NUHS to Provide Chiropractic Care for Bay Pines VA Healthcare System
Monday, November 25, 2013
National University of Health Sciences
(NUHS) recently signed an agreement to bring chiropractic care to
Veterans at the Bay Pines VA Healthcare System, located just north
of St. Petersburg, Florida.
Under the agreement, NUHS will hire a full-time chiropractic
physician (DC) who, along with student interns, will work at Bay
Pines as part of its Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Department. Bay Pines will provide both the facilities and
equipment for the NUHS DC and interns. This will be the first time
Bay Pines has offered on-site chiropractic care as part of its
medical services to Veterans.
Initially, NUHS hopes to assign up to two chiropractic interns
to the Bay Pines facility, expanding the number of clinical
opportunities for NUHS students.
"This is a mutually beneficial agreement in that we are bringing
chiropractic care to Veterans along the Gulf Coast, as well as
expanding opportunities for our students," says Dr. Theodore
Johnson, dean of clinics at NUHS. "The interns will have a chance
to work in a unique environment, treating a different population
than they might otherwise see."
Like all NUHS clinical internships and hospital rotations, the
internships at Bay Pines will be open to students from both the
NUHS Illinois and Florida locations. The internships will be filled
selectively through application, ensuring that candidates meet GPA
and performance standards.
NUHS will begin offering chiropractic medical services at Bay
Pines in early 2014. The university's current clinics in
Florida include the NUHS Whole Health Center-Pinellas Park, a
community integrative medicine clinic, as well as the NUHS Whole Health
Center-SPC, a chiropractic clinic serving the students, faculty
and staff of St. Petersburg College.
"We're proud to be part of a nationwide effort to expand
Veterans' access to chiropractic medicine," says President Joseph
Stiefel of NUHS.
