MaryAnne Murray, DNP, EdD, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC, CARN-AP has lived in Western Washington since she was a small child. Twenty years ago she left the big city and has lived in a series of rural communities. When she landed on the Long Beach Peninsula eight years ago, she found her place of joy. She is self-employed in a small private practice, plus she contract her services to a residential substance use disorder treatment program where she performs a psychiatric evaluation and medication management for each client. She also does some teaching, including precepting PMHNP students.
She has undergone training in MindBody Medicine and believes that health care needs to address the needs of the whole person. Integrated care is one way to accomplish this, and this fellowship offers a model which can work effectively while leveraging the skills of a psychiatric prescriber as a consultant to assist primary care providers in helping patients achieve their goals. She hopes to do this for her hometown and other communities in her rural county. She hopes to collaborate with two primary care physicians and a cast of ancillary-skilled individuals to create an integrated care clinic which likely will serve individuals from their town as well as 0communities up to 50 miles away.
In 2026, she expects that integrative care will be the model that people demand. She predicts that unless a person has a longstanding relationship with a particular primary care provider, he or she will reject primary care options which fail to include the whole-person focus. By that time, the other primary care clinics in her rural county will have adopted our model, or ask her or her team to show them how they have accomplished it. She hopes that by 2026, her team will be able to provide this care in a cost-effective manner with appropriate reimbursement which will allow them to pay their team reasonably well, offer the best healthcare place to work, and provide the most comprehensive healthcare services in the county.