Anna Maria hires medical staff.PAXTON - Anna Maria College Anna Maria College is a four-year Catholic liberal arts college, founded in 1946 and located in the rural town of Paxton, Massachusetts. The school's 180-acre campus is situated a few miles away from the city of Worcester. has hired Linda L. Aronson, nurse practitioner nurse practitioner n. Abbr. NP A registered nurse with special training for providing primary health care, including many tasks customarily performed by a physician. , as its new director of health services health services Managed care The benefits covered under a health contract and Leonard Waice, doctor of osteopathic medicine
 Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O. , as its supervising physician.
Ms. Aronson's hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Mondays through Fridays in the health services center. Dr. Waice is available three hours a week on campus. Ms. Aronson replaces Sandra A. Stern, who left the college last October. Since then, students who needed medical care had to go to UMass Memorial Medical Center - University Campus in Worcester. The college previously did not have a doctor on campus. With 20 years' experience in the medical field, Ms. Aronson was a lead practitioner in the Women's Health Initiative Women's Health Initiative A 15-yr, $628 million project involving 1. An observational study of the health habits and medical Hx of ±100,000 ♀ 2. from 1995 to 2001 and lead coordinator and nurse practitioner for Fallon Clinic from 2001 to 2006. Dr. Waice is a physician in Holden, certified in family practice and osteopathic medicine. He received his medical degree from the University of New England's College of Osteopathic Medicine and interned at Lansing General Hospital in Lansing, Mich. |
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