Dr. Marvicsin Wins Funds for Work with Nurse-Managed Health Clinics

Dr. Donna Marvicsin, a clinical assistant professor at the U-M School of Nursing, has been granted a $1.5 million award from the Division of Nursing at the Health Services and Resources Administration (HRSA). As part of the Affordable Care Act, this 3-year grant provides important infrastructure support to consolidate and expand the U-M School of Nursing's two small existing Nurse-Managed Health Clinics (NMHC), which are currently affiliated with the University of Michigan Health System, into one large NMHC. The merger and expansion will also allow for an increase access to primary care services for underserved populations delivered within a nursing model of care, emphasizing health promotion, disease prevention, risk identification and remediation, patient empowerment and collaborative patient/provider and interdisciplinary relationships.