Patient-focused care is the goal of Certified Nurse Practitioner Stacey Lloyd with Adena Internal Medicine located in Chillicothe, Ohio. Being a nurse practitioner allows Stacey to combine her love for teaching patients and focusing on wellness and disease prevention with the ability to treat patients when they are sick. Stacey is trained to care for patients of all ages and can treat both acute and chronic illnesses, provide immunizations, manage high blood pressure, diabetes, depression and help patients and families regarding healthy lifestyles and health care choices. 

The Adena Medical Group – which includes Adena Internal Medicine – is growing to provide resources to help patients stay in the local community for treatment instead of traveling.  Attending church and participating in other community activities helps Stacey and other Adena providers get to know their patients in settings outside the health clinic.

Stacey feels it is critical to develop a good and trusting relationship with her patients based on patients’ specific health needs and conditions as well as their unique life situations and their desired outcomes.   Nurse practitioners were nurses first, Stacey says, which means she was taught to treat the whole patient for their healthcare needs, not just a specific illness.

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