Our Impact: Live Healthy Our Community Care Clinic Program Northwestern’s Community Care Clinics provide high-quality integrated health care at low or no cost across the Twin Cities Metro to students, the public and to the impoverished, homeless, and uninsured members of our community. Our clinics meet a direct need for vulnerable populations and advance health care equity in our community. People living in poverty are at higher risk than the general population for chronic diseases, opioid addiction, depression and anxiety. Recently, our Community Care Clinic program has reached several milestones. 2016 We completed our first full year using our new Electronic Medical Record system, ensuring we meet standards of best practice. At the H.C. Sweere Center, students and faculty completed a 3-D gait analysis study on 80 subjects, including runners from Team USA Minnesota and Olympic sprinters from the Virgin Islands. Facility and data-management system improvements support greater innovation in future research and care delivery. Facility upgrades at the De Rusha Clinic enhanced the clinic experience for patients and providers. 2017 In early 2017, the De Rusha and Bloomington Clinics implemented a patient alert system for acupuncture and Chinese medicine practices, raising the bar for provider dependability and professionalism. The De Rusha Clinic also re-opened the Edith Davis Teaching Clinic as a fully functioning space to handle the increasing number of patient visits. The H.C. Sweere Center completed a collaborative study with the University of St. Thomas analyzing squat movement and power generation. The Applied Ergonomics division of the Center became the home of WorkSiteRight, an exciting initiative designed to improve worker health with on-site integrative care for companies in Minnesota and beyond. In 2017, the Human Performance Center boasted a growing sports injury management curriculum for chiropractic students pursuing careers in professional sports care. Students and providers work with high performance athletes with the Minnesota Vixens, the Minnesota Freeze, the Augsburg College Athletic Training Department, Concordia Academy, USA Tug of War, the House of Dance, Alliance Brazilian Jui-Jitsu, and athletes referred by the British Virgin Islands Olympic Committee. We have celebrated a full decade of continuous care through Northwestern’s Community Care Clinic Program. The program’s pilot site, Pillsbury House Integrated Clinic, has served thousands of individual patients since its launch in 2007. Harbor Light, our clinic at Salvation Army, trains student interns to deliver free integrative care to homeless, low-income and transient populations in downtown Minneapolis. La Clinica hired the first bilingual chiropractor to manage services, furthering our reach and ability to effectively treat minority patients in St. Paul. Community clinic care brings pain relief, nutrition intervention, counseling, wellness planning and improved health-related quality of life to those most in need. Northwestern students who provide this care receive the critical, hands-on training that makes them ambassadors of excellence in integrative care. By the Numbers: A Decade of Community Care Northwestern Health Clinic Bloomington • 17,537 patient visits • 19,326 intern hours Pillsbury House Integrated Clinic • 10 years of affordable health care delivery • 15,000 individual patients treated since 2007 Salvation Army—Harbor Light Clinic • 1,500 individual patients treated since 2009 12