BRMC's BRMS OB/Gyn Practice Welcomes Nurse Practitioner

Officials at Bradford Regional Medical Center are announcing the addition of a nurse practitioner for local obstetric, gynecologic and women's health consumers. Lucinda Harden, CCRN, WHNP-BC, has joined the practice of BRMS OB/Gyn in the Suzzalo Medical Arts Building, 159 Interstate Parkway in Bradford. Ms. Harden will provide services to patients of Kenneth B. Goodrich, M.D. The medical practice, located across the street from BRMC, can be reached by calling (814) 368-5000. New patients are being accepted.

Ms. Harden is a graduate in the master's degree nursing program and Women's Health Nurse Practitioner Program from the State University of New York at Buffalo in Buffalo, NY.

She is certified in women's health by the American Nurses Credentialing Center and is certified in critical care nursing by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) Certification Corporation.

Most recently, Ms. Harden provided critical care nursing services to patients in State College, PA. Last year, she served as a Women's Health Nurse Practitioner for Kaleida Health in Buffalo, N.Y., providing gynecological care to adults and adolescents. From 2006 to September 2008, Ms. Harden was a registered nurse for Kaleida Health in Buffalo, serving as a staff/charge nurse in the Cardiac Monitoring Unit and caring for post-operative cardiothoracic, general surgery and Neurosurgical ICU patients. Starting in August 2007, she worked as a staff nurse/charge nurse in the Open Heart Unit and Surgical ICU.

For three years starting in 2003, and from May to December 2008, Ms. Harden served as a Women's Health Nurse Practitioner for the Allegany County Department of Health in Belmont, NY where her responsibilities included providing gynecological care to 1,100 adolescents and adults in three offices. In 2006, she was given the Allegany County Screen for Health Partnership Provider of the Year award. From 2002 to 2003 she served as a Women's Health Nurse Practitioner for Planned Parenthood in Buffalo.