Jill Toliver, FNP and Gretchen Moen, PNP Owners, Nurse Practitioners Mendota Health, Eagan, MN

We opened the doors to our primary care clinic on November 4, 2002. We started this practice because we wanted to offer specialty services for women, children and their families. We didn't want to just be another family practice clinic --- we really wanted to use a nursing perspective to serve women, children and their families as our emphasis, though we will serve men too. We are a primary care clinic which will use nursing's hallmark "health promotion and disease prevention model" in a collaborative decision-making environment to augment the strictly medical model of diagnosis and cure.