Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Wright State’s Boonshoft School of Medicine and Premier Health last month announced a partnership establishing Miami Valley Hospital as an academic medical center, the full impacts of which are expected to be felt in the years to come.
The hospital system is anticipating new opportunities for growth and access to additional federal funding to bring physician residency programs to Upper Valley Medical Center in Troy and Atrium Medical Center in Middletown as part of this updated affiliation, further details of which are expected to come in the spring.
Premier Health also wants more health services to be closer to home for those in the Dayton region through this partnership, so patients wouldn’t need to travel to other metropolitan areas to other academic medical centers.
“Our biggest growth opportunity is to take care of patients who live in our communities, in our backyards today, and who are leaving to go to Columbus, Cincinnati and Cleveland, Indianapolis. And we want them to stay here, and there’s significant growth opportunity for that,” said Dr. Chad Whelan, president of Miami Valley Hospital and Premier Health’s chief operating officer.
There will be new federal dollars available to Premier for these residency programs as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid see those programs as investments, Whelan said.
They are also anticipating starting to receive funds from federally directed, payment-matching programs in 2024, he said, having worked closely with legislators in the state of Ohio.
