Nextera Healthcare – Basalt
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
Lauren Gueriera, FNP
Basalt
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Lauren Gueriera, FNP
Lauren Gueriera, FNP, is the newest provider at Premier Medical Clinic. A Family Nurse Practitioner is specially trained to provide primary health care for patients of all ages, including children. She can diagnose and treat acute and chronic medical conditions, order diagnostic tests or procedures, perform procedures like suturing or skin biopsies, and prescribe medications.
A lifelong learner and healer, Lauren earned her Master of Science from Georgetown University and her undergraduate nursing degree from Emory University in Atlanta. Her hands-on experience in healthcare is broad and deep. Experience in pediatrics, psychiatrics, home health, forensic nursing, acute rehabilitation, and oncology research are part of her impressive career.
And just as important as her top-notch education and training, patients find that Lauren has a big heart: She’s an empathetic provider with a commitment to excellence and a fundamental desire to help people achieve a high level of health and well-being.
Tim Kruse, MD
Basalt
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Tim Kruse, MD, has practiced Family Medicine in the Roaring Fork Valley since 1999. He has served as the Chairman of the Department of Medicine and as a member of the Medical Care Evaluation Committee at Valley View Hospital. Additionally, he served as a member of the Executive Committee at his former practice before founding his own practice in 2006.
After attending the first national conference on Concierge Medicine in 2005 and at the urging of many of his patients he founded the first concierge medicine practice in Colorado outside of the Denver area. “The model gives me the opportunity to go above and beyond for my patients, acting as their trusted medical advocate, getting them the care and resources they need when and where they need it. The major benefit of our practice…is time. A lack of time requires shortcuts. It breeds mediocrity. There is no substitute for time if medical excellence is the goal.”