{"id":5362,"date":"2015-02-20T20:51:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T20:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=5362"},"modified":"2019-01-10T19:29:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T19:29:20","slug":"health-commons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2015\/02\/20\/health-commons\/","title":{"rendered":"MPR features Augsburg&#8217;s Central Health Commons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/MPRLogo.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3946\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/MPRLogo.jpeg\" alt=\"MPRLogo\" width=\"100\" height=\"88\" \/><\/a>Kathleen Clark<\/strong>, Augsburg College instructor and director\u00a0of the Central Health Commons, spoke with\u00a0MPR News about her role at the drop-in health care center.<\/p>\n<p>The Health Commons, which has been open for 22 years\u00a0and is free to\u00a0visitors,\u00a0provides medical\u00a0and nutritional\u00a0consultations and services as well as connections to other health care resources.<\/p>\n<p>The focus of care at the Health Commons is communication and hospitality, even though&#8211;unfortunately&#8211;this approach has become less common in\u00a0traditional medical settings.<\/p>\n<p>Central Health Commons is funded by Augsburg College, Central Lutheran Church, and other private donations.<\/p>\n<p>To <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2015\/02\/17\/central-health-commons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read the article and learn more about the\u00a0Health Commons<\/a>, visit the MPR News site.<\/p>\n<p>The story also was picked up by the Associated Press and since has run in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The News &amp; Observer in Raleigh, N.C. &#8212;\u00a0Augsburg College nurses put hospitality first<\/li>\n<li>The State of Columbia, S.C. &#8212; Nurses at Augsburg College center put hospitality first<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathleen Clark, Augsburg College instructor and director\u00a0of the Central Health Commons, spoke with\u00a0MPR News about her role at the drop-in health care center. The Health Commons, which has been open for 22 years\u00a0and is free to\u00a0visitors,\u00a0provides medical\u00a0and nutritional\u00a0consultations and services as well as connections to other health care resources. The focus of care at the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":215,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,4,6,3228],"tags":[3933,3522,549,3636,3523,2002,3240,3640],"class_list":["post-5362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-faculty","category-donors","category-in-the-news","category-kudos","tag-augsburg-university","tag-central-health-commons","tag-central-lutheran-church","tag-inclusion","tag-kathleen-clark","tag-mpr","tag-nursing","tag-transcultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5362"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8864,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362\/revisions\/8864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}