The many partners of the Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency Consortium have varied strengths and roles in the development of residents.

The University of California, San Francisco, through the department of Family and Community Medicine, provides academic support to the residency. All residency faculty have teaching appointments through the department. Residents and faculty have access to UCSF academic resources as members of its medical community. Core faculty regularly participate in the academics and faculty development of the department.

The Sonoma County Department of Public Health continues to be central to the education of the residents. Residents spend time in public health clinics that include family planning, maternity care, sexually transmitted infections, HIV, Tuberculosis, and colposcopy. Residency graduates attend nearly all of these clinics. Public Health also provides specialty referral services within the hospital setting for HIV and Tuberculosis care.

Southwest Community Health Center (SCHC), a federally qualified health center (FQHC), provides full spectrum health care for any patient regardless of their insurance status. Many residency graduates have moved on to work in community health centers across the country. SCHC manages and operates the Family Practice Center in conjunction with the residency. This partnership helps provide reduced rates for visits, ancillary services, dental and psychological care, and social support.

Sutter Medical Center of Santa Rosa currently provides the primary inpatient resident experiences and houses the Family Practice Center and residency offices. The hospital has been providing care to Sonoma County residents for 130 years. It has 175 licensed beds and is an affiliate of Sutter Health. It offers a full range of emergency, ambulatory and inpatient services. The hospital has an active obstetrics unit (averaging 160 deliveries per month), a high-risk OB program, the community’s highest-level neonatal intensive care unit, a 10-bed ICU, and a 16-bed transitional care unit. The Family Practice Center (divided into five separate offices, three for resident practices) has 46 examination rooms. Next-door are the residency program offices, the offices of the program director and faculty, a library, and conference rooms.

Kaiser Hospital and the Permanente Medical Group provide thirty percent of the medical care in Sonoma County. Kaiser specializes in population based medical care and using new innovations in providing that care. Forward thinking ideas such as group visits, electronic health records, email visits, telephone visits, web-based scheduling, and patient education have been present for years. The residents participate in care of patients in both the ambulatory and hospital setting at Kaiser. Current rotational experiences include: care of children, sports medicine and musculoskeletal care, dermatology, and behavioral medicine. Future opportunities for residents are also on the horizon.

Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital is one of the three major hospitals in Sonoma County. Memorial hospital is slightly larger than Sutter Medical Center. It has three separate Intensive Care Units and is the trauma care provider for the North Bay. Resident rotations at Memorial hospital include emergency care and care of the surgical patient. Future opportunities for residents are also on the horizon.