The Geriatric Medicine Program at MAHEC is located in beautiful Asheville, North Carolina. An attractive place for retirement, Western North Carolina is aging much more rapidly than the rest of the state or nation. With this growing population, and a highly developed healthcare infrastructure, Asheville and the surrounding area is an ideal location for Geriatric clinical training and for future practice. The fellowship is fully accredited by the Residency Review Committee (RRC). We accept board certified or board eligible family physicians or internists for this one year fellowship. Successful completion of the program leads to eligibility to sit for the geriatric medicine added qualifications examination (CAQ) of the American Board of Family Practice and the American Board of Internal Medicine.

MAHEC has joined with community partners to provide a range of quality training settings for Fellows. These include:

• Mission Hospitals (An 800 plus bed regional referral center and teaching hospital with a medical staff of more than 600 physicians.)
• Givens Estates Continuing Care Retirement Community (An 800 resident Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC), including a 56 unit assisted living facility and an 84 bed skilled nursing facility with a dedicated Alzheimer’s/Special Care Unit.)
• Deerfield Retirement Community (A 450 resident Life Care CCRC including an 84 bed combined Assisted Living/Skilled care facility.)
• MemoryCare (An innovative program providing assessment, treatment, and support for memory-impaired individuals and their families)
• Care Partners, Inc. -- A collaboration of several health care programs including:
  • Mountain Area Hospice (A new 26-bed inpatient unit / home hospice care for approximately 100 patients / inpatient and long-term care-based palliative care consultations)
  • Mountain Care (Adult day care program providing services for 55 mostly geriatric adults)
  • Thoms Rehabilitation Hospital (51-bed rehabilitation hospital providing intensive inpatient rehabilitation).
  • Visiting Health Professionals (Home care services to a predominately elderly population of 1,100 patients primarily in Buncombe County)
  • Fellows also have the opportunity to work with patients in a wide variety of specialty care clinics such as Osteoporosis, Pharmacotherapy, Vision Assessment, and Community Outreach Clinics.
  • Black Mountain Center (A residential center dedicated to the support of individuals and families affected by lifelong disabilities and by Alzheimer’s Disease.
  • Asheville VA Medical Center (A 112- bed acute care facility and 120-bed extended care and rehabilitation facility serving Western NC, and parts of South Carolina, Tennesse and Georgia)