NPower Healthcare

01/26/2026

NPower host Deb Tedesco, moderator Arlene Wright, and nurse practitioner leaders, Monica Barfield and Elizabeth Winings discuss HB 301, proposed Florida legislation to expand autonomous practice authority for psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners, aiming to improve access to behavioral healt...

01/18/2026

NPower Host Deb Tedesco interviews nurse practitioner Ruthi Estabrook about her work founding TrustPoint Primary Care and challenging a Medicaid network denial by documenting how provider directories fail real patients. The episode explores how closed or inaccessible networks harm chronic-disease ca...

01/16/2026

Another example of NP Leadership.

12/25/2025

NPower Healthcare's Deb Tedesco sits down with Dr. John Rothwell, DNP, APRN, to explore his path from military medic to owner of a successful direct primary care clinic. They discuss the DPC membership model, DNP leadership, and how nurse practitioners can build relationship-driven, accessible care....

12/20/2025

NPower host, Deb Tedesco interviews nurse practitioner Natalie Tyler about ThriveWell Medical Center in Immokalee, Florida,  an NP-led clinic serving a medically underserved community that faces widespread insurance credentialing denials and closed panels, causing delayed care and travel burden...

12/06/2025

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🚗✨ Last week was Older Driver Safety Awareness Week, but at FNPN, we’re keeping the momentum going all month long! 🎉

🩺 If you’re a nurse practitioner, now’s a great time to check out the resources from Safe Mobility for Life Coalition and share them with your patients. From self-assessment tools to guidance on transitioning driving responsibilities, there’s something for every older driver and caregiver.

🔗 Explore the free materials here: https://www.safemobilityfl.com/ODSAW2025/ODSAW2025.htm

Let’s help older adults stay safe, mobile, and independent, and empower you to be a trusted resource for them.

Please share this information or tag someone you think can use it!

12/06/2025

In this episode of NPower Healthcare, a Florida mother, Vanessa Mahai, shares how an insurance company’s termination of her sons’ nurse practitioner, Elizabeth Barger, abruptly cut off trusted, ongoing care for her children,  one with ADHD and anxiety and the other recently diagnose...

11/23/2025

In this episode NPower Healthcare's Deb Tedesco talks with Maddie Kelly, a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner who brings in‑home psychiatric and primary care to rural, homebound, and assisted living patients in Florida. They discuss the real harm caused by insurer network terminations, t...

11/16/2025

Join NPower Healthcare host Deb Tedesco to hear about access to healthcare in Apopka, Florida. After a mass layoff left nearly 10,000 patients without primary care, Kristen Roberts, APRN, launched a telehealth practice and then Family First Health to keep her community covered. The episode follows h...

11/16/2025

NPower Healthcare host, Deb Tedesco interviews Brandi Rhody, APRN, about pervasive insurance credentialing delays that block patient access to care at her new Florida practice. The episode covers denied applications, automated rejections, patient-led breakthroughs, insurer contradictions, and the le...

11/11/2025

Welcome to NPower Healthcare with Deb Tedesco and Dr. Alicia Gill Rossiter. This episode explores Dr. Rossiter’s military-to-academic journey, the V‑Care Veteran-to‑BSN pathway, veteran-informed clinical care, barriers veterans face entering nursing, and practical steps nurse practitioners...

11/09/2025

In this episode of NPower Healthcare, nurse practitioner and clinic owner Heather Taylor shares her experience of being terminated from a Medicare Advantage network by Humana, and the devastating impact that decision has on patients who rely on long-term, trusted relationships with their provider. H...