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     NOTE TO REPORTERS AND EDITORS:  A ribbon-cutting ceremony will
take place at the Westhaven Nursing Clinic, 803 Hardy Drive, at 4
p.m., Thursday, April 6. U.Va. and local government officials will
participate. For more information, call Katherine Jackson at (804)
924-1827.
                                       Contact: Katherine Jackson
          U.VA. OPENS CLINIC IN THE WESTHAVEN COMMUNITY
     CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA., March 24--A nursing clinic will open
Thursday, April 6 in the Westhaven Community, providing primary
health care services to its 450 residents.
     The clinic, located in the former Charlottesville
Redevelopment and Housing Authority building on Hardy Drive, is
funded by a grant through the University of Virginia School of
Nursing.
     Known as the Westhaven Nursing Clinic, it is managed by nurse
practitioner Barrie Gleason Carveth, who has been working at the
site since January. Beginning April 6, Carveth will perform many of
the same functions of a primary care physician in a clinical
setting. Services will include women's health information,
immunizations, physical examinations and prescriptions for needed
medications. 
     Carveth expects to see young children and families as well as
geriatric residents during clinic hours, Monday through Friday,
from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. Clinic visits are free.  Westhaven
residents can call (804) 971-1200 for appointments or information. 
     Carveth will be assisted in the clinic by U.Va. undergraduate,
graduate and family nurse practitioner students, and a full-time
receptionist, Patricia Brown. The renovated facility consists of an
adult examination room, a pediatric room, a waiting area for
patients and a reception area.  
     Other community health services supported by U.Va.'s School of
Nursing include the Crescent Halls Clinic, also managed by Carveth.
It opened in January 1994 for the 115 elderly and disabled
residents of the housing center at 500 South 1st Street. 
     Westhaven and Crescent Halls clinics are supported by a five-
year $1.2 million training grant from the U. S. Department of
Health and Human Services. At the clinics, U.Va. physicians and the
Thomas Jefferson Health Department work with local health providers
and social agencies.   
     In December 1994, U.Va. opened a school-based clinic for about
2,000 Greene County students. U.Va.'s Primary Care Nursing Center
and the Greene County school system received a one-year $75,000
grant from the Virginia Health Care Foundation to support a full-
time nurse practitioner and an aide.    
     Additional funding for the clinics has been provided by
private foundations, including the Perry Foundation and the Inez
Duff Bishop Charitable Trust of Charlottesville, the Richmond-based
Theresa A. Thomas Foundation, the Albemarle County Rotary Club and
the Jessie Ball duPont Fund of Jacksonville, Fla.  Space for the
clinics was provided by the Charlottesville Redevelopment and
Housing Authority.
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                                             March 23, 1995