December 15 was the last regular day of work for Dr. Nicole Fliss at Empire Family Care, who arrived on this scene just before Dr. Matthew Houghton closed his office in Glen Arbor. Here is how it happened, why she’s leaving now, and what the future might bring for her and the clinic.
Drs. Cyrus Ghaemi and Katie Krezoski-Evans have joined Dr. Nicole Fliss at Munson Healthcare’s family practice in Empire, which serves infants to elders. We posed the following questions to Krezoski-Evans and Ghaemi in order to get to know them.
Worried about the viability of this aging community without its long-term doctor and without a prescription shop, the Glen Lake Chamber of Commerce took the proactive step in late April of circulating an email that explored whether it should go out and recruit a new, young doctor to Glen Arbor. But the response from Chamber members was resounding: there was no need—for an energetic and dynamic young doctor had just arrived in Empire.