United Healthcare Foundation Center of Excellence at Jefferson Reaves

The Department of Family Medicine and Community Health (DFMCH) was awarded a gift from the United Health Foundation (UHF) in 2004. The DFMCH sought to develop and maintain an innovative and integrated approach to delivering excellent primary care to patients from the community served by the Jefferson Reaves Sr. Health Center, one of twelve community-based, primary care clinics administered by Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida. Jefferson Reaves, clinical home to the DFMCH's Family Practice Residency Program, is located in the Overtown community of Miami, between downtown and the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital Medical Center.

This spectacular grant from United Health Foundation has enabled Robert Schwartz, M.D., the chairman of our Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, his colleagues, and our partners at the Jackson Health System, to create a national model for delivering health care in an innovative new way,” said University of Miami President Donna E. Shalala.

Contact us:

UHF Co-PI - John Ryan, Dr. PH JGRyan@med.miami.edu

Team Manager - Cheryl Brewster, EdD cbrewster@med.miami.edu