OB/GYN Residency Program Clinic Case Statement

Obstetrics and Gynecology (OB/GYN) Residency Program Clinic

Women’s health care services for all ages.

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infant deliveries per month on average at Marian during 2024 (highest number on the Central Coast).

Marian’s record for deliveries in one year is 3,290.

Marian Regional Medical Center’s Obstetrics and Gynecology (OB/GYN) Residency Program continues to advance our organization’s healing mission by providing women’s health care services to local women of all ages. OB/GYNs are not just physicians for pregnancy; they are physicians for women at every stage of life, from adolescence on.

THE CHALLENGE The OB/GYN Residency Program has flourished over the past five years, and the program is now at a crucial point where there is a need to grow by opening a standalone OB/GYN Residency Program Clinic.

Marian continues to have the region’s busiest emergency department and the highest number of infant deliveries.

Establishing a permanent home for the OB/GYN Residency Program, which trains physician residents to provide essential prenatal, perinatal, and postpartum services to thousands of Central Coast residents, will help alleviate a nationwide and local shortage of OB/GYN physicians—a shortfall that is expected to reach 22,000 physicians in the U.S. by 2050, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

Furthermore, the Santa Maria Valley currently has 12 Dignity Health OB/GYNs for a population of 250,000.

California has a projected shortage of more than 1,000 OB/GYN physicians by 2030. The ideal ratio of OB/GYNs in our community is 14 per 100,000 people. The number of OB/ GYNs in the US is limited by the number of residency spots that are nationally available.

Gynecologist shortage

THE VISION The continued success of the OB/GYN Residency Program will provide a pipeline to recruit and retain OB/GYN physicians in the Santa Maria Valley and Central Coast.

The OB/GYN Residency Program Clinic will also provide women’s health care services to a vastly diverse and medically vulnerable patient population.

The OB/GYN Residency Program Clinic will offer a wide array of services, including birthing education, postpartum and lactation support, perinatal mood disorder support, early parenting support, nutrition counseling, women’s preventive

Why does OB/GYN Residency need a clinic and educational space?

PATIENT ACCESS The clinic will increase access for local patients. Population is projected to increase 30% by 2050.

The clinic will be staffed by OB/GYN and Family MediPHYSICAL cine residents, superSPACE SIMULATION vised by experienced OUTGROWN TRAINING OB/GYN teaching The program needs a An integral part of modern faculty. larger space to meet the medical education. The educational needs of new clinic will have space our residents, medical for simulation equipment students, faculty, and for OB/GYN and Family other learners.

Medicine residents.

IMPROVED RESIDENT EDUCATION

PATIENT

Physician residents will have a dediEDUCATION cated clinic space for resident teaching, Designated spaces state-of-the-art medical imaging will be available CLINICAL equipment, simulation training, and for group teaching INNOVATION teaching space for outpatient sessions with our procedures—in short, greatly Continuous quality improvepatients. expanded women’s health ment is a key aspect of residency care training. training and education. The new clinic will allow programs for improved clinical care pathways and efficiencies. We’ll share these future innovations nationally through publications and research and locally with our community physician partners.

care, as well as acute and chronic management of gynecologic conditions. A significant benefit of this clinic will be the addition of translators in Spanish and Mixteco languages. Once open, the new, 8,700-square-foot OB/ GYN Residency Program Clinic will be operated by the Pacific Central Coast Health Centers.

The Marian Regional Medical Center Foundation’s fundraising goal of $3.8 million will support the OB/GYN Residency Program Clinic’s equipment needs and construction costs.

What is an OB/GYN physician?

An OB/GYN physician specializes in women’s health care, extensively trained in providing Obstetrics, Gynecology, and women’s primary care. They are trained to provide both medical management and are trained as obstetric and gynecologic surgeons. OB/GYN physicians are the sole primary care providers for many women.

Why did Marian Regional Medical Center start an OB/GYN residency program?

Marian Regional Medical Center began the OB/GYN Residency

What is a resident?

Physicians complete a residency training program after medical school in a chosen specialty to become an independently practicing physician. To become an OB/ GYN physician, residents must complete 4 years of training (approximately 14,000 hours) in the medical and surgical management of women’s health conditions.

Program in 2018 to address our local shortage of OB/GYNs. Our OB/GYN Residency Program has a total of 12 residents (a fouryear program with three residents per year). Studies indicate that residents tend to practice near the hospitals where they train (77.8% of residents who train in California will stay in California, and 56% of residents will stay within 100 miles of where they train [AAFP, 2013]).

The OB/GYN Residency Program has already been successful in recruiting our graduates to stay and practice in our community.

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About Marian Regional Medical Center

About Pacific Central Coast Health Centers

Marian Regional Medical Center is a state-of-the-art, 191-bed medical center located in Santa Maria, California. The modern facility is home to a broad array of services including a level II trauma center, a level III neonatal intensive care unit, a nationally recognized cardiac care center, and boasts the Central Coast’s only Comprehensive Community Cancer Program as recognized by the Commission on Cancer. Marian has been recognized for quality and patient safety and named one of America’s 250 Best Hospitals by Healthgrades®.

Dignity Health’s Pacific Central Coast Health Centers (PHC) is a non-profit community clinic organization comprised of nearly 50 health centers located primarily from Templeton to Lompoc; we also have health centers in Bakersfield and Ventura. Our experienced physicians and advanced practice providers offer a wide range of primary and specialty care services. PHC is a part of Dignity Health Central Coast’s award-winning network of outstanding hospitals, imaging centers, laboratories, and post-acute services.

References: https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/america-s-medical-residents-numbers-0 https://www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/issues/2013/1115/p704.html https://bhw.hrsa.gov/sites/default/files/bureau-health-workforce/data-research/projections-supplydemand-2018-2030.pdf http://www.sbcag.org/uploads/2/4/5/4/24540302/forecast_2050_draft.pdf

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