Christ Community Family Medicine Residency strives to be a place to prayerfully and powerfully learn and practice excellence in medicine as a conduit of God’s love poured out in our beloved communities. We live in grace through faith with an unashamed hope in the gospel as ambassadors of God’s love and peace through Jesus Christ.
5 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. 3 Not only so, but we[c] also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4 perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5 And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us. Romans 5:1-5
Christ Community Health Services (CCHS) is a faith-based federally qualified health center (FQHC) rooted in the Memphis community for over 25 years. As an FQHC we are a community-based organization that provides comprehensive primary care and preventive care, including medical, oral, and mental health/substance abuse services to persons of all ages, regardless of their ability to pay or health insurance status. CCHS is excited to announce plans to open a teaching health center family medicine residency program matriculating our first residents in July 2026. We received ACGME accreditation October 2024. We are busy planning for our first class and starting recruitment in summer 2025. Email fmresidency@christchs.org to get more information.
Email fmresidency@christchs.org to get more information. Also feel free to follow us on Instagram @fmrcchs.
Mission:
To educate and train generations of family physician leaders specializing in underserved care, in the context of distinctively Christian service. Trainees will be equipped to address health system disparities providing integrated, radically compassionate, cross-cultural, high quality care in Jesus name.
Goals
Our aim is to:
· Equip and train resident physicians to develop an adaptable and sustainable faith-based family medicine practice in under-resourced communities.
· Provide excellent quality, innovative medical rotations, electives, and didactics focused on comprehensive family medicine while addressing and working to correct a dysfunctional national healthcare environment.
· Partner with the patients and communities we serve to work towards just and equitable healthcare for all.
· Advocate for the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health and dignity of our patients, especially those most likely overlooked by our current health care systems.
· Support our resident physicians through the journey of training by having faculty, spiritual health staff and behavioral health staff readily available for mentorship.
· Graduate family physicians who are committed and called to address health care inequities in urban settings and beyond.
Core Values:
Faithfulness
We are faithful in carrying out our responsibility to serve the community and share our blessings with others. (Matthew 24:14-30)
Unity
We work to advance the mission and message of Jesus Christ to the community. We share our talents and gifts in our work to provide quality services to the underserved. (1 Corinthians 1:10)
Service
We are committed to serving our patients, their families and all who enter our doors with grace and compassion just as Jesus Christ would have shown. (Mark 10:45, Luke 6:30-31)
Excellence
We strive to provide quality healthcare and excellence to all our patients, regardless of their circumstances, in the context of distinctively Christian service. (Colossians 3:23)
CCHS Family Medicine Residency clinic is based in the Frayser community, aka the 38127, aka “the Bay”, in northern Memphis. Frayser was a blue-collar middle-class neighborhood that built up around the Firestone and International Harvester plants in the 1950s. When those plants shut down in the 1980s, the area went into economic decline and transitioned to a lower-income neighborhood. Patients in our community deal with high rates of gun violence, predatory lending practices, transportation barriers, a struggling educational system, and areas of food desert.
However, after decades of decline, Frayser has seen development in recent years, including multi-million-dollar investments in the new Ed Rice Community Center, Porter-Leath Early Childhood Academy, Girls Inc. Youth Farm, and the Christ Community Health Services Frayser Health Center. The Frayser Community Development Corporation helps individuals and families to navigate the regulations and resources to become home owners. Delano Optional Elementary School, New Hope Christian Academy, and Libertas, a charter Montessori school, provide outstanding elementary school alternatives right in the heart of Frayser. Several churches in the area are also very active addressing social and economic challenges in the community. Particularly strong faith-based programs have focused on youth development, including the Leadership Empowerment Center and the Husband Institute. These developments are a testament to the resiliency of this community.
There is still plenty of work to be done to dismantle systems of poverty and racism/discrimination, but many of the public, private, and non-profit organizations in the area are working together, through the Frayser Exchange Club, towards common goals of growth, development, and individual empowerment in Frayser. As the main provider of health care in Frayser, CCHS Frayser Health Center sees around 7,000 unique patients for over 14,000 visits per year , filling gaps in medical, dental and behavioral health care as well as affordable prescription drugs for the Frayser community.
Contact Us:
McCaa Russum, MS, MHA
Area Health Education Center and Family Medical Residency Manager
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Family Medicine Residency
Tracy McDaniel
CEO
Jessica Hughes
Chief Financial Officer
Shannon Walker
Chief Operating Officer
Dr. Reginique Green
Chief Clinical Officer
Dr. Rasone Jones
Chair of Dentistry
Dr. Kristina Murphy
Chair of Pharmacy
Tara Samples, Phd
Chair of Behavioral Health
Family Medicine Residency
COMING SOON in 2026
Our Passion:
Christ Community Family Medicine Residency strives to be a place to prayerfully and powerfully learn and practice excellence in medicine as a conduit of God’s love poured out in our beloved communities. We live in grace through faith with an unashamed hope in the gospel as ambassadors of God’s love and peace through Jesus Christ.
5 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. 3 Not only so, but we[c] also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4 perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5 And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us. Romans 5:1-5
Christ Community Health Services (CCHS) is a faith-based federally qualified health center (FQHC) rooted in the Memphis community for over 25 years. As an FQHC we are a community-based organization that provides comprehensive primary care and preventive care, including medical, oral, and mental health/substance abuse services to persons of all ages, regardless of their ability to pay or health insurance status. CCHS is excited to announce plans to open a teaching health center family medicine residency program matriculating our first residents in July 2026. We received ACGME accreditation October 2024. We are busy planning for our first class and starting recruitment in summer 2025. Email fmresidency@christchs.org to get more information.
Email fmresidency@christchs.org to get more information. Also feel free to follow us on Instagram @fmrcchs.
Mission:
To educate and train generations of family physician leaders specializing in underserved care, in the context of distinctively Christian service. Trainees will be equipped to address health system disparities providing integrated, radically compassionate, cross-cultural, high quality care in Jesus name.
Goals
Our aim is to:
· Equip and train resident physicians to develop an adaptable and sustainable faith-based family medicine practice in under-resourced communities.
· Provide excellent quality, innovative medical rotations, electives, and didactics focused on comprehensive family medicine while addressing and working to correct a dysfunctional national healthcare environment.
· Partner with the patients and communities we serve to work towards just and equitable healthcare for all.
· Advocate for the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health and dignity of our patients, especially those most likely overlooked by our current health care systems.
· Support our resident physicians through the journey of training by having faculty, spiritual health staff and behavioral health staff readily available for mentorship.
· Graduate family physicians who are committed and called to address health care inequities in urban settings and beyond.
Core Values:
Faithfulness
We are faithful in carrying out our responsibility to serve the community and share our blessings with others. (Matthew 24:14-30)
Unity
We work to advance the mission and message of Jesus Christ to the community. We share our talents and gifts in our work to provide quality services to the underserved. (1 Corinthians 1:10)
Service
We are committed to serving our patients, their families and all who enter our doors with grace and compassion just as Jesus Christ would have shown. (Mark 10:45, Luke 6:30-31)
Excellence
We strive to provide quality healthcare and excellence to all our patients, regardless of their circumstances, in the context of distinctively Christian service. (Colossians 3:23)
CCHS Family Medicine Residency clinic is based in the Frayser community, aka the 38127, aka “the Bay”, in northern Memphis. Frayser was a blue-collar middle-class neighborhood that built up around the Firestone and International Harvester plants in the 1950s. When those plants shut down in the 1980s, the area went into economic decline and transitioned to a lower-income neighborhood. Patients in our community deal with high rates of gun violence, predatory lending practices, transportation barriers, a struggling educational system, and areas of food desert.
However, after decades of decline, Frayser has seen development in recent years, including multi-million-dollar investments in the new Ed Rice Community Center, Porter-Leath Early Childhood Academy, Girls Inc. Youth Farm, and the Christ Community Health Services Frayser Health Center. The Frayser Community Development Corporation helps individuals and families to navigate the regulations and resources to become home owners. Delano Optional Elementary School, New Hope Christian Academy, and Libertas, a charter Montessori school, provide outstanding elementary school alternatives right in the heart of Frayser. Several churches in the area are also very active addressing social and economic challenges in the community. Particularly strong faith-based programs have focused on youth development, including the Leadership Empowerment Center and the Husband Institute. These developments are a testament to the resiliency of this community.
There is still plenty of work to be done to dismantle systems of poverty and racism/discrimination, but many of the public, private, and non-profit organizations in the area are working together, through the Frayser Exchange Club, towards common goals of growth, development, and individual empowerment in Frayser. As the main provider of health care in Frayser, CCHS Frayser Health Center sees around 7,000 unique patients for over 14,000 visits per year , filling gaps in medical, dental and behavioral health care as well as affordable prescription drugs for the Frayser community.
Contact Us:
McCaa Russum, MS, MHA
Area Health Education Center and Family Medical Residency Manager
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