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New Rexburg health clinic focuses on total health

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REXBURG – A new option for your health care needs recently opened in Rexburg.

Rachelle Jones and Rebecca Jeppson opened Vista Healthcare, an all family clinic focuses on treating not just the symptoms, but the overall patient.

Jones and Jeppson are certified family nurse practitioners. They have 45 combined years of practicing medicine. Both have backgrounds in general health and women’s health.

“Our motto is ‘wellness over everything else,'” Jones said. “We’re about health promotion, not just I’m sick, so come in, but how can we keep you healthy.”

Both Jones and Jeppson have worked in various aspects of healthcare and nursing from labor and delivery to oncology to home health until they both landed in Nurse Practitioners school at Idaho State University at the same time. They soon became study partners and both graduated in 2009. Since then, they have worked as FNP’s in the Upper Valley. They felt it was time to branch out on their own.

Both provide care specific for women. They know that will be a huge part of their clientele, but they also would like to work with the whole family in their practice.

“Because we deal with hormone management and weight management, women are our draw and population. But our expertise goes beyond women,” Jones said. “Women are our draw because we are women. We can provide compassionate care for women.”

Office manager Heidi Burrows has helped open three other clinics in the area. She says she is surprised at how many patients have already booked appointments.

“I have never seen patients hunt down their providers like their patients have. They have almost been stalking them to find them. It’s been awesome,” Burrows said. “I have never been in a practice that had booked up so fast.”

As family nurse practitioners, they do not need to have a doctor oversee them but they do collaborate with many different specialists.

“We can write prescriptions. We don’t do surgeries, but we do procedures. We refer patients to specialists. So we would send a patient to a cardiologist for a stress test or any heart issues,” Jeppson said. “We will be doing lots of infertility and student health, but we won’t be delivering babies.”

Starting a new business is a lot of work and coming up with a name that fits their practice was important to the two women. Jones and her husband came up with several names but they stayed with Vista because of its multiple meanings.

“Vista came from us wanting to see the total perspective. We want to see you through the span of your healthcare. The graphic comes from where we live, but also because in life, our health has its peaks and its dips,” Jeppson said.

Jeppson feels like she has been able to help her friends and neighbors through her love of medicine. She is excited to see where her career will go with Vista.

“I can’t go fill their potato pits, I can’t tell them what weeds they have in their yards, but I can do this. I can do healthcare,” Jeppson said.

Vista is located at 556 Trejo ST Suite B in Rexburg. Learn more on their website at https://www.vistahealthcare.org.

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