Agency will work with graduate of Penn’s nurse-practitioner program
Adriane Tuttle will be working with La Comunidad Hispana as a nurse-practitioner through a new partnership with the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center.
La Comunidad Hispana (LCH) has announced a new partnership: a nurse-practitioner initiative with the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center that will begin Monday.
The agency will work with Adriane Tuttle, a board-certified family nurse practitioner who joined the Penn Health Center earlier this year as part of the university’s inaugural Nurse Practitioner Residency program.
“LCH’s goal is to expand our health-care services to our constituents,” said Margarita Queralt Mirkil, chief executive officer of La Comunidad Hispana. “Having Adriane Tuttle with us biweekly for clinical rotations is a big step toward meeting our goal.”
Tuttle will also be part of the rotation at the Puentes de Salud (Bridges of Hope) clinic in South Philadelphia through Penn’s Department of Emergency Medicine. “LCH and Puentes de Salud serve similar communities,” Mirkil said. “Her experience working in South Philadelphia and Southern Chester County will benefit the patients at both facilities.”
The Nurse Practitioner Residency Program was formed to educate, mentor and develop new nurse practitioners in the workforce. The focus of the LCH clinic is on primary care, including pediatric and adolescent care, and complementary services. Across the country nurse practitioners are taking the place of doctors in clinics as there is a lack of doctors for clinics.
Tuttle graduated cum laude with a bachelor of arts in biology and Spanish from Claremont McKenna College in California. As a Fulbright scholar in Colombia, Tuttle studied women’s health issues, collaborating with a mobile health team that worked in impoverished neighborhoods on the outskirts of Bogota.
Before beginning her graduate studies, Tuttle ran a health-education program in a Brooklyn, N.Y., public high school. She has also worked as an HIV research coordinator in Boston for the PACT Project, a health program for underserved residents. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor of science in nursing, earning membership in Sigma Theta Tau, an international nursing honor society.
La Comunidad Hispana was established in 1973 as a community-based nonprofit organization to empower immigrants and low-income residents in Chester County to stay healthy, build strong families and lead productive, fulfilling lives. LCH is a culturally competent, bilingual, bicultural agency that reflects the community it serves. For more information, go to www.lacomunidadhispania.org or call 610-444-7550, ext. 243.
