CHCF: Federal Cuts Threaten Teaching Health Centers and California's Rural Doctor Pipeline

California Health Care Foundation warns that proposed federal cuts would devastate Teaching Health Center residency programs that train primary care physicians specifically for under-resourced communities. The cuts would weaken graduate medical education and residency programs — including new medical schools and residencies in Chico and Redding backed in part by Prop 35 — that build a homegrown primary care pipeline for rural California, deepening the state’s existing primary care physician shortage.