Welcome to the UCSF Department of Community Health Systems
"Advancing Health Worldwide Through Community Partnerships"
OUR MISSION
The mission of the Department of Community
Health Systems is to promote and sustain health in the community and
workplace, with particular emphasis on culturally diverse and
high-risk populations. We are committed to improving the
health and health care for those served by community-based health
care systems through educating culturally competent nurses,
conducting research, and providing services in the community which
address the health issues of those underserved by the traditional
institution-based health care system.
To prepare students from culturally diverse backgrounds to
assume leadership roles in nursing clinical practice,
administration, teaching, and research.
To advance knowledge and
theory through research.
To design and evaluate the
organization, financing, and delivery of health care.
To
generate and test innovative professional educational models.
To promote and demonstrate excellence in professional
nursing practice.
To benefit the public, the profession,
and the University through active individual and group
involvement in service activities.
Grants Awarded:
HRSA has awarded Beth Phoenix, RN, PhD,
an Advanced Education Nursing grant entitled "Improving Access and Quality of Depression Care Through Collaboration" for a total of $1.2 million over three years.
The purpose of this project is to improve clinical training in care of patients with depression and prepare graduates to institute quality improvements for depression care, especially in underserved settings.
Pat Dennehy, RN, MS, FNP, has been awarded a
grant entitled "Expansion of the Glide Health Services
Nurse-Managed Health Center". This grant will expand
and enhance the primary health care services to a medically underserved,
high-risk, predominately homeless, client population at Glide Health Services.
This HRSA Nurse Education, Practice and Retention Grant is for 5 years at a total of $2.75 million.
Welcome: Kevin McGirr, RN, MS, MPH, will be joining us in the Psychiatric/Mental Health Clinical Faculty Position in the Master’s Entry Program in Nursing.
Faculty Vacancies: #N-270: Tenure-eligible faculty (Assistant or Associate Professor)
to teach in the School's Occupational and Environmental Health Nursing (OEHN) Program
and conduct related research on occupational and environmental health topics.
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#N268: Academic Coordinator/Nursing Director to work with the International Training and Education Center on HIV (I-TECH).
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