Family Practice
& Counseling Network
4700 Wissahickon Ave., Suite 118-119, Philadelphia, PA,
19144
267-597-3615
www.fpcn.com
Family
Practice and Counseling Network
opened with an initial
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) grant in 1992, and has
since grown and developed in response to need and demand by the communities
served.
The
Network began with one converted apartment space within the Abbottsford public
housing development, and now consists of three comprehensive health centers in
Philadelphia:
Abbottsford-Falls
Family Practice & Counseling
in the northwest; the Stephen and Sandra Sheller 11th Street
Family Health Services of Drexel University
in the north;,
and the
Health Annex in
the southwest. The Network also includes a convenient care clinic in
Philadelphia –
Fast
Family Care
@ Shoprite; and a Philadelphia site that is a
partnership with Action Wellness, called
Annex West, located in West Philadelphia.
Today the
Network serves more than 23,000 patients annually and is an NCQA certified
Patient-Centered Medical Home.
Family Practice and Counseling Network, a program of Resources
for Human Development, is a network of federally qualified community health
centers that uses a nurse-managed, integrated model to deliver primary care,
behavioral health, dental, and preventive services, which are co-located at the
centers and are designed to treat the whole patient.
Primary care
at the Network is provided by nurse practitioners with advanced practice
degrees and the expertise to diagnose illness and prescribe medication, to make
referrals to specialists, to provide pre-and post-natal care, and to offer a
wide variety of other primary healthcare services. The model relies heavily on
a psychosocial, interdisciplinary approach to care that “wraps its arms” around
patients.