RANDOLPH, Vt.—Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) Melanie Clark has joined Gifford Health Care, serving on the Primary Care team at Chelsea Health Center.
Clark’s approach to patient care is holistic.
“My goal, always, is to encompass the whole patient,” she said. “I utilize evidence-based guidelines and policies to provide optimum care with compassion.”
Clark’s vast clinical experience includes a wide range of care for all ages in a fast-paced urgent care setting; wellness care, routine health maintenance, and psychological support in a family health setting in an underserved area; obstetric and gynecological care for women; pediatric care for children of all ages; and medical and surgical nursing care for patients with acute and chronic illness, oncology care, and palliative care in a small community hospital.
Clark previously worked as a family nurse practitioner at AFC Urgent Care in Beverly, Mass.; as a family nurse practitioner at Cambridge Family Health Center in Cambridge, N.Y.; as a registered nurse at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington, Vt.; and as a clinical nurse instructor at Southern Vermont College in Bennington, Vt. She earned a master’s degree in nursing from Frontier Nursing University in Hyden, Ky., and bachelor’s and associate degrees in nursing from Southern Vermont College in Bennington, Vt. She is certified by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.
When not at work, Clark enjoys spending time with family.
For more information about Chelsea Health Center, visit giffordhealthcare.org.
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Gifford is a community hospital in Randolph, Vt., with family health centers in Berlin, Bethel, Chelsea, Randolph, and Rochester, and specialty services throughout central Vermont. A Federally Qualified Health Center and a Top 100 Critical Access Hospital in the country, Gifford is a full-service hospital with a 24-hour emergency department and inpatient unit; many surgical services; an adult day program; 49-unit independent living facility, and a nursing home. The hospital’s mission is to improve individual and community health by providing and assuring access to affordable, high-quality health care in Gifford’s service area.
