Fran Rademacher Discontinuing Iola Practice, Others to Serve Patients
Fran Rademacher will have many memories about his time at ThedaCare Physicians-Iola. The strongest memory is of how friendly the community is. A walk through the waiting room, where patients are talking comfortably with one another, was much like walking into a living room at a person’s home, he said. “You could tell the people have been coming there for a long time and have a strong connection,” said Rademacher, a nurse practitioner at Iola for over 10 years. “The people are so great. I hate to leave Iola.”
Rademacher is going part-time with ThedaCare and discontinuing his Iola practice. But he knows the people of Iola will be in good hands with his replacement, Stephanie Doine, APNP, who has over 20 years of experience and is a retired Army Nurse Corps officer. Nurse practitioners Heather Gruszynski and Joy Kobiske continue to serve patients in Iola. “I think Stephanie will be well received,” he said. “She seems like she would enjoy it. And she certainly enjoys people.”
When he started in Iola, he worked three days a week at the clinic, which had another nurse practitioner and a couple physicians. He was also working in Waupaca during the week so eventually he went to Friday mornings in Iola. “I was so busy in Waupaca that it was actually a little hard to have so much work at two sites,” he said, noting he will continue to practice in Waupaca three days a week.
Doine is excited to meet the patients in Iola. Over the summer, she bought a house in Iola. She also works at the Waupaca clinic. She feels patients deserve quality care and attention. “I care for patients as if they were my own family members or how I would like my family to be cared for,” she said.
Now that she has moved to the area, Doine looks forward to the “opportunity to care for people within the community that I reside,” she said.
ThedaCare™ Physicians includes more than 144 employed physicians and 70 nurse practitioners and physician assistants at 22 locations throughout the region and includes specialists in family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, sports medicine, rehabilitation, orthopedics and general surgery. There is also a FastCare clinic located in Shawano. According to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, ThedaCare Physicians is also the nation’s leader in implementing Open Access, same-day appointment services for its patients. ThedaCare Physicians is also the leader in implementing an electronic medical records system, including a patient portal called MyThedaCare, that allows patients to access their medical information, request appointments, refill prescriptions, and consult their physician from their home computer.
ThedaCare™ is a community health system consisting of five hospitals: Appleton Medical Center, Theda Clark Medical Center, New London Family Medical Center, Shawano Medical Center, and Riverside Medical Center in Waupaca. ThedaCare also includes ThedaCare Physicians, ThedaCare Behavioral Health, and ThedaCare At Home. ThedaCare is the largest employer in Northeast Wisconsin with more than 6,175 employees. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
