

Investing in
Physicians
Updated October 2025
The Place to Practice Medicine
In a region that’s chronically short of primary care physicians and specialists, we’re striving to support and encourage more doctors to choose the Valley as the place to practice medicine. Our five-county service area has about 47 primary care physicians per 100,000 residents, far below the recommended 60-80 physicians per 100,000 residents.
Community Provider Network, an entity of Community Health System, is a fast-growing network of providers enhancing healthcare access and bringing new physicians, education and research to the Central Valley. It is the umbrella that houses our medical foundation, Community Health Partners.
Our medical foundation, Community Health Partners, continues to grow quickly, bringing leading specialists to serve the Central Valley at every stage of life. We are excited about what we have built and what the future holds as we live out our mission to provide high-quality care and state-of-the-art resources for our physician partners and — most importantly — for the patients we serve.
500+
providers
323,540+
patient visits
(FY24 data)
50+
clinics
In fiscal year 2025 Community invested
$37M in medical education
While the federal government pays a portion of graduate medical education (GME) costs through Medicare and Medicaid payments, it only pays for a limited number of residency positions, falling 80% short of the current UCSF Fresno training costs. Community’s long-time partnership with UCSF Fresno creates a pipeline for training physicians to help ensure high-quality, affordable care is available to our underserved populations.
300+
Residents & fellows trained at Community in fiscal year 2025
50%
of physicians who trained at UCSF Fresno choose to practice in the Valley
240+
Community physicians trained at UCSF Fresno
220+ medical students
with the California Health Sciences University (CHSU), a private institution offering doctoral degrees through its College of Osteopathic Medicine, rotate through Community Health Partners’ practices as a significant part of their training in family medicine.