Expanding your team of imaginative allies
We believe that everyone deserves a team full of imaginative allies to help guide the way to a better future. While your primary care provider or specialists are the anchor of your whole care team, advanced practice providers are their right hand, providing additional support and expanded access to care when you need it.
In some cases, you may meet with an advanced practice provider before your physician. An appointment with a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant sets your next appointment up for success, allowing for a detailed review of your health history, ordering of tests and imaging as well as support and education to get you feeling better faster. This step allows your physician to spend valuable, productive time with you.
Nurse Practitioners
Nurse practitioners are advanced practice registered nurses who have received additional education and advanced training in primary or specialty care, along with a national certification and state license. Our team of NPs is available in nearly all of our specialties, offering personalized, accessible care. Your nurse practitioner may:
- Collect and review your health history
- Complete a physical exam
- Order and review diagnostic tests and imaging
- Prescribe medication
- Diagnose, treat and manage illnesses and injuries
- Provide education and preventive care
- Perform procedures within their designated specialty
- Serve as an assistant in the operating room with your surgeon, often performing wound closures
Nurse practitioner credentials may include NP (Nurse Practitioner), APNP (Advanced Practice Nurse Practitioner), APRN (Advanced Practice Registered Nurse), CNM (Certified Nurse-Midwife), CNP (Certified Nurse Practitioner), NP-BC (Nurse Practitioner — Board Certified), FNP (Family Nurse Practitioner), DNP (Doctor of Nursing Practice).
Physician Assistants
Physician assistants are medical professionals with advanced education, training and national certifications and state licenses. With thousands of hours of medical training, PAs work collaboratively to provide education, preventive care and chronic care management. Your physician assistant may:
- Collect and review your health history
- Complete a physical exam
- Order and review diagnostic tests and imaging
- Prescribe medication
- Diagnose, treat and manage illnesses and imaging
- Provide education and preventive care
- Perform advanced and more extensive procedures within their designated specialty
- Serve as an assistant in the operating room with your surgeon, often completing wound closures
Physician Assistant credentials may include PA (Physician Assistant), PA‑C (Physician Assistant-Certified).
These exceptional allies work collaboratively with your physicians to provide personalized, safe, compassionate care when you need it. Call us at 1−888−693−6437 or schedule an appointment online with our advanced practitioner team today.
