St. Tammany Health System welcomed its inaugural class of family medicine resident physicians on July 1 to the newly launched St. Tammany Health System/Ochsner Family Medicine Residency program, a first-in-the-region initiative designed to train the area’s next generation of primary care physicians.
To start, six doctors will complete their family medicine training over the next three years at the 18,000-square-foot, purpose-built St. Tammany Physicians Network North Covington clinic at 17240 Heartbeat Circle near the intersection of U.S. 190 and Louisiana 25. They are:
-Meghan Castillo, DO
-Madison Lambert Dronet, DO
-Mary Payton Grimmet, DO
-Ashlin Hinojosa, MD
-Mohammed Hussein, MD
-Marlie Giardina Welch, DO
“We are overjoyed to welcome our first class to the St. Tammany Health System family and look forward to providing this crucial piece of your medical training,” said Lisa Casey, MD, program director of the family medicine residency.
The program was established as a strategic response to the ongoing national shortage of family medicine practitioners and is the culmination of five years of preparation and planning by the STHS Board of Commissioners, medical Staff and executive team, in partnership with Ochsner Health. Once at full capacity, the program will graduate eight new family medicine physicians each year.
The North Covington clinic at which they are based offers a full range of care, including acute and preventive care for children and adults; women’s health services including Pap smears and contraceptive counseling; on-site physical therapy; and in-office surgical procedures such as skin biopsies, abscess drainage and joint injection.
The St. Tammany Physicians Network clinic in North Covington is open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.