Melissa Kalensky, DNP, FNP

Melissa Kalensky, DNP, FNP, is a Family Nurse Practitioner and has practiced in primary care with patients of all ages. She currently practices as an FNP in internal medicine at Oak Street Health, in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood. She is interested in improving care coordination, health policy and the role of nurse practitioners in a value based health system. Kalensky participated in the implementation of an innovative interdisciplinary model of care that assumes full clinical and financial responsibility for patients with the goal of improving of patient outcomes; the first of its kind in the Midwest. This model of care has informed Kalensky’s work in collaboration with her practice’s clinical quality improvement team and includes:  initiatives to implement nurse practitioner led care teams, improve efficiencies of interdisciplinary care, and the design of workflow training for registered nurses in primary care.

Kalensky is a Certified Nurse Educator and teaches in the FNP-DNP program at Rush University. She focuses on course work in physical assessment, clinical management, and precepts FNP-DNP students in her clinical practice.