IMPACT Practice Center
The Dr. Charles A. and Ann Sanders IMPACT Practice Center
Transforming health professions education & community care
Adult Rehabilitation Gym
We treat clients with brain injury, neurological, or orthopedic problems
Community Health Education
70-seat classroom with a flexible design
Collaborative Area
State-of-the-art technology for observation and telehealth
A new way to learn. A better way to deliver care.
The Dr. Charles A. and Ann Sanders IMPACT Practice Center at MGH Institute of Health Professions brings together students from across the health professions to learn and practice in teams and to deliver essential free care to the community. The center builds upon and enhances community services currently provided by the Institute and houses these services in one integrated center.
We welcome clients from across the lifespan, including adults, children, and newborns and their parents. We provide education, wellness, rehabilitation, and preventive strategies for maintaining health in addition to helping manage chronic conditions. The IMPACT Practice Center is a pro bono center dedicated to training students to be future practitioners in speech language pathology, occupational therapy, nursing and physical therapy.
If you are interested in learning more about the services provided by our students and supervised by faculty, please click the button below.
"I wouldn't be where I'm at today if I hadn't come here."
Jimmy Cahill, former Boston firefighter
Doubles
the number of clients who can be served at one time.
Doubles
the number of therapy rooms.
Provides
dedicated pediatric and adult rehabilitation spaces.
The Innovative Center
Caregivers can review client sessions through wireless tablets in clinical observation areas.
The 70-seat Community Health Education Classroom includes a flexible design to support academic courses, community education offerings, and health
and wellness opportunities.
The Sanders IMPACT Practice Center brings together students from nursing, occupational therapy, physical therapy, physician assistant studies, speech-language pathology, and genetic counseling to learn and practice in teams and to deliver essential free care to the community.
Transforming Health Professions Education
The Sanders IMPACT Practice Center enables student teams from across the health professions to deliver integrated services as part of their clinical education. By providing this free care under the supervision of the Institute's practicing clinician faculty, students enrolled in the nursing, occupational therapy, physical therapy, physician assistant studies, and speech-language pathology programs receive a priceless benefit: real-life experience.
Client populations include those with chronic conditions across the lifespan. Interventions incorporate education, wellness, rehabilitation, as well as preventive strategies for maintaining health.
Specialized Centers
Specialized centers address specific conditions through clinical expertise, research, and education. These centers include:
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Aphasia Center [5] (stroke and brain injury rehabilitation)
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Ruth Sleeper Nursing Center for Clinical Education and Wellness [6]
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Marjorie K. Ionta PT Center for Clinical Education and Health Promotion [8]
Providing Care for the Community
At the Dr. Charles A. and Ann Sanders IMPACT Practice Center , members of the community are provided with the best approaches to wellness, chronic care, and recovery as students from multiple disciplines work in teams to provide exceptional care. Clients receive comprehensive services that address a range of needs stemming from speech disorders, stoke, brain injury, and other chronic conditions.
Services also include a wide variety of wellness and educational programming for clients and caregivers. These free, supervised services not only change the lives of our clients, but also the future practice of our students as they learn to deliver team-based care.
The Center includes:
- Adult rehabilitation therapy gym to accommodate clients with a range of chronic conditions
- Services for children focusing on communication, sensory, and motor concerns
- 25 private treatment spaces
- State-of-the-art technology, allowing caregivers to observe sessions
- Screening and referral services
- Supportive counseling around mental health issues
- Caregiver support
- Educational programming in the 70-seat community room including wellness programs, caregiver and client support groups, and health-related offerings such as yoga, mindfulness, health fairs, and sessions on varied topics such as opioid addiction, diabetes care, obesity, and domestic violence.
See our virtual tour of the Sanders IMPACT Practice Center [10] and the Adult Rehabilitation Gym [11] within the center.
Care offered at the center
The Sanders IMPACT Practice Center supports discipline-specific and interprofessional clinical treatment services for clients. Discipline-specific services include health assessment, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech, language and literacy therapy for individuals with:
- Stroke and cardiac disease
- Obesity
- Brain injury
- Aphasia
- Autism
- Reading difficulties
- Children’s communication disorders
- Developmental issues
- Other chronic conditions such as diabetes and hypertension
Clients We Serve
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Range in age from 2 years to 94 years
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Reside in Charlestown and the Greater Boston area
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Have no health insurance, have exhausted their benefits, or have chronic conditions not covered by their health insurance
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Often have multiple chronic conditions that require management or referrals
Transform Education & Care
Support the work of the Center
Donations of any amount will help further the important work of the Center, In addition, the following naming opportunities are available. Donors will be recognized with permanent signage in the Sanders IMPACT Practice Center.
$5,000
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Treatment beds within the treatment rooms
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Equipment in the Adult Rehab Gym
$10,000
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Treatment Rooms
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Health Assessment & Exam Rooms
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Faculty Observation Room
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Student Room
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Faculty Room
$25,000
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Reception Area
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Waiting Area
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Children's Rehab Gym
$50,000
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Community Room
Make a Gift [12]
Contact the Sanders IMPACT Practice Center
Dr. Charles A. and Ann Sanders IMPACT Practice Center
Two Constitution Wharf (2CW) (Formerly referred to as 2 Constitution Center 2CC))
Constitution Road
Charlestown Navy Yard
Boston, MA 92129-4557
The Sanders IMPACT Practice Center – entrance on the first floor of 2CW – is handicap accessible.
Directions to and parking for 2CW [13].
Note: for good directions/GPS, request directions to 2 Constitution Plaza, Charlestown, MA 02129
See interactive campus map. [14]
Telephone: (617) 643-6332
Email: ipc@mghihp.edu [15]
Mailing Address
Sanders IMPACT Practice Center
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Charlestown Navy Yard
36 1st Avenue
Boston, MA 02129-4557
Simulated Participant Program (1st floor)
(617) 643-0752
twilliams@mghihp.edu [16]
Contacts for Centers within the Sanders IMPACT Practice Center
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Aphasia Center (1st floor)
(617) 312-5857
aphasiacenter@mghihp.edu [17] -
Ruth Sleeper Nursing Center for Clinical Education and Wellness (1st floor)
Director Kathy Sabo [18]
Phone: 617-643-1127
Email: ksabo@mghihp.edu [19] -
Tabor/Connor Family Occupational Therapy Center for Learning, Participation, and Rehabilitation (OT CLiPR) (2nd floor )
(857) 270-1811
OTCLiPR@mghihp.edu [20] -
Marjorie K. Ionta PT Center for Clinical Education and Health Promotion (1st floor)
(857) 272-2920
ptcenter@mghihp.edu [21] -
Speech, Language, and Literacy Center (1st floor)
(617) 726-8019
sllc@mghihp.edu [22]
