Community & Other Practice Initiatives
Overview
The U-M School of Nursing’s practice initiatives are one way the school acts on its commitment to service and provides healthcare for the community on a local to global scale. Staffed and in some cases entirely managed by nursing faculty, these facilities provide high quality direct patient care, addressing a spectrum of healthcare needs as well as population specific concerns.
School of Nursing Community Outreach Clinics
The U-M School of Nursing collaborates with regional organizations to bring healthcare services to diverse populations. These specialty clinics are housed at Ozone House (residential and program services for homeless and runaway youth), SafeHouse (Washtenaw County's domestic violence shelter), and Maple Meadows (a low income housing community).
Faculty Practitioners
Shelter Association of Washtenaw County (SAWC) at the Delonis Health Clinic
The SAWC Health Clinic provides primary care, acute care, and chronic medical care to a variety of vulnerable populations, including underinsured and homeless patients. One unique feature of the Nurse Practitioner faculty’s practice is their holistic approach in which health promotion, risk reduction, and psychological assessment/treatment are routinely incorporated into overall healthcare practices. This holistic approach is extremely accommodating for the vulnerable populations served by this clinic. See their website for more information.
Faculty Practitioners
Regional Alliance for Healthy Schools (RAHS) School Based Centers
RAHS School Based Centers’ mission and vision is to provide high quality physical, emotional, and preventive healthcare services to Washtenaw County’s most vulnerable youth in an easily accessible, supportive, and caring environment that is sensitive to the needs of diverse populations. RAHS nurse managed clinics provide care to middle and high school aged adolescents in five Washtenaw County schools: Stone High School and Scarlett Middle School in Ann Arbor, as well as Ypsilanti Middle School, Ypsilanti High School, and Willow Run Middle/High School in Ypsilanti. The staff at each center varies but generally includes Family and Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, Physicians, Social Workers, Nutritionists, and Community Outreach Workers. See their website for more information.
Faculty Practitioners
Taylor Teen Health Center
The Taylor Teen Health Center is a School-linked Health Center that provides high quality primary healthcare to youth 10-22 years of age and a practice where no one is denied care due to an inability to pay. Family planning services are provided for those 14 years of age and older. In addition to basic healthcare services, an on-site Social Worker offers adolescent and family counseling and the Center's health education staff provides in-school wellness programs. The Taylor Teen Health Center also serves as a clinical site for U-M School of Nursing Nurse Practitioner students. See their website for more information.
Faculty Practitioners
Livingston Pediatrics
Livingston Pediatrics has been providing care to infants, children, and adolescents in Brighton, Michigan and the surrounding area for over twenty-five years. The facility provides well child examinations and acute illness care to children. Having a longstanding relationship with the U-M School of Nursing, Livingston Pediatrics is a center where Pediatric and Family Nurse Practitioner students have their clinical rotations and where a faculty member practices. See their website for more information.
Faculty Practitioners
Women First Health Services
Women First Health Services is a full scope Obstetric/Gynecology (Ob/Gyn) practice staffed by two nurse midwives and an Ob/Gyn physician. The practice focuses solely on women and their health needs in a warm, caring environment and strives to make each visit a positive experience, taking the time necessary with each patient. Through a partnership with the U-M School of Nursing, undergraduate and graduate nursing students are an active part of the care provided at Women First Health Services. See their website for more information.
Phebe Hospital & Bong County Health Team, Suakoko, Bong County, Liberia, West Africa
Located in north central Liberia, Bong County has a population of 328,919 making it the third largest county in Liberia. This county experienced some of the heaviest fighting and destruction during the most recent civil war. There are numerous rural clinics within Bong and one major referral hospital, Phebe, which is capable of providing emergency obstetric and newborn care services (in 2008, a total of 1,386 deliveries were recorded at Phebe). Both undergraduate and graduate nursing students have completed clinical rotations on inpatient units and in outpatient settings at Phebe Hospital.
University of Michigan Health System (UMHS)
As one of the nation’s leading health systems, UMHS is a huge network of healthcare facilities and includes clinics, hospitals, and health centers throughout southeastern Michigan. School of Nursing faculty practice in a number of different departments within UMHS. See their website for more information.
Faculty Practitioners
University of Michigan Emergency Observation Unit
The Adult Medical Observation Unit is an 18-bed unit specializing in the care of short stay medical and procedural patients, most of whom come from the Emergency Department. Care is provided for a range of medical patients that require brief, but intensive monitoring and is individualized to each patient and/or family in order to address and meet their unique needs. See their website for more information.
University of Michigan Turner Geriatric Clinic
The Turner Geriatric Clinic is an outpatient program of the UMHS Geriatrics Center and provides quality patient care, health and wellness promotion activities, learning programs, and community resource information. All of the Clinic's staff have special training and an interest in working with older adults. In addition to primary care, the Clinic's other specialties include palliative care, neurology, and gero-psychiatry. See their website for more information.
University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center
The University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center (CVC) is a nationally recognized leader in the diagnosis and treatment of heart and vascular diseases. As such, the CVC is dedicated to improving patients' chances of healthy survival, bettering the quality of their care, and giving more people the tools and education they need to prevent cardiovascular disease in themselves and their loved ones. See their website for more information.
University of Michigan Brighton Health Center
Established in 1983, the University of Michigan Brighton Health Center offers primary healthcare services to individuals of all ages and works to provide personal and high-quality care by creating partnerships between healthcare providers, patients, their families, and the community. Healthcare providers offer diagnosis, treatment, and referral when necessary, and also provide advice on how to maintain health and prevent disease. Additionally, specialty care services are available and include Ob/Gyn, cardiology, pulmonology, gastroenterology, rheumatology, urology, as well as a large Med Sport Program. See their website for more information.
Faculty Practitioners
University of Michigan Depression Center
The U-M Depression Center is the nation’s first comprehensive center devoted to the prevention, detection, and treatment of depression, bipolar disorder, and related illnesses. The Center’s multidisciplinary team of clinicians, researchers, and educators work to advance patient care, research, education, and public policy related to depression. See their website for more information.
