Health Care with a Heart

Our clinics are staffed by highly-skilled Doctors, Certified Nurse Practitioners, Certified Nurse-Midwives and Registered Nurses. Our family and internal medicine physicians have completed specialty training and are board certified. Our Nurse Practitioners and Nurse-Midwives have completed advanced training and are certified in primary health care. We offer a full spectrum of health maintenance, screening and disease prevention and health management services for all ages including:

• Basic and Preventive Health Care
• Adult Medicine
• Pediatric Medicine
• Preventive Adult Physical Exams, Well-Women Exams and Screening Tests
• Well-Child Exams and Immunizations
• Pregnancy Testing
• Tuberculosis Screening (Mantoux tests)
• DOT Exams
• Workers Compensation injuries
• Minor Surgical Procedures (lacerations, biopsies, warts, injections)
• Chronic Disease Prevention and Management
• Family Planning
• Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) Testing and Treatment
• Prenatal and Post Partum Care
• Health Education for Individuals and Groups
• Nutritional Counseling
  

We ensure the delivery of culturally and linguistically competent service delivery through a skilled team of bilingual and bicultural provider staff, bilingual patient advocates as well as language interpreters.

Our History

Fremont Community Health Services (FCHS) has provided quality, affordable health care to our community for 35 years . FCHS started as two small, "free clinics" — Beltrami Health Center (now Central Avenue Clinic) and Fremont Clinic, staffed by volunteers and operating out of make shift rooms in community centers. The clinics incorporated in 1971, in the early '80s, bought and renovated their facilities and merged in 1988 to form Fremont Community Health Services, Inc.  In 1995 we opened Sheridan Women and Children's Clinic in Northeast Minneapolis.

Central Avenue Clinic began as Beltrami Health Center, organized in 1970 by neighborhood activists at the Margaret Barry Neighborhood House in Beltrami Park, northeast Minneapolis. In 1985 the clinic moved to its current location on Central Avenue. In 2005, the Central Avenue Clinic had over 8,500 visits.

Fremont Clinic began in 1971 as a program of Northside Settlement Services which brought in a VISTA volunteer to help the community organize its own clinic. Fremont became an independent agency in 1981. In 2005, the Fremont Avenue Clinic had 9,000 visits.

Sheridan Women and Children's Clinic was born from a neighborhood collaboration that created the Northeast Neighborhood Early Learning Center, (NE-NELC), in 1995. Constructed with the support of the City of Minneapolis, NE-NELC houses five agencies which work together to provide a broad range of services to support families with children ages 0 - 6. In 2005, Sheridan Women and Children's Clinic had almost 6,000 visits.

High-quality, affordable health care close to home.

Board of Directors:

FCHS’s by-laws require the organization to be governed by a voluntary Board of Directors comprised of at least 51% clinic patients.  This reflects FCHS’s commitment to ensuring accessible and appropriate services to meet community need. 

Organizational Management:

FCHS's management structure supports unified agency-wide goals as well as allows decision-making at the clinic level.  The Executive Director reports directly to the Board of Directors; she in turn supervises the senior management staff—the Medical Director, Director of Finance and, Director of Operations. 

Senior Management Staff:

Executive Director

Jennifer Monroe, MA, MPH has Master’s Degrees in Public Health as well as International Administration, with concentrations in social and behavioral health and training of trainers.  She has over 25 years' experience in leading multi-cultural and international health and human service focused initiatives related to international refugee resettlement and community-based health.  She is a member of the boards of directors of the Neighborhood Health Care Network, the Northeast Minneapolis Early Learning Center and the Northeast Minneapolis Arts Association. Ms. Monroe has served as Executive Director of FCHS since January 2005.

Medical Director

Ron Jankowski, M.D. - A graduate of DePaul University, Jankowski received his M.D. degree from the University of Illinois School of Medicine in Chicago. He completed his family practice residency at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor and is certified by the American Board of Family Practice. Jankowski comes to FCHS after seven years at Columbia Park Medical Group. Jankowski was Medical Director of the Columbia Park Education and Research Foundation and Director of Education of the Columbia Park Medical Group. Before that, he had 22 years of combined leadership experience with administrative and clinical positions at University of Minnesota Clinics, the Mork Clinic and the Coon Rapids Ramsey Clinics. He is a member of Community Benefit Committees of the Allina Health System Board of Directors and a clinical professor at the University of Minnesota. Jankowski is also a member of the Board of Directors of Arm in Arm in Africa and the Childhood Obesity Committee of the Minnesota Medical Association.