. On August of 2009, MBCHC began to analyze and explore the possibility of becoming an academic teaching site with the intention to position itself as a premier academic FQHC.
MBCH anticipates that the afiliation with our academic partners will be a key component to create an Accountable Care Organization which is the path to a medical home, a New paradigm in healthcare.
MBCHC is a healthcare enterprise committed to offering an attractive and unique training environment that is 100% patient centric, offering some of the best and evolving models of care to both medical students and residents.
Since August of 2009 MBCHC has expanded and formalized its academic partnerships and affiliations with Miami Children's Hospital, Mount Sinai Medical Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and the Jackson Health System / Public Health Trust.
These new academic partnerships have allowed MBCHC to expand its residency and clinical rotations as an ACGME (Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education) training site (These steps are key to our strategy in further enhancing MBCHC's clinical reputation and set us apart from other FQHC’s at a national level) and key component to our strategy to become a THC (Teaching Health Center) under Title VII.
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In September of 2010 MBCHC obtained approval and certification by the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) a certified official testing site. The NBME develops and manages the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE). While the individual state's licensing boards grant the license to practice medicine, all medical boards in the US accept a passing score on the USMLE as evidence that an applicant demonstrates the core competencies to practice medicine. As a result, healthcare consumers throughout the nation enjoy a high degree of confidence that their doctors have met a common standard. The NBME and the Federation of State Medical Boards co- sponsor the USMLE, and the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) is the third collaborator in the USMLE program.
The Medical Education and Academic Clinical Affairs Department at Miami Beach Community Healthcare Center has more than tripled in size. The medical education program has been expanding daily. Our goal by the end of 2012 is to have at least 50 students rotating in each specialty every 12 weeks. At the rate our program has been progressing, it is possible that MBCHC could become the first FQHC to offer a medical training campus before the end of the year.
MBCHC Teaching Faculty Network consists of more than 70 Board Certified Physicians and Allied Health Professionals and over 10 Hospitals. Collectively all of these individuals and other professionals at these sites are responsible to mentor, proctor and teach our medical students, residents and fellows.
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Stats for 2009 (Audited)
