Nextera Healthcare – Erie
Nextera Healthcare’s direct primary care membership for individuals, families and businesses provides a convenient, cost-effective solution for those looking to get more out of their primary care coverage.
Nextera Healthcare providers offer year-round, comprehensive adult and family primary care services, including but not limited to:
- Acute care and chronic disease management
- Allergy evaluation and management
- Dermatology
- Mental health, including treatment for depression, anxiety and other mood disorders
- School, sports and workplace physicals
- Sleep hygiene assessments and support
- Stress management
- Treatment of sprains, lacerations and broken bones
- Weight management and health risk assessment
- Women’s health
- Well checks for infants and children
- Preventive health care
- Same-day appointments or next-day appointments based on medical need.
Please call 911 in the event of a medical emergency.
In addition to the services above, Nextera Healthcare membership offers patients:
- After-hours care for more urgent medical needs (non-life threatening emergencies)
- Remote or virtual access to physicians via email or phone if you are busy or traveling
- Deeply discounted imaging and laboratory services
* The list of medical services offered may be subject to change
Our Providers
Brad Brown, DO
Erie
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Brad Brown, DO
The first two questions people often ask Dr. Brown are “how tall are you” and “did you play basketball”. Well, he is 6’7” and yes, he did play basketball in college. Now that is out of the way, on to the good stuff!
Dr. Brown attended medical school in Phoenix, where he knew right away that he wanted to care for everyone of all ages, or “womb to tomb and everything in between” as some say. As a family doc, he also works in rural emergency rooms and various hospitals in the area to keep his skills sharp. He has a passion for using lifestyle and food as medicine, and you will often hear him say “life is motion and motion is medicine”. After school, the mountains called him and his family back, and they couldn’t say no to living in Erie, CO.
Dr. Brown, his wife Dani, and their three kids have felt the heart and soul of the Erie community grow for the past few years, and they are wanting to continue to part of it both personally and professionally for decades to come. In his spare time Dr. Brown is an avid road cyclist, basketball dunker, and anything-in-the-mountains enthusiast. Although, he has been compared to a baby giraffe by other people who have watched him ski. Let’s just say it’s a work in progress.
Sara Schuster, MD
Erie
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Sara Schuster, MD, was born and raised in Littleton, Colorado where she grew up skiing, hiking, and soaking up the high-altitude sun!
She attended the Colorado School of Mines where she received her degree in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering. While obtaining her undergrad degree she also met her wonderful husband, a fellow Colorado native, avid outdoorsman, and proud Mines engineer.
Dr. Schuster loved engineering, but she knew that her passion was always in medicine. After she completed her undergrad degree, she knew that her next step would be attending medical school so that she could pursue her passion.
She attended the University of Colorado School of Medicine, where on her second day of medical school, she knew that she was meant to be a family physician. She fell in love with the idea of practicing medicine for everyone; old, young, pregnant, seriously ill, completely well, and everyone in-between! Dr. Schuster is very proud to be able to grow her passion for preventative care, full scope family medicine, and patient centered care.
Outside of medicine she loves spending time outside, mogul skiing, backpacking, practicing yoga, and cooking.