Spokane Teaching Health Center

What Spokane Teaching Health Center does

Spokane Teaching Health Center (STHC) is a 501c nonprofit organization founded in 2013 as a joint venture between Providence Health Care and Washington State University Health Sciences Spokane. The organization was created to capture a federal Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) grant aimed at expanding primary care residency positions in Eastern Washington, an area with a critical shortage of residency slots. STHC operates ACGME-accredited graduate medical education programs including a three-year Family Medicine Residency (with Spokane Training Track and Rural Training Track variants), a three-year Internal Medicine Residency (10 positions/year), and a one-year Transitional Year Residency, plus specialized fellowships in Obstetrics and Clinician Teaching, and a Primary Care Track within Internal Medicine. The organization also operates the Spokane Teaching Health Clinic, a 42,000-square-foot facility opened in 2016 with 56 exam rooms, 3 procedure suites, 6 counseling rooms, simulation labs with robotic manikins, and integrated Epic EMR across all clinical sites.

STHC trains residents through a distributed network spanning the 672-bed Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center (a Level II Trauma Center serving Washington, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Canada), Mann-Grandstaff VA Hospital, MultiCare Deaconess, and rural critical access hospitals in Colville, Chewelah, and Kettle Falls. The Spokane catchment area covers 1.5 million+ people, with a particular focus on underserved urban and rural populations including Medicaid, Medicare, uninsured, and sliding-scale fee-for-service patients. The center's Rural Training Track, established in 1986, is the longest operating rural family medicine training program in the country, with over 80% of graduates practicing rural medicine.

Revenue is generated through two principal streams: HRSA-funded graduate medical education payments supporting residency expansion, and patient care services delivered by residents under faculty supervision at the Spokane Teaching Health Clinic. Resident recruitment follows the standard national process via ERAS and NRMP, with virtual interviews and program signaling. STHC maintains academic partnerships with the University of Washington School of Medicine, Gonzaga University, WSU Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences, and Eastern Washington University for medical student rotations and interprofessional training.

Name

Spokane Teaching Health Center

Legal name

Spokane Teaching Health Center

Website

https://www.spokaneteachinghealth.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Spokane Teaching Health Center is a 501c nonprofit joint venture of Providence Health Care and WSU Health Sciences Spokane that operates ACGME-accredited residency and fellowship programs and runs the 42,000-square-foot Spokane Teaching Health Clinic serving underserved urban and rural populations across Eastern Washington and the Inland Northwest.

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Product category

Graduate Medical Education

NAICS

Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (6113), Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (611310)

SIC

Services-Offices & Clinics Of Doctors Of Medicine (8011), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Student Health & University Primary Care Clinics (HLAFAGAK)

akta.pro secondary industry

Academic Medical Centers (AMCs) & Teaching Hospitals (HLAFAAAA)

Keywords

• Graduate medical education
• Medical residency programs
• Primary care training
• Rural family medicine
• Teaching health clinic

Headquarters

HQ city

Spokane

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Healthcare Services Revenue: As a teaching health center, revenue is generated through patient care services provided by residents under faculty supervision at the Spokane Teaching Health Clinic. The clinic serves Medicaid, Medicare, private insurance, and sliding-scale fee-for-service patients.
2. Graduate Medical Education Funding: Funding from HRSA (Health Resources and Services Administration) grant to expand primary care residency positions. Joint venture between Providence Health Care and Washington State University Health Sciences Spokane.

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Core offering

Spokane Teaching Health Center is a 501c nonprofit that operates ACGME-accredited graduate medical education programs (Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Transitional Year residencies, plus fellowship and sub-internship tracks) and runs the Spokane Teaching Health Clinic, where residents deliver primary and behavioral healthcare to underserved populations under faculty supervision across urban Spokane and rural Northeast Washington sites.

Product overview

Spokane Teaching Health Center is a collaborative healthcare education institution offering a portfolio of ACGME-accredited medical residency and fellowship programs. The core offerings include Family Medicine Residency Spokane, Internal Medicine Residency Spokane, and Transitional Year Residency Spokane. The institution operates the Spokane Teaching Health Clinic, a 42,000-square-foot state-of-the-art facility where residents gain hands-on clinical experience. Sub-products include specialized tracks such as the Rural Training Track (with training in Colville/Chewelah), Spokane Training Track, Obstetrics Fellowship, Clinician Teacher Fellowship, Primary Care Track, and various sub-internship/clerkship programs for medical students. These programs work together to address healthcare workforce needs in underserved urban and rural communities across Eastern Washington.

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Products and services

• Family Medicine Residency Spokane A three-year ACGME-accredited residency program training physicians in comprehensive family medicine, including obstetrics, inpatient, and outpatient care across diverse patient populations. Accepts 6 residents per year for the Spokane program.
• Internal Medicine Residency Spokane A three-year categorical program offering comprehensive training in adult medicine with focus on clinical excellence and compassionate care, accepting 10 residents per year and 2 clinician-teacher fellows annually.
• Transitional Year Residency Spokane A one-year ACGME-accredited program providing broad clinical exposure for physicians preparing to enter advanced specialty programs such as anesthesiology, radiology, or dermatology.
• Spokane Teaching Health Clinic A state-of-the-art primary care clinic where residents gain supervised hands-on clinical experience while delivering full-spectrum family medicine, internal medicine, behavioral health, women's health, geriatrics, chronic disease management, and preventive care to Medicaid, Medicare, private insurance, and sliding-scale fee-for-service patients.
• Rural Training Track (RTT) A three-year family medicine residency where residents spend the first year in Spokane followed by two years of immersive training in northeast Washington communities such as Colville or Chewelah, preparing graduates to practice comprehensive family medicine in rural settings.
• Spokane Training Track A three-year family medicine residency based entirely in Spokane, providing training in an urban underserved setting with collaboration among multiple residencies.
• Obstetrics Fellowship A one-year fellowship offering training in surgical obstetrics, high-risk pregnancy management, and cesarean sections for family physicians seeking enhanced OB skills.
• Clinician Teacher Fellowship A one-year post-residency program for developing medical teaching skills, including attending on wards and clinic, leading lectures, and developing research projects for careers in academic medicine.
• Primary Care Track A two-year track embedded within the Internal Medicine Residency program that prepares graduates for ambulatory practice with focused didactics, mentorship, and additional General Internal Medicine exposure.
• 4th Year Clerkship (Internal Medicine) A 4-week sub-internship for medical students offering ward sub-internship, ICU sub-internship, infectious disease consult service, and nephrology consult service rotations.
• Family Medicine Sub-Internship A four-week fourth-year clerkship featuring two weeks in the residency clinic and two weeks on the family medicine inpatient service for hands-on resident-level responsibilities.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 80% of Rural Training Track graduates practice in rural medicine
• +3 more outcomes

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Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and secondary.

• Providence Health CarecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2013Joint venture partner with Washington State University Health Sciences Spokane. Providence Health Care operates the major hospital rotation sites including Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Mount Carmel Hospital. Provides institutional sponsorship and administrative infrastructure for residency programs.
• Washington State University Health Sciences SpokanecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2013Joint venture partner with Providence Health Care. WSU College of Medicine inaugural class of 60 students started August 2017. WSU Pharmacy students provide patient education and assist resident physicians. WSU medical students work in the clinic during their M3 year.
• University of Washington School of MedicinecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerUW provides medical school training for 60 students in Spokane on the Gonzaga University campus. The clinic serves as an M3 training site. IMRS is an affiliated residency program with access to UW's online medical library including UpToDate and Dynamed.
• Gonzaga UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGonzaga University campus hosts the University of Washington medical school students. Part of the University District collaborative environment. Gonzaga University and UW partnership for medical education.
• Eastern Washington UniversitysecondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerEWU Masters of Social Work students learn all aspects of their profession and are an integral part of each of the three medical teams in the clinic.
• Mann-Grandstaff VA HospitalsecondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerVA Medical Center rotation site providing clinical training for residents. Focus on primary and secondary care, preventive health, and chronic disease management for veterans.
• MultiCare Health System (Deaconess Hospital)secondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerDeaconess Multicare serves as a key clinical training site for medical residents offering hands-on experience in internal medicine, surgery, emergency care, and more.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Sea Mar Community Health Centers: Washington-state FQHC network providing primary care and operating residency/fellowship training programs with a focus on Latino and underserved communities — comparable to STHC in scale, mission, and Washington-state community health center teaching model.
• HealthPoint: Washington-state FQHC operating primary care clinics and Graduate Medical Education programs in the Puget Sound region — comparable to STHC as a Washington community health center with teaching programs focused on primary care for underserved populations.
• Cherokee Health Systems: Tennessee-based community health system operating Teaching Health Center residencies with an integrated behavioral health model and strong rural/underserved focus — comparable to STHC in integrating primary care, behavioral health, and graduate medical education.
• Community Health Center, Inc. Connecticut-based Federally Qualified Health Center and one of the largest Teaching Health Centers in the US, operating multiple residency and fellowship programs in an integrated primary care setting — directly comparable to STHC's teaching health center model.
• Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic: Washington-state FQHC operating a Teaching Health Center residency program serving largely Hispanic and agricultural underserved populations in Eastern Washington — comparable as a Pacific Northwest THC with a similar mission of training primary care physicians for underserved communities.
• El Rio Community Health Center: Arizona-based FQHC operating Teaching Health Center residency programs serving diverse underserved populations — directly comparable to STHC as a community-based primary care teaching health center with ACGME-accredited programs.

Broad incumbents

• MultiCare Health System: Washington-state integrated health system operating Deaconess Hospital in Spokane as a STHC rotation site. Operates its own GME programs but is a broader health system rather than a focused teaching health center.
• Providence Health & Services: Large multi-state Catholic health system and joint venture parent of STHC. Operates numerous GME programs across its hospitals but is a broad incumbent rather than a teaching-health-center specialist.
• University of Washington School of Medicine: Academic partner to STHC and operator of its own WWAMI regional medical education program including Spokane-based training. Comparable as an academic medical institution with primary care training across the Pacific Northwest.
• WSU Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine: Washington State University's medical school and STHC joint venture parent. Comparable as a newer MD-granting institution building primary care and rural health training programs in the same Pacific Northwest geography.

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Key risks6 records

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