School’s Nurse Managed Health Centers Recognized by the National Nursing Centers Consortium

The NNCC honors the centers’ history of excellence in service to the community.

At the National Nursing Centers Consortium annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas in mid-March, the University of Michigan School of Nursing’s two nurse managed centers were recognized for their long history of excellence in serving the community’s healthcare needs. The two centers, the North Campus Family Health Service and the Community Health Service, were some of the nation’s first healthcare facilities entirely managed by skilled nurse practitioners, demonstrating the U-M School of Nursing’s innovative approach to developing new models of high quality patient care, specifically for underserved populations. The U-M School of Nursing has continued its efforts to improve the nurse managed centers, most recently with Dr. Donna Marvicsin who was awarded a $1.5 million grant to effectively integrate two nurse managed facilities into a consolidated center with expanded capacity to serve community members.

The National Nursing Centers Consortium (NNCC) supports nurses’ role at the front line of healthcare and advocates that advanced practice nurses today are able to deliver high quality and cost-effective services to the most vulnerable populations, namely the poor and the uninsured. Its member health centers, run by nurse practitioners, demonstrate this by providing community-based care that is sensitive to patient needs and concerns.