About CUHCC

CUHCC is Minnesota's first and oldest community health center. Located in south Minneapolis, we serve people of all ages and all income levels with compassion and care. CUHCC :

Serves the medical care, dental care, mental health care and social service needs for nearly 10,000 patients
Trains 170+ future health professionals to serve a culturally-ethnically diverse patient population
Generates research results to improve care at CUHCC and beyond

As a Federally Qualified Health Center, we serve patients of all income levels, with and without insurance. We offer our services on a sliding fee scale to make them available to everyone.

CUHCC is department within the University of Minnesota Office of Academic Clinical Affairs.

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Mission: Transforming Care and Education to Advance Health Equity.

Vision: We will be a premiere education site which leads in team-based care, and centers on person-family-community experience.

Values:

Patient engagement & agency – Centering patient voice and experience in care and operations

Whole person care – Collaborating as a team across services to meet each patient’s unique needs with high quality care.

Health equity – Creating access to care by offering comprehensive services responsive to culture, history, and social determinants of health

Learning & discovery – Providing an inclusive environment of learning and growth for future health care professionals and staff, using research to improve community health

Adaptability – Listening to our communities and discerning effective means to meet dynamic needs

Stewardship – Using resources wisely to accomplish our mission and benefit the greater community

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Frontline for Health Care Reform and Interprofessional Care
At CUHCC we're transforming urban health care and educating the next generation of healthcare professionals.

CUHCC offers a full range of dental and mental health services that are typically not offered at a community health center, such as prosthodontic services and psychiatry. CUHCC has pharmacists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, dentists, dental hygienists, nurses, family nurse practitioners, family practice physicians, internal medicine physicians, internal medicine-pediatric physicians, licensed social workers and psychologists among other disciplines on staff.

CUHCC's interprofessional care model uses a collaborative, team-based approach to deliver education and patient care, integrating these services. Students and residents at CUHCC have the opportunity to work with other students and preceptors in other fields to best serve the complex needs of the patients. Over half of CUHCC’s mental health patients also receive medical services at CUHCC, allowing CUHCC providers to work collaboratively to provide patient centered care.

As a founding member in the country's first accountable care organization (ACO) for federally qualified health centers, CUHCC is leading change in urban health and improving patient outcomes to meet the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Triple Aim: improve the patient experience, improve patient health, and reduce the cost of patient care.

This Health Center Program is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award totaling $2,460,041 with 72 percentage financed with non-governmental sources. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. Government. For more information, please visit HRSA.gov.