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Express Care Clinic at Cole Memorial in Coudersport
Open weekdays from 4 to 8 p.m.
COLE MEMORIAL MEDICAL
GROUP RECOGNIZED
THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE
for Quality Assurance
(NCQA) announced that each of Cole Memorial Medi-
cal Group’s 11 health centers has been recognized as a
patient-centered medical home. Cole Memorial Medi-
cal Group received this recognition for using evidence-
based, patient-centered processes that focus on highly
coordinated care and long-term,
participative relationships.
The NCQA Patient-Centered
Medical Home is a model of pri-
mary care that combines team-
work and information technology
to improve care, improve patients’
experience of care and reduce
costs. Medical homes foster ongo-
ing partnerships between patients
and their personal clinicians instead
of approaching care as the sum of episodic office visits.
Each patient’s care is overseen by clinician-led care teams
that coordinate treatment across the health care system.
“NCQA Patient-Centered Medical Home recognition
raises the bar in defining high-quality care by emphasizing
access, health information technology and coordinated
care focused on patients,” says NCQA President Margaret
E. O’Kane, MHA. “Recognition shows that Cole Memorial
has the tools, systems and resources to provide its patients
with the right care at the right time.”
To earn recognition, which is valid for three years, Cole
Memorial demonstrated the ability to meet the program’s
key elements, embodying characteristics of the medical
home for its internal medicine, pediatrics, and primary
care practices. NCQA standards aligned with the joint
principles of the Patient-Centered
Medical Home established with the
American College of Physicians,
the American Academy of Family
Physicians, the American Academy
of Pediatrics and the American
Osteopathic Association.
“The achievement of Patient-
Centered Medical Home recog-
nition under the most rigorous
standards is a key element to our
delivery of care model,” says Janice Walters, executive
director of Cole Memorial Medical Group. “We look for-
ward to continuing to provide quality, comprehensive,
primary care services through our clinically integrated
Patient-Centered Medical Home model and to leverage
what we have been doing to impact the health of the
communities we serve.”
For more information, visit
www.colememorial
.org
or the NCQA website at
www.ncqa.org.
WELCOME
,
NEW
PROVIDERS
THE COLE MEMORIAL
Medi-
cal Group is pleased to announce
that Sarah Colson, CRNP, recently
joined the Bowman Health Center
team in Smethport.
A resident of Kane, Pennsylva-
nia, Colson returned to the area
after teaching at Jamestown Com-
munity College’s nurse education
department in Jamestown, New
York, and receiving her master of
science degree in nursing with a
concentration in the family nurse
practitioner program from George
Washington University in District
of Columbia.
She also holds an associate and
bachelor’s degree innursing fromthe
University of Pittsburgh at Bradford.
Colson has extensive experience
as a registered nurse in Pennsylvania at Warren General
Hospital, Elk Regional Health Center and Bradford Re-
gional Medical Center. She also held the position of clini-
cal manager of the Veteran Affairs Outpatient Clinic in
Bradford, Pennsylvania, until 2013.
To make an appointment, call
814-887-5395
.
The Cole Memorial Medical Group is also pleased
to welcome Jeffrey Nolt, MD, a board-certified family
medicine specialist, to the Central Potter Health Center
team in Coudersport.
After owning a seasonal camp in the area for many
years, Dr. Nolt was familiar with Cole Memorial. He
comes with more than 20 years of experience from the
WellSpan Medical Group in York, Pennsylvania, and a
private practice at the Adams-CumberlandMedical Center
in Gardners, Pennsylvania.
Dr. Nolt also holds a bachelor’s degree from Messiah
College in Grantham, Pennsylvania, and received his
medical degree at Hahnemann University Medical School
after completing a residency in family medicine at Altoona
Hospital, both in Pennsylvania.
For more information or to make an appoint-
ment, call
814-274-5577
.
Sarah Colson,
CRNP
Jeffrey Nolt, MD
Family practice
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Christian McMonigal Jr., PA-C
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Jeffrey Nolt, MD
Central Potter–Coudersport
814-274-5577
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Amy Sorg, CRNP
Eldred
814-225-4241
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Kathy Fragale PA-C
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David Kulling, MD
Emporium
814-486-0810
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Debra Carr, PA-C
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Andrew Kayes, MD
Galeton
814-435-2942
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Julie Baker, PA-C
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Rebecca Gardner, PA-C
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Jason G. Tronetti, DO
Port Allegany
814-642-2505
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Ramani Arya, MD
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James N. Barke, MD
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Eric Schreiber, PA-C
Shinglehouse
814-260-9352
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Sarah Colson, CRNP
Smethport
814-887-5395
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Patricia Thum, DNP, NP-C, CRNP
Ulysses
814-848-7555
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Debra Carr, PA-C
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Susan Miller, MD
Westfield
814-367-5971
Internal medicine
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Taylor Carrington, PA-C
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Julie Coppersmith, PA-C
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Crystal Fowler, PA-C
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Aaron Hill, MD
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Emily Lynch, PA-C
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Howard J. Miller, MD
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Jeffrey Nolt, MD
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Mandy Sillick, PA-C
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Tiffany Taylor, PA-C
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Brenda Wahlers, MD
Coudersport
814-274-5276
Obstetrics/Gynecology
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Celso L. Backes, MD
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Mazen Fouany, MD
Coudersport
814-274-7101
Pediatrics
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Hongye Li, MD
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Mary Ann Rigas, MD
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Korin Trumpie, PA-C
Coudersport
814-274-9198
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Hongye Li, MD
Emporium
814-486-0810
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Becky Seefeldt, DNP-BC, CRNP
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Marlene Wust-Smith, MD
Port Allegany
814-642-7205
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