ACU member Deborah Nuber, director of operations at Zufall Health Center in Dover, NJ, was the recipient of an ACU-Kaiser Permanente Scholarship to attend the National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care annual meeting in Orlando, FL in December. Ms. Nuber said the conference offered up both motivation and inspiration. "Of particular benefit to me," she said, "was the safety net panel discussion which provided real time specific actions that could be implemented almost immediately to … [Read more...]
Meet a Washingtonian-of-the-Year
February 1, 2012 by
Nancy Sanger Pallesen, executive director of the Arlington (Va) Free Clinic was named a 2012 Washingtonian of the Year by Washingtonian Magazine. One of eight local leaders named this year, Nancy was recognized for her commitment to public health and her steadfast efforts to create and sustain the only clinic providing free health care to low-income uninsured adults inArlington. Congratulations Nancy! This column appeared in the January 2012 ACU newsletter, Clinician & Community. … [Read more...]
ACU member named to IOM Committee
February 1, 2012 by
Laurie Francis, BSN, MS, has been appointed to the Instituteof Medicine's Roundtable on Health Literacy representing ACU. The Roundtable brings together leaders from academia, industry, government, foundations and associations, and representatives of patient and consumer interests who work to improve health literacy. Health literacy is central to improving health outcomes, Ms. Francis says. "Our clinic assessments revealed that 50 percent of clients suffer from diminished health literacy … [Read more...]
Free Clinic Director to Study Impact of Health Reform
January 1, 2012 by
ACU Member Sister Mary Ellen Howard, Executive Director of the St. Frances Cabrini Clinic in Detroit, MI has her work cut out for her for the next 18 months: she was selected by the McGregor Fund of Detroit to receive a fellowship to study the effect of health reform on the safety net and particularly, on free clinics. Sister Mary Ellen aims to learn how free clinics will manage as Medicaid expansions built into the Affordable Care Act are implemented. "2014 marks a turning point for free … [Read more...]
ACU Fellow Focuses on Social Determinants of Health
January 1, 2012 by
ACU is pleased to welcome Tobie-Lynn Smith, MD, MPH, a Georgetown University-Unity Health Care Community Health Center Director Development Fellow. As a component of her fellowship year, she will be working with ACU. Tobie is a graduate of SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She completed her residency in Family Medicine at CHRISTUS Santa Rosa in San Antonio, TX. While a 3rd year resident she served as Resident Director on the American … [Read more...]
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