BY MELANIE BUCK –
Healthy Connections, Inc.’s [HCI] CEO Tony Calandro has announced that Gretchen Goodnight, APN-C will be joining the staff of HCI. Goodnight will be accepting new patients for family practice of all ages at Healthy Connection, Inc., – Mena Street Clinic beginning August 17.
Goodnight grew up in Pine Ridge, Arkansas and graduated from Oden High School. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing and Master’s of Science in Nursing from the University of Central Arkansas in Conway. She has been providing family practice care to her patients for over four years after returning to Mena in 2009. Gretchen has been married for nine years to her husband, Justin, and they have three children.
Healthy Connections, Inc., released a statement saying they are, “very excited to add Ms. Goodnight to our Mena Street Clinic along with Dr. Patrick Fox and Ms. Kara Tedford, APRN.”
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