Larkin Community Hospital Palm Springs Campus Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a community-based, safety-net-oriented PM&R residency within the Larkin Health System, headquartered at the Palm Springs (Hialeah) Campus and drawing on a broad network of affiliated sites—acute inpatient rehab hospitals (West Gables, Encompass Health), subacute and skilled nursing facilities, private outpatient PM&R/pain practices, an orthotics/prosthetics clinic, and a pediatric PM&R rotation at Nemours—that together give residents wide exposure across inpatient, outpatient, procedural, and pediatric rehabilitation settings. The program is heavily populated by IMG and DO graduates and shows a resident body skewing toward interventional spine, pain management, and sports medicine interests, reflecting a procedural, private-practice-adjacent orientation rather than a quaternary academic rehab identity. Scholarly work is institutionally mandated (required research project for all residents, dedicated Department of Research and Academic Affairs, IRB support, research rotations) but the training structure and site mix are clearly built around producing clinically competent, procedurally capable community physiatrists rather than academic researchers. The program explicitly states a goal of encouraging graduates to practice in medically underserved areas of Florida, underscoring a service-oriented, community-practice mission.