2016 Fact Book

66 Health Care System The Health Professions Division operates five multispecialty health care centers in both Broward and Miami-Dade counties. These centers function as educational resources while providing patient care in the communities they serve. In many cases, these centers provide care that traditionally has not been offered by other local health care providers. Unique to our health centers is a university mission to fulfill the promise of interdisciplinary community health, with patient services backed by the nearby resources and expertise of the colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, Pharmacy, Optometry, Health Care Sciences, Medical Sciences, Dental Medicine, and Nursing. Treatment is coordinated by the division’s credentialed faculty members within a rigorous academic environment to ensure university-level treatment quality. HPD delivers person-to-person health care in the disciplines of family medicine, geriatrics, dermatology, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, internal medicine, nephrology and hypertension, endocrinology, sports medicine, dental services, physical therapy, occupational therapy, osteopathic manipulative medicine, pharmaceutical care, and audiology and balance. Our Student Medical Center provides health care services to our collegiate populations, with specific focus on convenience for our students’ busy schedules. Our Eye Care Institute offers specialty care in contact lenses; pediatric, adult, and binocular vision; low-vision rehabilitation; and sports vision screening as well as primary eye care. The Women’s Health Center, located in the Sanford L. Ziff Health Care Center, provides obstetric, prenatal, and postnatal care; nutritional counseling; and other services. Deliveries take place at Broward General Medical Center and other affiliated hospitals. Additionally, available gynecological services include Pap smears, biopsies, colposcopy, screenings for a variety of cancers in female organs, and a range of diagnostic techniques. In 2013, the College of Osteopathic Medicine established an Employee Health Clinic. This clinic runs as an adjunct to our current Employee Sick Clinic. The Employee Health Clinic is staffed by family medicine and internal medicine physicians (no students or residents are involved). This Employee Health Clinic allows NSU employees to be seen in an efficient and confidential manner. The clinic is open five days a week, and is located in the Ziff Building. The NSU Wellness Program is delivered to all interested employees through this clinic. The on-campus Pharmaceutical Wellness Center provides advanced patient pharmaceutical care. Among the specialized services it offers are patient education on medication use, improved patient monitoring, therapeutic outcomes assessment, refill compliance monitoring for chronic medications, a multidisciplinary approach to patient care and medication therapy management, private rooms for individual patient counseling, and conference rooms for group sessions for patients with specialized needs (smoking cessation, diabetes, etc.). Health care, however, is not only confined to the walls of the HPD centers, but extends to the community at large. Clinical faculty members are actively involved at off-campus sites, participating in health fairs, screenings, outreach programs, and other patient education special events. In addition, NSU has partnered with hospital consortia, agencies, and service organizations to provide health care services to indigent and underserved patients. The NSU health care system provides for more than 260,000 patient visits yearly to the communities it serves, and plays an even wider role in the health of the community. Patients of the health care centers benefit from the university’s integrated, multispecialty clinics because, with quick and easy referrals under the same roof, patient satisfaction and outcomes are greatly improved. As the clinical providers for a growing segment of the South Florida region, NSU remains committed to enhancing the health and well-being of the extended community.