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PCHC Nurse Practitioner Residency Program Begins First Class


Penobscot Community Health Care (PCHC) is pleased to announce that Olivia Goldfine, ANP-C, and Sarah Patten, FNP-BC, have joined PCHC’s Nurse Practitioner Residency Program under the direction of George Case, FNP-C, NP Residency Director, and Robert Allen, MD, MHCM, FACC, Executive Medical Director.
 
Olivia Goldfine, ANP-C, has joined the staff at Penobscot Community Health Center as part of PCHC’s NP Residency Program.  Ms. Goldfine is an undergraduate of Smith College and received her MSN in the ANP Program from the University of Southern Maine.  Sarah Patten, FNP-BC, has joined the staff at Penobscot Community Health Center as part of PCHC’s NP Residency Program.  Ms. Patten received her undergraduate degree from UMass Amherst, and her MSN in the FNP Program from the University of Pennsylvania.

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of DHHS awarded PCHC a three year grant of $650,000 to develop one of only 2-3 nurse practitioner residencies in the country. PCHC has long been committed to benefiting its patients through the quality care of excellent nurse practitioners and physician assistants, working in concert with its physicians, as well as mental health, dental and other health care professionals. Now PCHC will be able to train graduate nurse practitioners in its Patient-Centered Medical Home integrated model of health care - the future of quality primary health care. Nurse practitioner residents will receive an intensive and extremely well-rounded one year residency program in a range of clinical settings, allowing them to specialize in particular areas. The program started in September with two residents, and will increase to four in the summer of 2012 and six in the summer of 2013.