St. Louis - Esse Health welcomes board-certified nurse practitioner Danielle Cichowic, MSN, RN, ANP-BC, to its staff. Cichowic will join the Esse Health Florissant Internal Medicine team located at 1225 Graham Road, Building C, Suite 1330, Florissant, MO 63031.

Cichowic is an adult health primary care nurse practitioner specializing in preventive health care and diabetes management. Previously, she served as a nurse practitioner in internal medicine and express care at the Cleveland Clinic, and prior to that was a clinical nurse at the Hospital of University of Pennsylvania. A member of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, Cichowic is a graduate of Villanova University. She is the 2011 recipient of the Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses National Scholarship.

The Esse Health Florissant Internal Medicine Office includes board-certified physicians Dennis Patton, M.D., John Rice, M.D., Joyce Boehmer, M.D., Julie MacPhee, M.D., Scott Anderson, M.D., and Susan Reber Adams, M.D., and registered dietician Marjorie Maxwell, RD. Appointments can be made with the Florissant office by calling 314.838.5702.

Esse Health is a St. Louis-based, independent physician group that strives to improve the overall well-being of it's patients through patient education, lifestyle modification and prevention. With 35 locations throughout the St. Louis and Metro East area, Esse Health's services include asthma, allergy and immunology, family medicine, internal medicine, nutrition, pediatrics, radiology, urology, cardiology, and gastroenterology. Esse Health is recognized as a leader in using technology in health care and physician accountability for both quality and cost-of-care. For more information on Esse Health, visit www.essehealth.com