Contacts: CRNA Program Director
Mark A. Foster, CRNA, MA
Peter Baziotis, MD, Medical Director
Phone: 401-729-2485
Fax: 401-729-3476
Email: foster@mhri.org
Web: http://www.mhri.org/anesth

NEASRNA Representative:
Jessica Heaney

Degree: MS in Nurse Anesthesia
Program length: 28 months
Starting month: September

Contacts:CRNA Program Director
Jonathan Cornwell, CRNA, MSNA
Phone: 401-456-3639
Fax: 401-752-8140
Email: saintjoes@aol.com
Web: http://www.sjhsan.com

NEASRNA Representative:
Terez Thomas

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Trish Labieniec and NEASRNA President Chris LaBarge
at the Fall 07 NEANA Conference

What is a CRNA?

• Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) are advanced practice nurses who administer approximately 65% of all anesthetics given to patients each year in the United States.
• We have been providing anesthesia care in the United States for over 125 years. Nurses first provided anesthesia to wounded soldiers during the Civil War.
• More than 90% of this country’s nurse anesthetists are members of the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists.  CRNAs are the sole anesthesia providers in approximately two thirds of all rural hospitals in the United States, enabling these healthcare facilities to offer obstetrical, surgical, and trauma stabilization services. In some states, CRNAs are the sole providers in nearly 100% of the rural hospitals.
• CRNAs provide anesthetics to patients in collaboration with surgeons, anesthesiologists, dentists, podiatrists, and other qualified healthcare professionals.When anesthesia is administered by a nurse anesthetist, it is recognized as the practice of nursing; when administered by an anesthesiologist, it is recognized as the practice of medicine.
• CRNAs practice in every setting in which anesthesia is delivered: traditional hospital surgical suites and obstetrical delivery rooms; critical access hospitals; ambulatory surgical centers; the offices of dentists, podiatrists, ophthalmologists, plastic surgeons, and pain management specialists; and U.S. Military, Public Health Services, and Department of Veterans Affairs healthcare facilities.