Family Nurse Practitioner accepting new patients in Starke County and Northwest Indiana.
Family Nurse Practitioner accepting new patients in Starke County and Northwest Indiana.
Dan Cole is a Family Nurse Practitioner who is accepting new patients in Knox and Northwest Indiana. Dan has been practicing at Maple Leaf Health and Wellness for a couple months. He has already started to see the impact he can make in the community and is enjoying caring for patients and not caring for insurance providers. To read more about why Dan chose to pursue a career path focused on direct primary care, click here.
Dan is excited to start this practice and looks forward to meeting new people in the community. Dan graduated from Knox High School and is excited to help improve the health of his community. If you or someone you know is looking for a primary care provider, Dan is accepting new patients.
What conditions do primary care providers treat?
Primary care providers are vital to health maintenance and illness prevention. Primary care providers can provide annual wellness exams to perform age related screening tests, discuss healthy lifestyle choices, and screen for preventable diseases.
Primary care providers can address up to 90% of your health concerns. They can manage and evaluate health concerns that arise such as the common cold, heartburn management, back pain, ankle sprains, and many others. They can also manage chronic medical conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol, and asthma.
In addition to management of chronic medical conditions, primary care providers can manage urgent care issues often keeping you out of the urgent care or emergency department. Matters such as asthma or COPD flair ups, sinus infections, or rash. Also, they can often perform minor procedures such as abscess drainage, laceration repair, and many more.
Why it’s Important to Have a Family Doctor
Starke County is a Health Professional Shortage Area, meaning that there are too few primary care providers for the number of Residents. There’s roughly 1 primary care physician for every 7,750 Starke County residents. Compare that to 1 primary care physician for every 1,510 residents in Indiana. That is a 5x disparity.
Why? Because primary care providers are experts at taking care of people in a cost-effective way. Treating conditions in their early stages before they are more complicated, often leads to better outcomes. As an example, working with your primary care provider to lower your blood pressure or control diabetes can lead to prevention of severe complications such as heart attack or stroke.
How to Schedule an Appointment with Dan
To make an appointment with Dan head over to our scheduling link. After you submit the information, Dan will reach out and offer appointment times.
Thank you for reading and I hope you have a wonderful day,
-Dan with Maple Leaf Health and Wellness