ALUMNI by Ellen N
v inno ation bout 10 years ago, as a nurse practitioner work- That’s when Goodman thought “why not?” Why couldn’t ing in the emergency department at Sibley an experienced nurse practitioner with a bachelor’s degree from Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., Catholic University and a master’s degree from Georgetown Kelly Goodman, B.S.N. 1996, had an University open her own independent primary care practice? idea. She didn’t like some of the trends she That was the start of Kelly Goodman, NP and Associates, A was seeing in health care. “The hospitals a family primary care practice founded in 2009, which is run were merging into conglomerates,” she and staffed by nurse practitioners. At first, she sublet a small recalls. “Many primary care practices were coming under the space within a podiatrist’s practice in Northwest D.C. Today, umbrella of large health care systems. There was a trend toward she has 4,200 square feet of office space in Bethesda, Md., along concierge medicine.” with a second nurse practitioner-run practice, Promenade When she discharged patients, Goodman asked about their Primary Care, at L’Enfant Plaza. plans for follow-up care. “More and more, we were seeing “We do it all,” says Goodman. “We are with our patients insured patients who didn’t have primary care physicians from start to finish. Each nurse practitioner does her own because cost and access had become barriers,” she says. “Many initial interview and information gathering and exam. We were using urgent care for their primary care.
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