Members of the Department of Community Health Systems are committed to conducting research, preparing nurse leaders, and providing services for those served by community-based health care systems.

We seek to maximize the health of communities with particular emphasis on culturally diverse and high-risk populations.  Our work focuses on both health and illness.

Through our research, teaching, practice, and service, we strive to:

• Provide mentoring for graduate students to enhance their clinical expertise and research training;
• Promote and sustain health in the community and workplace from an individual, client-centered approach and from a community-level public health approach;
• Enhance the quality of life for people living with mental illnesses, infectious diseases, and other acute and chronic illnesses at work and at home;
• Improve the accessibility, affordability, acceptability, and quality of care of community-based care systems; and,
• Develop and test models of care that meet the health care needs of communities, with emphasis upon vulnerable populations.