10/04/2022

Experienced advanced nurse practitioners join Primary Care of Rochester

      Lori Wood                                    Jean Ball                                                                               

Two experienced advanced nurse practitioners with strong ties to the Rochester area, Jean Ball and Lori Wood, are joining Wentworth-Douglass Hospital’s newest family practice, Primary Care of Rochester.

Ball, APRN, comes from Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester, NH, where she worked as a family nurse practitioner since 2008. Prior to her time at Frisbie, Ball worked as a nurse practitioner at York Hospital in York, Maine.

Ball also has experience working as a family nurse practitioner at Sacopee Valley Health Center in Porter, Maine, and a nurse practitioner at Carroll County House of Corrections in Ossipee, NH. She also owned and operated the Davis Hill Farm assisted living home from 1997-2003.

Ball graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Boston with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. She furthered her education at the University of Lowell with a Master of Science in Gerontological, Nurse Practitioner and the University of New Hampshire with a Post Master’s in Family Nurse Practitioner.

Wood, APRN, comes from Family Care of Farmington in Farmington, NH, where she worked as a primary care provider since 1995.

Wood graduated from the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. Wood furthered her education at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell with a Master of Science in Nursing, and earned a post-graduate certification in family practice from Simmons College in Boston, Mass.

Both practitioners are accepting new patients at Primary Care of Rochester and can be contacted at (603) 516-4212.

Primary Care of Rochester, a Mass General Brigham Healthcare Center, is committed to providing outstanding primary care and preventative health care to the entire family from newborn to seniors. It is located at The Ridge Marketplace (92 Farmington Road, Route 11, Suite 9).