Will continue to provide vital services to people in need
The student-run SHARING Clinics for the University of Nebraska Medical Center will have a new schedule and new locations in 2011 to continue to serve patients in its three clinics.
The SHARING Medical Clinic (Student Health Alliance Reaching Indigent Needy Groups) provides general health care for adults and children in need. It will operate on Tuesdays from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the UNMC Specialty Care Center, 804 S. 52nd St. The new schedule is effective Jan. 3. The SHARING Medical Clinic is relocating after UNMC’s South Omaha Community Health Center, which previously housed and supported the SHARING Clinic, was closed on Dec. 1 due to a loss of grant funding.
The SHARING Clinic also had operated its RESPECT Clinic on Wednesday nights out of the South Omaha Community Health Center. In 2011, the RESPECT Clinic (Responsible Early STD Prevention Education and Community Testing) will move to Baker Place, 5050 Ames Ave. and will be open on Monday nights beginning Jan. 24.
The SHARING Clinic will continue to offer the GOODLIFE Clinic at Baker Place, 5050 Ames Ave., on the second Wednesday of each month. The GOODLIFE Clinic (Greater Omaha Outreach for Diabetes Lifestyles Impacting Fitness and Education) offers treatment of Type II diabetes.
“We are excited to continue to serve patients at all three of our clinics,” said SHARING Clinic co-president and medical student Kara Markin. “The SHARING Clinics provide important health care services in our community and offer valuable experience to students across UNMC’s academic programs.”
The SHARING Clinics are entirely student-run with support from a faculty advisory group, which is chaired by Audrey Paulman, M.D. “The students take great pride in operating the SHARING Clinics," Dr. Paulman said. "They put much thought and hard work into the clinic operations and the recent relocations.”
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