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Retaining Healthcare Workers in Rural and Indigenous Communities | September 26, 2023

Date of Presentation: September 26, 2023

Type: Past Presentation  Training  

Audience: Clinical  

Program: Emergency Medicine with Rural and Indigenous Communities/IHS  

Keywords: #emergency department  #er  #healthcare roles  #positions  #recruitment  

In this series of presentations, Dr. Paul Charlton, IHS Chief Clinical Consultant for Emergency Medicine, and Dr. Christoper “Topher” Jentoft, Clinical Director at Chinle Health Care Center, lead a discussion focused on retaining healthcare workers in rural and Indigenous communities. The panel discusses how to best support existing staff, innovations at various sites that could be replicated elsewhere and identify shared challenges By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
1. Identify common challenges to retaining healthcare workers in rural and Indigenous communities
2. Increase their awareness of innovations at various rural, tribally-administered 638 emergency departments, and IHS EDs to improve retention
3. Prioritize promising interventions at their own facilities

Recording:

Presented by:

Paul Charlton, MD, MA | Topher Jentoft, MD

Paul Charlton, MD, MA works as an emergency medicine physician at the Gallup Indian Medical Center where he currently serves as the emergency department director. He completed medical school at Dartmouth and his residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of Washington/Harborview. Dr. Charlton also holds a master’s degree from Georgetown University in Conflict Resolution, which drives his motivation to improve health care systems to address issues of quality, equity, and social justice. In addition to his clinical contributions, his academic niche is conflict management and health care, for which he holds academic affiliations with several universities focused on this topic. He lives in Gallup, New Mexico, with his wife and two children, and is an active climber and trail runner.

Christoper “Topher” Jentoft, MD, currently serves the Diné as Clinical Director at Chinle Health Care Center. Previously, he served the White Mountain Apache Tribe at the Whiteriver Indian Hospital for 10 years. Starting as a full-spectrum family physician, he later moved to full-time work in the ER. Topher was founding clinician of the local Jail Clinic and HIV/AIDS Ryan White Clinic, Deputy Director of the Emergency Department, Medical Director of the local EMS agency, coordinator of unofficial, ad hoc“Middle Management Committee” of medical staff leadership, High-Risk Team Coordinator during Alpha and Delta COVID-19 surges, and Deputy Infection Control Officer under Incident Command during Omicron. His professional interests include blunting morbidity and mortality resulting from man-made inequities in health while working towards their ultimate resolution.

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Date added: August 25, 2023