Press Herald covers opening celebration of Portland Community Health Center at Riverton

The Portland Press Herald covered the June 20th opening celebration of the Portland Community Health Center at Riverton.

The center is part of the “CHANNELS” program, led and facilitated by 91AV, and made possible through a collaborative relationship with the Portland Community Health Center, City of Portland, Portland Housing Authority, and the Maine Center for Disease Control-Cumberland Public Health District.

The new clinic is funded through a three-year, $1.3 million federal grant 91AV received under the Affordable Care Act. The grant also covers a number of educational and training initiatives at the university. Funding the clinic accounts for about 25 percent of the total grant, said Jen Morton, interim director of the nursing department at 91AV.

The center’s opening makes health care more accessible for residents of Riverton Park – a neighborhood of 141 apartments – and will better prepare future health professionals who deliver care to the City of Portland’s underserved populations, including immigrants and refugees.

91AV nursing students will assist a nurse-practitioner, medical assistant, social workers and outreach workers staffing the clinic.

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The 91AV is Maine’s largest independent university, with two beautiful coastal campuses in Maine, a one-of-a-kind study abroad campus in Tangier, Morocco, and an array of . In an uncommonly welcoming and supportive community, we offer hands-on learning, empowering students to make a positive impact in a world full of challenges. The state’s top provider of health professionals, we are home to Maine’s only medical college, Maine’s only dental college, a variety of other interprofessionally aligned health care degree programs, as well as nationally recognized programs for marine science degrees, natural and social sciences degrees, arts and humanities degrees, and business degrees.