{"id":22116,"date":"2024-03-05T16:13:11","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T21:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=22116"},"modified":"2024-03-05T16:13:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T21:13:12","slug":"sen-ossoff-delivering-new-resources-to-strengthen-pediatric-health-care","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-delivering-new-resources-to-strengthen-pediatric-health-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ossoff Delivering New Resources to Strengthen Pediatric Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Sen. Ossoff previously led&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/22.05.13_FY23-LHHS-GA-Delegation-CHGME-Letter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>bipartisan, bicameral push<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;to fully fund the Children\u2019s Hospital Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) program<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>CHGME program provides funds for teaching hospitals to train&nbsp;pediatric&nbsp;physicians<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>New round of funding comes after Sen. Ossoff announced a previous round of CHGME funding in&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-delivering-resources-to-strengthen-pediatric-health-care\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>December 2023<\/em><\/a><em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Atlanta, Ga<\/strong>. \u2014&nbsp;U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is delivering additional Federal resources to train more pediatric health care workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Ossoff is delivering&nbsp;$1,205,656 in&nbsp;Federal funding through the Children\u2019s Hospital Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) program to help Egleston Children\u2019s Hospital at Emory University train and retain&nbsp;more pediatric&nbsp;physicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The funding will allow the hospital to pay for resident and faculty salaries and resident training programs. This program trains&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bhw.hrsa.gov\/funding\/apply-grant\/childrens-hospitals-graduate-medical-education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">56%<\/a>&nbsp;of all general pediatric residents and over half (54%) of all pediatric sub-specialty residents and fellows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Health Resources and Services Administration, approximately&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bhw.hrsa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/bureau-health-workforce\/data-research\/childrens-hospital-graduate-medical-education-annual-report-2021-2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">60%<\/a>&nbsp;of physicians trained through the CHGME program chose to remain and practice in the state where they completed their residency training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf you have a child experiencing a medical emergency, you need to be able to count on the&nbsp;health&nbsp;system having specialists available to save your child\u2019s life,\u201d<strong>&nbsp;Sen. Ossoff said.&nbsp;<\/strong>\u201cI brought Republicans and Democrats together to help train more&nbsp;pediatricians, emergency doctors, and specialists in Georgia to keep our kids safe and&nbsp;healthy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Ossoff continues to advocate for Georgia\u2019s children and their access to critical medical&nbsp;care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Ossoff previously led a&nbsp;successful&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/22.05.13_FY23-LHHS-GA-Delegation-CHGME-Letter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bipartisan, bicameral push<\/a>&nbsp;alongside Congressman Barry Loudermilk (GA-11) to ensure the CHGME program received strong funding in Fiscal Year 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In December, Sen. Ossoff\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-delivering-resources-to-strengthen-pediatric-health-care\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">delivered<\/a>\u00a0a previous round of Federal funding through the Children\u2019s Hospital Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) program to help Egleston Children\u2019s Hospital at Emory University and Scottish Rite Children\u2019s Medical Center\u00a0train and retain\u00a0pediatric\u00a0physicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"># # #<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Ossoff previously led&nbsp;bipartisan, bicameral push&nbsp;to fully fund the Children\u2019s Hospital Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) program CHGME program provides funds for teaching hospitals to train&nbsp;pediatric&nbsp;physicians New round of funding comes after Sen. Ossoff announced a previous round of CHGME funding in&nbsp;December 2023 Atlanta, Ga. \u2014&nbsp;U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is delivering additional Federal resources to train [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22116","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/22116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/22116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22118,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/22116\/revisions\/22118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}