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Outstanding Features of our Fellowship Program
- Faculty that have trained and served on leading geriatrics programs across the United States.
- Increased access to the Geriatric Loan Forgiveness Program for eligible fellows.
- Outstanding clinical opportunities for training including one of the original PACE sites in the United States.
- A state-of-the-art new outpatient facility
The SeniorSMARTTM Initiative. The South Carolina Center of Economic Excellence (CoEE), is helping turn those "what if" scenarios into reality. SeniorSMARTTM is the nation's only comprehensive research hub focusing on ways to maintain and improve seniors' intellectual activity, in-house safety and functionality, and mobility inside and outside the home.
The fellowship program in geriatrics at Palmetto Health Richland is affiliated with the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, and with teaching centers at:
- William Dorn Jennings Veterans Administration Medical Center
- Nursing Homes
-Agape Senior
-UniHealth Post Acute Care
-Heartland
-Country Woods
-Lowman Home - Palmetto SeniorCare
- HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital
- Senior Primary Care Practice
- Palmetto Health Richland Geriatric Services
- University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine - Geriatrics
This opportunity offers a broad range of training and practice for physicians who have completed a residency in Internal Medicine or Family Medicine who wish to specialize in the care and treatment of older patients.
Training in geriatrics brings together an understanding of:
- The physiology of aging
- The changing patterns of presentation and progression of disease related to aging
- The unique geriatric syndromes
- Comprehensive interdisciplinary care
- Integrating function and disease based management
In addition, it provides a focus on functional status and its integration into the care process and holistic approach to primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention. Fellows receive training from board-certified and fellowship-trained geriatricians in a variety of settings including short and long-term institutional care, ambulatory care, community based care, and well-elderly programs. Our faculty specifically includes:
- 18 Board Certified Geriatricians
- 2 PhDs
- 3 Board Certified Gerophysiatrists
- 1 Doctorate of Physical Therapy Faculty
- 1 Family Nurse Practitioner
2011 Published
- Leone, A. Improving Compliance: Does it Matter to Your Patients if You are Spiritual? The Journal of South Carolina Medical Association. Vo. 107: pg 14-19, April 2011.
- Matthews M. Hsy F, Walkup M, Barry L. Patel K, Blair S. Dpressive Symptoms and Physical Performance in the lifestyle Interventions and Independence for Elders Pilot (LIFE-P) Study. J am Geriatr Soc 59:495-500, 2011
- Wiley M, Ganholm A, Bachman D, Wieland D, Roberts E, Harden R, Dever-Bumba M, Eleazer G. Use of Seniors as Mentors to Medical students: A Collaboration between the University of SC. The Journal of the South Carolina Medical Association Vol 107 pg 14-18, Feb 2011.
Journals in Press
- Gajadhar R. Preventive Medicine Chapter, Oxford handbook of Geriatrics. Editor: S. Chris Durso, MD In Press
Under Review
- Fritz SL, Merlo-Rains A, River ED, Brandenburg B, Sweet J, Galloway-Coker D. Donley JW, Matthews H, deBode S, McClenaghan BA. Feasibility of Intensive Mobility Training as an Intervention for Improving Gait, Balance, and Mobility in Persons with Chronic Neurological Conditions: A Case Series, Submitted to Physical Therapy, July 2010.
- Huang CC, Wieland D, Amidon R. Predictors of entry into community based vs. nursing home care in a cohort of elderly nursing-home eligible Medicaid recipients in South Carolina.
- Krotish, DE, Krotish KT, Bowles, HR., Hooker S. (submitted). Disease Self-Management Practices. Lifestyle Behaviors, and Number of Physician Visits among Adults with Diabetes. Diabetes Care.
Awards
- American Geriatrics Society Annual Meeting, 2010 Jahnigan Award, May 2010, G. Paul Eleazer
Grants in Progress
- Porth J (PI). Practice Change Fellowship Grant: Implementing a Care Coordination Model for Older Adults within an Accountable Care Organization. September 2010 - August 2012, $95,000.
- Schumacher, S., Leone, A., Krotish, D., & Eleazer, P. Geriatric Ultrasound (GERI-US). (HRSA-Preventative Medicine). $250,000
- Hirth, V.A., Easterling, B., Haddock, S., Krotish, D., Huhns, M., Shin, J., Caicedo, J., & Ziehl, P. Improving Older Adult Safety through FREES: Fall Reduction in the Elderly using Electronic Sensors (Veterans Administration). $40,000.
- Hirth, V.A., Krotish, D., Huhns, M., Shin, J., Caicedo, J., & Ziehl, P. Improving Older Adult Safety through FREES: Fall Reduction in the Elderly using Electronic Sensors (Alzheimer's Association). $200,000.
- Eleazer GP, Dever-Bumba M, Wieland D, Hirth V et al. Next Steps in Physicians' Training in Geriatrics: Patient Safety and Care Transitions. DW Reynolds Foundation, $2million, 2011-15.
- Gajadhar, R. Geriatric Academic Career Award DHHS, Health Resources and Services Administration 9/2010- 9/2015.
2011 Best Doctors in the Midlands
- Tisha Boston, MD
Senior Primary Care Practice @ Palmetto Health Richland/CMP - Margaret Matthews, MD
Senior Primary Care Practice @ Palmetto Health Richland/CMP - Sarah Schumacher, DO
Senior Primary Care Practice Parkridge - G. Paul Eleazer, MD
Senior Primary Care Practice @ Palmetto Health Richland/CMP - Victor Hirth, MD
Senior Primary Care Practice @ Palmetto Health Richland/CMP - William C. Logan, MD
Senior Primary Care Practice @ Palmetto Health Richland/CMP - Margaret Matthews, MD
Senior Primary Care Practice @ Palmetto Health Richland/CMP - Chuck Petit, MD
Senior Primary Care Practice @ Palmetto Health Richland/CMP - Matthew Wisdom, MD
Senior Primary Care Practice @ Palmetto Health Richland/CMP - Scott Lamar, MD
Palmetto Health Richland Dept of FM - James G. Bouknight, MD
Division of Geriatric Psychiatry/USC School of Medicine - Paul Switzer, MD
Dorn VA Hospital/Geriatrics