Our History
The School of Nursing was founded in 1925 to address the need for nursing education at the then new University of Rochester Medical Center. Over sixty years later, the school established the Community Nursing Center, a nursing faculty practice that targeted specific community health needs and developed programs and services to meet them.

In 2005, the Community Nursing Center became the Center for Nursing Entrepreneurship. By the mid-1990’s, the idea of a faculty practice moved from not just providing health interventions in the community, but being self-sustaining. Program surpluses from the Community Nursing Center have helped fund the School of Nursing’s initiatives, even when market and supply dynamics, like shortages of flu vaccine, have required the resourceful team to devise new approaches.