How community/non-academic hospitals view residency programs

[cbrons]

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Well how do community hospitals view residency programs? DO they typically like having them? Do residents make the hospital money relative to how much it costs to train them? Is it a pain to keep up with ACGME standards? Etc. etc.

 

[Kaustikos]

Well how do community hospitals view residency programs? DO they typically like having them? Do residents make the hospital money relative to how much it costs to train them? Is it a pain to keep up with ACGME standards? Etc. etc.

I've found to be hit/miss. The site I did my first two years was community based in residency. Some programs welcomed residents with open arms whereas others have refused to accept them, like surgery which was finally okay with the prospect. Which I would've enjoyed since my rotations there as a student were awesome and let me do so much. Being first assist on procedures was so great. But ****ty when I came back here and put back into reality lol.

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[Arden_28]

im curious to know this too... im sure residents make the hospital money

 

[pulmoblast]

Hospitals are paid something like $100-120K/yr/resident for teaching/having residents. The hospital pays resident something around $50K/yr as salary. The rest are "administrative costs". The amount they are paid by CMS is determined by how many Medicare/Medicaid patients they service and what's the payer mix. Hospital admins have to figure out the sweet balance between the payer mix and case load, faculty pay and resident pay to make a killing.

 

[Siggy]

Also, for community programs, you now have your physicians for covering the medicade/medicare/charity patients as well as in house 24/7 coverage for things like codes, rapid responses, and ICU coverage.