A Closer Look at Advanced Practice Providers at CVPH

Recognizing Advanced Practice Provider Week

This week we celebrate Advanced Practice Providers, or APPs, at CVPH. Every one of our APPs plays a vital role in the teams that care for our patients, and I wanted to pull back the curtain to give you a glimpse of what we do and how our roles started. To begin, APPs include nurse practitioners (NPs), certified nurse-midwives (CNMs), certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs) and physician assistants (PAs). When you hear about certified nurse-midwives (CNMs), pregnancy and childbirth [...]

APPs: A Long History of Meeting Patient Needs

Over the past several weeks we have been celebrating CVPH’s Advanced Practice Providers (APPs). Our Nurse practitioners (NPs), certified nurse-midwives (CNMs), certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs) and physician assistants (PAs) play an integral role in the high quality patient care provided here and throughout the region.  These important members on your health care team each evolved to meet the needs of their patients and community – which is in keeping with our prac [...]