A new practitioner has been hired by Alaska Island Community Services in Wrangell. Cynthia Mattoni is the community health center’s new advanced nurse practitioner, specializing in family practice.
Mattoni comes from Cleveland, Ohio, where she has five years’ experience in the emergency room. Her career in the medical field began in 1987, when she joined the United States Navy as a hospital corpsman. She then worked for 18 years in various critical and emergency care settings as a registered nurse.
The addition of her position will help provide additional capacity for AICS, scheduling appointments during the day, seeing patients for acute illnesses such as the common cold, influenza, pink eye, rashes and infections. Other chronic or ongoing conditions and those requiring medication will continue to be managed by the patient’s primary care provider.
The new hire is expected to lessen current wait times, allow for more appointments to be made during the day, and is a response to patient feedback.
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