Enhancing Care Through Occupational Therapy: Implementing Services at the UNMC SHARING Clinic

The Kaiser Family Foundation reports 121,800 uninsured persons in Nebraska in 2023, with 26% of residents below 200% of the Federal Poverty Level. The Student Health Alliance Reaching Indigent Needy Groups (SHARING) clinic is a pro bono clinic run by student volunteers at UNMC. The SHARING Clinic provides primary health care to uninsured and underserved individuals in the Omaha, NE area. As of January 2025, occupational therapy students and faculty have joined medical, physician associate, pharmacy, laboratory, nursing, psychiatry, physical therapy, and medical nutrition as care partners for the community. The purpose of our poster is to highlight how we integrated occupational therapy services into the SHARING Clinic. This poster emphasizes specific elements such as the creation of patient education materials, team-based care, occupational therapy in primary care, and advocacy for the occupational therapy profession in this setting. We will also share our plan to measure program effectiveness by using key performance indicators.