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Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, Chicago
Off-site Clinics as of December 2006
Chicago Women's Health Center
3435 North Sheffield Avenue
Suite 206A
Chicago, IL 60657
Located blocks away from Pacific College, Chicago Women's Health Center provides PCOM students with the opportunity to experience clinic in a unique health care setting:
Chicago Women's Health Center's mission is "to facilitate the empowerment of women by providing access to gynecological health care, alternative insemination, health education, and counseling services in a respectful environment where women pay what they can afford."
Acupuncture services include the treatment of a wide variety of conditions including, but not limited to:
- Women's Health Issues such as fibroids, irregular menstrual cycles, painful periods, menopausal symptoms, fertility, and more.
- Mental Health Concerns such as stress, depression and anxiety
- Fibromyalgia and Chronic Pain
- Digestive disorders
- Allergies
In addition to the regular duties each student experiences as a clinic participant, they will also have the opportunity to learn about business functions of the clinic. Students will schedule patient appointments, take payment, check inventory and answer incoming calls. This experience is invaluable to any future practitioner of Chinese Medicine.
Types of Patients: female only with a strong emphasis on gynecological conditions
Number of Students: six (6) per shift, one (1) shift
Types of treatments rendered: Acupuncture as well as herbs
Number of rooms provided:Three (3)
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Heartland Health Outreach
1015 W. Lawrence
IL 60640
(773) 751-1705
"Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights champions the human rights and improves the lives of men, women, and children who are threatened by poverty or danger. For more than 100 years we have been providing solutions-both through services and policy-that move individuals from crisis to stability and on to success."
Heartland Health Outreach provides the following health care treatments to homeless and low-income Chicagoans:
- Primary health care
- Mental health and addiction services
- Oral health care
Pacific College students have the opportunity to treat HIV patients exclusively, learning about how acupuncture can effectively treat the side effects of HAART drug therapy including headache, peripheral neuropathy, nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, diarrhea, as well as abnormalities of the liver and kidney.
Types of Patients:Homeless, low income, indigent populations. Treating HIV.
Number of Students: eight (8) per semester, four (4) per shift, two shifts
Types of treatments rendered: acupuncture is the primary form of treatment
Number of rooms provided:Two (2)
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Howard Brown Health Center
4025 N. Sheridan Road
Chicago, IL 60613
Phone: (773) 388-1600
Started in the early 1970's to raise funds for HIV/AIDS care and gay and lesbian services, Howard Brown is a Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Trans (GLBT) Community Based Organization (CBO). Howard Brown Health Center offers comprehensive health care including medical services, psych/social, case management, support groups, outreach, and research. We accept insured and uninsured patients.
Over the past year, Howard Brown Health Center has made a concentrated effort to focus on education, prevention, screening, and immunization for hepatitis A and hepatitis B to all sexually active people. Hepatitis education and prevention is on the radar throughout all facets of our organization.
Types of Patients: Patients with HIV/AIDS diagnosis
Number of Students: up to 4, which includes assistants and interns
Types of treatments rendered: acupuncture is the primary form of treatment
Number of rooms provided: 2
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Lakeview/St Joseph Laboure Clinic
2849 N Clark St.
Chicago, IL 60657
Phone: (773) 528-1188
In this busy community clinic, students have the opportunity to treat a wide range of patients. Because the Lakeview Health Center is affiliated with St. Joseph’s Hospital, our students are able to interact with Western physicians for both patient evaluations and diagnoses.
The patients at the Lakeview Health Center tend to be over 40 years old, and the most common condition treated is pain for such conditions as fibromyalgia, arthritis, and multiple sclerosis. Using acupuncture, moxabustion and cupping techniques, Pacific College interns learn how to apply Eastern medicine in a Western health setting.
Type of Patients: General mix of patients that would include a broad range of patients similar to a primary college clinic for e.g., fertility OB-GYN, Indigent care
Number of Students: up to 6, which includes both assistants and interns.
Types of Treatments rendered: all types of acupuncture, which is primarily the main form of treatment. Depending on the patient type and their presenting complaints they could also be treated with moxa, cupping, e-stimulation, tui na and massage.
Number of treatment rooms provided: depending on availability, generally 3.
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Heartland Health Outreach
1015 W. Lawrence
Chicago, IL 60640
(773) 751-1705
Heartland Health Outreach provides primary health care, mental health and addiction services, and oral health care to homeless and low-income Chicagoans at various sites throughout the city and through street outreach.
Types of Patients: Homeless, low income, indigent populations
Number of Students: 1 per semester
Types of treatments rendered: acupuncture is the primary form of treatment
Number of rooms provided: 1
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