(Panel: Cuts to Medicaid and Closing Rural Clinics and Hospitals)

Kevan Coffey DNP

Dr. Coffey is a primary care nurse practitioner and the Medical Director of the Family Health Centers, a federally qualified community health center system in Okanogan and Douglas Counties in North Central Washington.

She has an undergraduate degree in psychology and completed her Master of Science at Yale School of Nursing with a specialization in adult and women’s health. She then completed her Doctorate of Nursing Practice degree at the University of Washington with a focus in geriatrics. Dr. Coffey’s professional interests include primary and rural healthcare, health equity, and health policy that improves access to care for rural and underserved populations.

She is an alum of the Clinical Scholars program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a three-year national leadership program for interdisciplinary teams of health providers led by UNC and funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.