ST. LOUIS – Esse Health’s Richmond Heights Internal Medicine office welcomes board-certified internal medicine nurse practitioner Julie Jost, FNP-BC, to its office located at St. Mary’s Health Center in Richmond Heights, Mo.

Jost joins the office’s five physicians in providing quality preventive and acute care to adults. Jost graduated from the University of Missouri-St. Louis College of Nursing and is a board-certified nurse practitioner from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. She previously saw patients at Mercy Medical Center.

Richmond Heights Internal Medicine includes physicians Kathleen Brunts, M.D., Susan Colbert-Threats, M.D., Snehal Gandhi, M.D., Elizabeth Tracy, M.D., and Stanley Vriezelaar, M.D., as well as Kim Gregory, ANP, and Maureen Azzam, ANP. The office is located at 1027 Bellevue, Suite 107, in St. Louis. Appointments can be made by calling 314-645-7967.

Esse Health is a St. Louis-based, independent physician group that strives to improve the overall well-being of its patients through patient education, lifestyle modification and prevention. With 34 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 and cardiology. 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.

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