Clinical Service

The School of Health Professions mission includes improving people’s lives through cutting-edge clinical practice. Below are three innovative ways we are increasing access for patients as well as providing hands-on training to our students. With plans for future expansion, our school will continue on this mission.

Physician Assistant HOPE Clinic in Plainfield

Building upon more than a decade-long history of partnering with communities with substantial health disparities, Rutgers School of Health Professions’ Physician Assistant Program launched the Health Outreach Practice Experience (HOPE) clinic in Plainfield in July 2021. Physician Assistant students and licensed faculty provide free primary care to uninsured and underinsured adults. The clinic aligns the PA program’s mission to both educate students and engage with the local community—students are exposed to a clinical setting early in their training and have an opportunity to learn first-hand how to address socioeconomic determinants of health. For more information on services offered and how to book an appointment, visit the clinic website.

Speech-Language Pathology Clinic in Newark

The Rutgers School of Health Professions’ Department of Rehabilitation and Movement Sciences opened a pro-bono Speech-Language Pathology (SPL) Clinic in Newark in September 2021. Trained graduate-student clinicians provide targeted services under the supervision of Clinical Educators, who are ASHA- certified, licensed speech-language pathologists. The Council on Academic Accreditation in Audiology and Speech-Language (CAA) of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association accredited clinic is unique in its mission to provide quality care to the community while training future practitioners who can treat a diverse patient population and work with other types of professionals in the field of rehabilitation. Children and adults from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds can receive zero-cost assessments, diagnosis and therapy. For more information on services offered and how to book an appointment, visit the clinic webpage.

Newark Therapy Services

Our Focus is Function!

The mission of Newark Therapy Services (NTS), since 1996, is to provide the highest quality physical and occupational services to students with special needs. NTS’s goal for each client is to achieve maximum function and participation in educational environments and to improve each client’s quality of life with an ultimate goal of community integration. The practice provides evaluations, individual and group treatment, pre-school programming and educational presentations to school staff.

Our 41 clinicians have faculty appointments in the Doctor of Physical Therapy Program and are licensed by the State of New Jersey. All of our supervisors have advanced degrees.

The faculty practice is administered by: Director – Christine Cronin, PT, DPT, MBA, PCS

If you are interested in a clinical position, contact Chris Cronin at 973-972-0186.

Free Community Participatory Physical Therapy Clinic

Our Community Participatory Physical Therapy Clinic (CPPTC) has served the community of Newark since 2011. It is supervised by a licensed physical therapist and student volunteers from the entry-level Doctoral Program in Physical Therapy at Rutgers SHP. The clinic’s goals and objectives are developed in conjunction with the community’s self- identified health needs and goals and within the scope of physical therapy practice. The clinic serves the community’s health needs that are within the scope of physical therapy practice. Physical therapy, health and wellness education and referral to community resources is provided to patients, clients and participants at no cost. Read more.