Brings years of experience in emergency and primary care
Dr. Erwin Lange has joined Gifford’s Primary Care team and is seeing patients at the Rochester Health Center. He started in Rochester as a locum in November, 2015 and has now settled in full-time as the community’s primary care provider.
Lange brings many years of medical experience to his patients. He received a BA from Dartmouth College, a MD from the Brown Alpert Medical School in Providence RI, and completed a three year residency in family practice at the St. Joseph Hospital Health Center in Syracuse, NY.
Board certified in Family Practice, he began his career as a family practitioner in a rural community in New York State before moving into practice as an emergency physician in several NH and Vermont hospitals. When he decided to return to family medicine he was looking for a rural community like Rochester, where he could care for a variety of conditions but also establish ongoing relationships with patients.
Office Manager Dawn Beriau and Registered Nurse Gail Proctor have worked at the clinic for more than 30 years and are introducing him to local families, many who have been receiving primary care at the Health Center for generations. Lange says he really has appreciated how welcoming the Rochester community has been during his first months here.
“Rochester really is an amazing community,” he said. “Sometimes people have stopped in just to introduce themselves and visit, and that has been great!”
The Rochester Health Center opened in 1976 and provides family and internal (adult) medicine in a convenient location at 235 Main Street. Dr. Lange sees patients at the center from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Thursday, and Physician Assistant Tammy Gerdes sees patients on Fridays. Services include: annual physicals, blood work, sick visits, EKGs, chronic disease management, care coordination, and emergency procedures. To schedule an appointment call 802-767-3704.
