Virginia Health Care Foundation

Nurse practitioners are essential to the delivery of health care in Virginia, particularly within Virginia’s health safety net.  Virginia’s free clinics and community health centers rely on the continuity of care and compassion provided by nurse practitioners serving the uninsured and medically underserved.

As front line medical care providers who stress both care and cure, nurse practitioners have unique challenges in helping patients prevent and control diseases and achieve optimum wellness.   VHCF’s Nurse Practitioner Roundtables help NPs share challenges and solutions, build connections, and discover new approaches.

Prior VHCF Nurse Practitioner Roundtables have focused on motivational interviewing, smoking cessation, drop-in group medical appointments, and avoiding and overcoming burnout.

For more information on VHCF’s Nurse Practitioner Roundtables or to let VHCF know about resources or tools that would be particularly helpful to Virginia’s Nurse Practitioners, contact VHCF at 804/828-5804.

Beyond the Roundtables, VHCF is committed to supporting nurse practitioners by providing grant funding to help free clinics pay for full- or part-time nurse practitioners.  63 percent of Virginia’s free clinics now have a paid nurse practitioner on staff.  All but five of those have been underwritten by VHCF grants.

In addition, VHCF has prepared a detailed guide (Free Clinic/Mid-Level Provider Initiative) to help Free Clinics interested in adding a paid nurse practitioner to their staffs.