The Institute for Family Health’s Family Nurse Practitioner Residency Receives Accreditation

Bronx, NY (January 30, 2025) The Institute for Family Health’s Family Nurse Practitioner Residency has received accreditation from the Consortium for Advanced Practice Providers for a full period of three years. The accreditation signifies that the residency program has met national standards for quality and has completed a rigorous ten-month peer review process, including a two-day site visit.

Since 2020, the Family Nurse Practitioner Residency has trained twenty family nurse practitioners, with four slots available to residents every year. Residents complete practical training at two Institute health centers in the Bronx, which leverages the strengths of advanced practice nursing and the community health center model of care to provide a comprehensive training experience in an urban environment. The Institute’s academic partner for the program is Mercy University, whose expertise was instrumental in the accreditation process. In addition to receiving hands-on clinical experience and didactic training, the nurse practitioner residents complete a number of specialty rotations where they gain additional experience in caring for people experiencing homelessness, integrative medicine, behavioral health and more. The program builds on the Institute’s long history of innovative health workforce development programs, notably its family physician residency programs in Manhattan, the Bronx and Kingston, NY.

“This is an important milestone for the program and a testament to the high-quality training we are providing in the Bronx,” said Dr. Robert Schiller, the Institute’s President for Academic Affairs. “I am proud and honored to count this program amongst our many innovative training initiatives.”

Margaret Walsh, FNP-BC, the director of the Family Nurse Practitioner Residency said, “We are thrilled to receive this recognition. We are training our residents in the most current and evidence-based clinical practices so they are equipped to best meet the care needs of their patients. Our team is grateful to the Institute’s leadership, staff and administration for helping us make this happen.”

Family nurse practitioners are independently-licensed advanced practice nurses, whose scope of clinical services includes primary care for adults and children of all ages. The Institute has a long history of cultivating nurse practitioner leadership. The organization’s co-founder, Yvonne Eisner, FNP-BC, is a family nurse practitioner who served as a senior clinical advisor in the residency prior to her retirement. Since the Institute’s inception, Institute health centers have been staffed by primary care teams that frequently include family nurse practitioners and family physicians working side-by-side to deliver outstanding care to people of all ages.

If you are interested in applying to the residency, candidates are invited to visit institute.org/fnpresidency for information on how to apply for the residency position for the 2025-2026 academic year.

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The Institute for Family Health (www.institute.org) is a federally qualified health center network that serves over 100,000 patients annually. Services are available to people of all ages, regardless of ability to pay.