DISCIPLESHIP | COMMUNITY | DENTAL EXCELLENCE
Memphis [+] participants receive a unique training over their three year commitment Christ Community Health Services (CCHS)
- Intentionally living in urban lower-income neighborhoods served by CCHS.
- Community support and mentorship on a weekly basis
- Equipped via the [+] curriculum: training that covers 5 Core Competencies: spiritual depth, missional living, leadership development, operational administration, and dental practice management.
Year 1: AEGD through NYU at CCHS Year 2 & 3: CCHS full-time salaried dentist
- Care: Mastering dental treatment
- Compassion: Learning to integrate spiritual health care with oral health care
- Cost: Apply for partial loan repayment through the National Health Services Corps
- Cross-cultural: neighborhood and patient demographic as well as potential training through a 4-week international rotation
- Commissioned: after 3 years, [+] graduates are sent to follow the Lord's leading
Memphis [+] Host Site
Christ Community Health Services (CCHS) is a Federally Qualified Healthcare Center (FQHC) with 8 locations in Memphis communities of greatest need. Founded in 1995 as a small medical clinic, it has grown to serve more than 50,000 unique patients every year through the 6 medical locations, 5 dental locations, a Women's Health Center, a Mobile Medical Van for the homeless, and 5 pharmacies.
OUR RESIDENTS AND FACULTY LIVE IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS NEAR OUR CLINICS. WE BELIEVE IT IS BY BEING NEIGHBORS TO OUR PATIENTS THAT WE BEGIN TO TRULY UNDERSTAND THEIR LIVES AND ARE BEST ABLE TO EXTEND THE HEALING HAND OF JESUS.
OUR NEIGHBORHOODS
Located in music and culture-rich Memphis, TN, Christ Community focuses on the following key neighborhoods:
- South Memphis
- Binghampton and the Heights
- Frayser
- Orange Mound
- Hickory Hill
Our providers, staff and residents have come to love Memphis and call it home. In many cases, our physicians and staff have relocated with their families to live near the patients they serve during the week. We will strategically place our residents in one of these neighborhoods. To learn more about our great city, visit choose901 to find out why you should join us in Memphis.
Dr. Travis King
Dr. Elise Shockley
Dr. Yousef Jefferson
Lance Luttrell
Dr. Rasone Jones
CHRISTIAN MEDICAL & DENTAL ASSOCIATIONS [+] CHRIST COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES
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