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What is Frances Nelson?

Frances Nelson is a primary care medical and mental health clinic dedicated to providing affordable and accessible high quality health care services to the medically underserved population of Champaign County now with a walk-in clinic and convenient care access.

Why choose Saint Francis Medical Partners for hypertension treatment?

At Saint Francis Medical Partners, our dedicated team of OB/GYN specialists provide personalized and compassionate care to help prevent, manage and treat gynecological conditions. It is estimated that one in three U.S. adults have high blood pressure (or hypertension), which is defined as 130 (or higher) / 80 (or higher).

Where is Frances Nelson Health Care Center?

Due to the expansion of needed health services, the increase in the number of patients, and the need for more space, the Center moved to its present location, the former Frances Nelson Children's Home at 1306 North Carver Drive in north Champaign, and assumed the name Frances Nelson Health Care Center. Services were resumed on November 19, 1969. Community volunteers Ora and Mel Mitchell, Erma Bridgewater and Wilda Herndon, along with many others, served as receptionists, lab,technicians. carpenters and maintenance persons.

Who was Frances Nelson?

In the 1940s, Frances Nelson sheltered impoverished and neglected African American children in Champaign County. She continued this charitable act until her death in 1962. Research findings in 1962 by two Master's Degree candidates in the University of Illinois Jane Addams Graduate School of Social Work (namely Arnetta Collins Rodgers, African-American and James Dudley, Caucasian) titled P renatal Care Among Champaign-Urbana Illinois Negro Mothers, told of the adequate and inadequate care of some 76 expectant mothers. Further research in 1964 showed the mortality rate of the African-American births in Champaign-Urbana as greater than that of the white community and much higher than the national average.