Aloha … from BetheNurse practitioner joins Gifford's Sharon, Rochester health centers
RANDOLPH, March 20, 2009 – Nurse practitioner Maria Cabri of Norwich has joined Gifford Medical Center’s Rochester and Sharon health centers, providing primary care to adults and adolescents.
A Yale graduate, Cabri previously worked as a certified nurse midwife for more than two decades. In 2005, she returned to school to become a nurse practitioner. She attended and graduated from the University of Vermont’s post-master’s certificate program.
She trained at Little Rivers Health Care, a federally qualified health center, in Bradford, East Corinth and Wells River. She went on to work as a nurse practitioner at Dick’s House, the student health service at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., and then for Planned Parenthood of Northern New England in Claremont, N.H., Springfield, Vt., and West Lebanon, N.H.
She also has recently worked at Gifford as a certified nurse midwife, filling in during maternity leaves.
Previously, she was a midwife at numerous hospitals, including 21 years spent at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center as midwife and assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology.
A New York native, Cabri studied liberal arts at the State University of New York, then collected her bachelor’s degree in nursing from New York University in 1979 and her master’s degree maternal and newborn care from Yale School of Nursing in New Haven, Conn., in 1982.
“I decided to become a midwife to work with women,” Cabri says. “I was drawn to midwifery and the birthing experience as a way of empowering women with their health care. And then after a couple of decades in women’s health, I became interested in broadening my knowledge and becoming involved in primary care.”
Cabri is certified by the American College of Nurse-Midwives and board certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
At Gifford, she will provide care for adults and adolescents at the Sharon Health Center three days a week and at the Rochester Health Center one day a week. Her clinical interests include general primary care and helping patients make healthy lifestyle choices.
“I think Gifford is a wonderful place,” Cabri says of joining the medical center, noting it has a friendly, small community feel. “I’ve also found it to be very supportive of its providers and employees. That’s not something you find everywhere.”
Cabri is a mother of two – a 19-year-old son currently in college and a 16-year-old daughter who is a junior in high school. Cabri enjoys the outdoors in her free time, including hiking, backcountry skiing and gardening.
To make an April appointment with Cabri, call the Sharon Health Center (802) 763-8000 or the Rochester Health center at (802) 767-3704.