ST. LOUIS – Esse Health’s Southside Family Practice welcomes board-certified family medicine nurse practitioner Mary Keane, FNP-BC, to its office located at St. Mary’s Health Center in Richmond Heights, Mo.

Keane works with the office’s five physicians and two physician assistants to provide quality preventive and acute care to patients of all ages. After obtaining her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Bradley University in Peoria, Ill., Keane completed the critical care fellowship at Mercy Hospital in St. Louis. Her nursing experience includes critical care and post-anesthesia care. Keane’s clinical experience as a nurse practitioner is primarily focused on family care and public health.

Southside Family Practice includes physicians Brett Foersterling, M.D., Audrey Montooth, M.D., Steve Nester, M.D., Robert Pozzi, DO, Jennifer Sewing, DO, as well as Emily Bira, PA, Marian Gakes, PA, and Lisa Schultz, FNP. The office is located at 1031 Bellevue, Suite 300, in St. Louis. Appointments can be made by calling 314-647-9444.

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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