Michelle Wade, MSN/Ed, NP–C, APRN, has joined Gifford’s team of Hospitalist providers. She most recently worked as the practice lead for the nursing home services of Community Health Centers of the Rutland Region, and in the Intermediate Cardiac Care Unit at DHMC. She brings years of holistic bedside experience in both acute and long-term care settings and specializes in adult and geriatric care.
Gifford’s Hospitalist Medicine providers—specially-trained physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants—work collaboratively as a team to care for hospitalized patients and help with the transition back to the care of primary care providers.
“I enjoy working as a team to provide the extra support needed to help patients transition from one level of care to another,” Wade said. “I believe it is especially important to make time to talk with patients and their families during this fast-paced and stressful time, so we can develop a plan of care that meets the patient’s goals.”
Wade grew up in Maryland but came to Carrabassett Valley Academy at Sugarloaf USA in Maine as a sophomore in high school to ski for the USSA Championships. After working in the ski industry for 10 years, she began to train as a nurse, something she first enjoyed as a candy striper when she was 12 years old.
Board-certified by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, she received an Associate Degree in Nursing from VTC, a BSN and MSN/Ed from the University of Phoenix, and Post Masters Graduate Certification - Adult – Gerontology Nurse Practitioner (NP-C) from Felician University.
When not working she enjoys skiing with her granddaughters, camping, and her two dogs.
Gifford is a community hospital in Randolph, Vt, with family health centers in Berlin, Bethel, Chelsea, Randolph, Rochester, and White River Junction; 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; a day care; two adult day programs; and the 30-bed Menig Nursing Home, which was named by US News and World Report as one of the best 39 nursing homes in the country in 2012. The Birthing Center, established in 1977, was the first in Vermont to offer an alternative to traditional hospital-based deliveries, and continues to be a leader in midwifery and family-centered care. The hospital’s mission is to improve individuals’ and community health by providing and assuring access to affordable, high-quality health care in Gifford’s service area.