PROFILE OF PRACTITIONERS
Katherine Dontje, MSN, APRN-BC
Carol Hill, MSN, APRN-BC
Catherine “Kate” Lein, MSN, APRN-BC
Susan McMullen, MSN, APRN-BC
Nancy Miller, MSN, APRN-BC
Denise Soltow, MSN, APRN-BC
LaClaire Bouknight M.D., Consulting Physician
Faculty Member:
Katherine Dontje, MSN, APRN-BC
Location of Practice:
MSU Nursing HealthCare Center
Population Served:
Primary age- 18-80+ including Veterans, Ingham Health Plan Blue Cross, Medicare, Medicaid and most third party insurances. Diverse patient ethnicity.
Major Health Problems of Patients:
Acute and chronic illnesses, health promotion
Special Areas of Practice Interest:
Women’s Health and menopausal problems, but I also find the challenges of helping people to become a more active partner in their own health care a primary interest.
Student Involvement in this Practice:
Precepting site for MSU undergraduate and graduate nursing students
Special Note or Statement:
I have with other colleague here at MSU developed a model of care for the NP which emphasizes the relationship between the NP and the patient as being patient center, holistic, continuous, evidence based and comprehensive. This model is what I base my care on with the patients, I try to emphasize health care education and awareness as well as barriers pt. encounter in making life style changes.
Provider:
Carol Hill, MSN, APRN-BC
Location of Practice:
MSU Nursing HealthCare Center
Population Served:
18 years of age and older: Veterans, Ingham Health Plan, Blue Cross Blue, Medicare, Medicaid and most third party insurances.
Major Health Problems of Patients:
Patient centered care managing acute and chronic health problems, providing health maintenance and preventative care
Special Areas of Practice Interest:
Health and wellness promotion, managing diabetes and cardiac patients
Student Involvement in this Practice:
Precepting site for MSU undergraduate and graduate nursing students
Special Note or Statement:
My clinical practice includes providing primary heath care to the Veteran population from a tri county area in Mid- Michigan. In addition, the clinic provides care to Ingham Health Plan patients and has recently opened to third party payers. The age range of patients is 18-80++. Besides managing acute and chronic illness, promoting health maintenance, the clinic also provides emotional support through provider interaction with patients, social work and psychiatry services. My interests are in health and wellness promotion and managing diabetes and cardiac patients.
Faculty Member:
Catherine “Kate” Lein, MSN, APRN-BC
Location of Practice:
MSU Nursing HealthCare Center
Population Served:
18 years of age and older: Veterans, Ingham Health Plan, Blue Cross Blue, Medicare, Medicaid and most third party insurances.
Major Health Problems of Patients:
Chronic diseases such as depression, HTN, Diabetes, Hyperlipidemia, men’s health issues
Special Areas of Practice Interest:
Behavioral health; patient-centered interviewing; diabetes; patient education; health promotion
Student Involvement in this Practice:
Precepting site for MSU undergraduate and graduate nursing students
Special Note or Statement:
A major emphasis of my practice is educating patients to understand the interaction of behavioral health and chronic disease. I emphasize healthy lifestyle behaviors and help identity behaviors to enhance patients’ health. I consider myself a behavior change cheerleader.
Provider:
Susan McMullen, MSN, APRN-BC
Location of Practice:
18 years of age and older: Veterans, Ingham Health Plan, Blue Cross Blue, Medicare, Medicaid and most third party insurances.
Population Served:
Adults 18 years and older
Major Health Problems of Patients:
Patient centered care managing acute and chronic health problems, providing health maintenance and preventative care
Special Areas of Practice Interest:
Health and wellness promotion, and education about health promotion as well as acute and chronic illnesses.
Student Involvement in this Practice:
Precepting site for MSU undergraduate and graduate nursing students
Provider:
Nancy Miller, MSN, APRN-BC
Location of Practice:
MSU Nursing HealthCare Center
Population Served:
18 years of age and older: Veterans, Ingham Health Plan, Blue Cross Blue, Medicare, Medicaid and most third party insurances.
Major Health Problems of Patients:
Patient centered care managing acute and chronic health problems, providing health maintenance and preventative care
Special Areas of Practice Interest:
Health and wellness promotion, managing diabetes and cardiac patients
Student Involvement in this Practice:
Precepting site for MSU undergraduate and graduate nursing students
Special Note or Statement:
My clinical practice includes providing primary heath care to the Veteran population from a tri county area in Mid- Michigan. In addition, the clinic provides care to Ingham Health Plan patients and has recently opened to third party payrrs. The age range of patients is 18-80++. Besides managing acute and chronic illness, promoting health maintenance, the clinic also provides emotional support through provider interaction with patients, social work and psychiatry services. My interests are in health and wellness promotion and managing diabetes and cardiac patients.
Faculty Member:
Denise Soltow, MSN, APRN-BC
Location of Practice:
MSU Nursing HealthCare Center
Population Served:
18 years of age and older: Veterans, Ingham Health Plan, Blue Cross Blue, Medicare, Medicaid and most third party insurances.
Major Health Problems of Patients:
Chronic diseases such as depression, HTN, Diabetes, Hyperlipidemia
Special Areas of Practice Interest:
Chronic diseases
Student Involvement in this Practice: Precepting site for MSU undergraduate and graduate nursing students
Special Note or Statement:
I like to work with my patients, to help increase their understanding of their illness, and empower them to manage their disorder, and prevent complications associated with their health problems. I believe patients need be active participants in the management of there health care needs.
Provider:
LaClaire Bouknight M.D., Consulting Physician
Location of Practice:
MSU Nursing HealthCare Center
Population Served:
Veterans, IHP - ALL
Major Health Problems of Patients:
Adult Medicine including hypertension and obesity
Special Areas of Practice Interest:
Substance abuse, adult ADHD and ADD
Student Involvement in this Practice:
Occasional MSU undergraduate and graduate nursing students
Special Note or Statement:
Culturally competent focused care. Board Certified Internal Medicine.
Katherine Dontje, MSN, APRN-BC
Carol Hill, MSN, APRN-BC
Catherine “Kate” Lein, MSN, APRN-BC
Susan McMullen, MSN, APRN-BC
Nancy Miller, MSN, APRN-BC
Denise Soltow, MSN, APRN-BC
LaClaire Bouknight M.D., Consulting Physician
Faculty Member:Katherine Dontje, MSN, APRN-BC
Location of Practice:
MSU Nursing HealthCare Center
Population Served:
Primary age- 18-80+ including Veterans, Ingham Health Plan Blue Cross, Medicare, Medicaid and most third party insurances. Diverse patient ethnicity.
Major Health Problems of Patients:
Acute and chronic illnesses, health promotion
Special Areas of Practice Interest:
Women’s Health and menopausal problems, but I also find the challenges of helping people to become a more active partner in their own health care a primary interest.
Student Involvement in this Practice:
Precepting site for MSU undergraduate and graduate nursing students
Special Note or Statement:
I have with other colleague here at MSU developed a model of care for the NP which emphasizes the relationship between the NP and the patient as being patient center, holistic, continuous, evidence based and comprehensive. This model is what I base my care on with the patients, I try to emphasize health care education and awareness as well as barriers pt. encounter in making life style changes.
Provider:Carol Hill, MSN, APRN-BC
Location of Practice:
MSU Nursing HealthCare Center
Population Served:
18 years of age and older: Veterans, Ingham Health Plan, Blue Cross Blue, Medicare, Medicaid and most third party insurances.
Major Health Problems of Patients:
Patient centered care managing acute and chronic health problems, providing health maintenance and preventative care
Special Areas of Practice Interest:
Health and wellness promotion, managing diabetes and cardiac patients
Student Involvement in this Practice:
Precepting site for MSU undergraduate and graduate nursing students
Special Note or Statement:
My clinical practice includes providing primary heath care to the Veteran population from a tri county area in Mid- Michigan. In addition, the clinic provides care to Ingham Health Plan patients and has recently opened to third party payers. The age range of patients is 18-80++. Besides managing acute and chronic illness, promoting health maintenance, the clinic also provides emotional support through provider interaction with patients, social work and psychiatry services. My interests are in health and wellness promotion and managing diabetes and cardiac patients.
Faculty Member:Catherine “Kate” Lein, MSN, APRN-BC
Location of Practice:
MSU Nursing HealthCare Center
Population Served:
18 years of age and older: Veterans, Ingham Health Plan, Blue Cross Blue, Medicare, Medicaid and most third party insurances.
Major Health Problems of Patients:
Chronic diseases such as depression, HTN, Diabetes, Hyperlipidemia, men’s health issues
Special Areas of Practice Interest:
Behavioral health; patient-centered interviewing; diabetes; patient education; health promotion
Student Involvement in this Practice:
Precepting site for MSU undergraduate and graduate nursing students
Special Note or Statement:
A major emphasis of my practice is educating patients to understand the interaction of behavioral health and chronic disease. I emphasize healthy lifestyle behaviors and help identity behaviors to enhance patients’ health. I consider myself a behavior change cheerleader.
Provider:Susan McMullen, MSN, APRN-BC
Location of Practice:
18 years of age and older: Veterans, Ingham Health Plan, Blue Cross Blue, Medicare, Medicaid and most third party insurances.
Population Served:
Adults 18 years and older
Major Health Problems of Patients:
Patient centered care managing acute and chronic health problems, providing health maintenance and preventative care
Special Areas of Practice Interest:
Health and wellness promotion, and education about health promotion as well as acute and chronic illnesses.
Student Involvement in this Practice:
Precepting site for MSU undergraduate and graduate nursing students
Provider:Nancy Miller, MSN, APRN-BC
Location of Practice:
MSU Nursing HealthCare Center
Population Served:
18 years of age and older: Veterans, Ingham Health Plan, Blue Cross Blue, Medicare, Medicaid and most third party insurances.
Major Health Problems of Patients:
Patient centered care managing acute and chronic health problems, providing health maintenance and preventative care
Special Areas of Practice Interest:
Health and wellness promotion, managing diabetes and cardiac patients
Student Involvement in this Practice:
Precepting site for MSU undergraduate and graduate nursing students
Special Note or Statement:
My clinical practice includes providing primary heath care to the Veteran population from a tri county area in Mid- Michigan. In addition, the clinic provides care to Ingham Health Plan patients and has recently opened to third party payrrs. The age range of patients is 18-80++. Besides managing acute and chronic illness, promoting health maintenance, the clinic also provides emotional support through provider interaction with patients, social work and psychiatry services. My interests are in health and wellness promotion and managing diabetes and cardiac patients.
Faculty Member:Denise Soltow, MSN, APRN-BC
Location of Practice:
MSU Nursing HealthCare Center
Population Served:
18 years of age and older: Veterans, Ingham Health Plan, Blue Cross Blue, Medicare, Medicaid and most third party insurances.
Major Health Problems of Patients:
Chronic diseases such as depression, HTN, Diabetes, Hyperlipidemia
Special Areas of Practice Interest:
Chronic diseases
Student Involvement in this Practice: Precepting site for MSU undergraduate and graduate nursing students
Special Note or Statement:
I like to work with my patients, to help increase their understanding of their illness, and empower them to manage their disorder, and prevent complications associated with their health problems. I believe patients need be active participants in the management of there health care needs.
Provider:LaClaire Bouknight M.D., Consulting Physician
Location of Practice:
MSU Nursing HealthCare Center
Population Served:
Veterans, IHP - ALL
Major Health Problems of Patients:
Adult Medicine including hypertension and obesity
Special Areas of Practice Interest:
Substance abuse, adult ADHD and ADD
Student Involvement in this Practice:
Occasional MSU undergraduate and graduate nursing students
Special Note or Statement:
Culturally competent focused care. Board Certified Internal Medicine.
