Nurse Practitioner Joins Thompson’s Family Medicine Team

CANANDAIGUA – Family Nurse Practitioner Stephanie Friel recently joined The Mary Clark Thompson Family Practice, an affiliate of F.F. Thompson Hospital located at the Sands Family YMCA in Canandaigua.

A Canandaigua resident, Friel received her Master of Science in Nursing, as a family nurse practitioner, from Upstate Medical University (SUNY Upstate) in Syracuse. She has a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Roberts Wesleyan College and is a graduate of the Registered Nursing program at Finger Lakes Community College. She is certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

Friel first joined Thompson as a nurse assistant, later becoming a floor nurse and then a charge nurse. From 2008 through 2015, she was nurse leader of a medical/surgical unit. After becoming a service line coordinator for Thompson’s Quality and Safety Department, she served for the past seven years as the quality improvement coordinator for the department.

At The Mary Clark Thompson Family Practice, Friel joins Drs. José Canario, Kate Skipton, and Cynthia Teerlinck as well as Family Nurse Practitioner Jamie Kline and Physician Assistant Colleen Foote. For information about the practice and other locations within Thompson’s primary care network, visit www.ThompsonHealth.com/PrimaryCare.