TOWNSHEND — Grace Cottage Family Health, a provider-based healthcare center in Townshend, has expanded its staff and extended its hours to accommodate a growing number of new patients.
On Thursday, Nov. 12, from 4 to 6 p.m., Grace Cottage will host an open house where five new providers will be on hand to introduce themselves and their services. All are welcome and encouraged to attend the event. Refreshments will be provided. Literature will be available.
The new providers are Dr. Jesper Brickley, Nurse Practitioners Jorda Daigneault and Devan Lucier, Physician Assistant Natalie Harding, and Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Benjamin Wright.
Brickley joins Grace Cottage after completing his residency at Rose Family Medicine in Denver. He is a licensed doctor of osteopathy - a type of medical doctor who is disciplined in looking at each patient in an intrinsically holistic manner.
Daigneault and Lucier are both natives of Windham County. In fact, both women were delivered by Grace Cottage hospital doctors. With a Family Nurse Practitioner degree from the University of Vermont, Daigneault had been at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center since 1988.
Lucier, a relatively young practitioner, also with a nursing degree from UVM, says she considers herself an “old soul” and particularly enjoys working with seniors.
Harding received her master's degree from Franklin Pierce College in New Hampshire and came to Grace Cottage from Valley Medical Group in Greenfield, Mass.
Wright has worked with veterans and their families at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs and has worked on adolescent treatment plans at the Van Der Kolk Center in Marlborough, Mass. As a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, Wright has the ability to manage prescriptions for his patients' mental health conditions.