Deborah Meyers Cnp Ms, CNP, MS

Debbie Meyers CNP MS is an Adult and Pediatric Nurse Practitioner who has been practicing as a womens health care nurse practitioner for over 20 years Deb started her 35year nursing career working with the geriatric population in longterm care home health and hospice care receiving the Colorado Health Care Association Nurse of the Year Award in 1983 Her journey as a nurse practitioner took an interesting turn and led her into working with college age and later school age populations and eventually into the area of womens health She has worked at both the individual and community level Now she continues her practice in womens health at Sage Health Care She also stays active with her cherished hospice nursing conducting patient face to face visits for Montezuma Hospice in Cortez CO

Debbie began her nursing education with an Associate Degree in the Arts and Sciences and in Nursing She received her BSN at the University of the State of New York Regents program With the help of a Friends of Nursing Greta Pollard Scholarship and a Colorado Nurses Association Virginia Paulsen Rural Nursing Scholarship Deb received her masters degree in Community Health Nursing at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver in 1993 where she also received her nurse practitioner education in Adult Geriatrics and Pediatrics

Debbie was raised in Cleveland but during an interlude from college took on the role of Woodstock Hippy and traveled across the country in Benjamin Bernard her large 4 bunk bed yellow and purple interior stepup van After landing in New Orleans she learned the art of multitasking doing everything from helping to run a restaurant cooperative in the French Quarter embroidering kaftans working reservations at a Bourbon Street hotel and literally peddling ice cream off of a bicycle cart while enjoying a Sunday on the Mississippi River on the Algiers Ferryboat where she parked her bike and sold ice cream She eventually moved to Colorado Springs where she lived for 12 years received her nursing education and in 1984 found her home in Durango where she continued her education work and play

She now lives in the Turtle Lake area of Durango with her wonderful husband authorteacherfly fishing guide Steven Meyers and their 2 English Setters Panda and Quinn where she enjoys pursuits of gardening hiking and handcrafting

Debbies philosophy is to care for and be a partner in health with each woman taking the time to listen with empathy and to mutually develop practical approaches to promote balanced health and wellness in all stages of life Her wide range of nursing practice life experiences and temperament contribute to her compassionate yet pragmatic and humorous approach to health care

Deb is certified as an American Nurses Association ANCC Adult and Pediatric Nurse Practitioner now seeing patients ages 15 and up providing womens primary health care Deb is a member of the AmericanColorado Nurses Association and is currently active in the Health Coalition of SW Colorado focused on prevention early detection and support of individuals with cancer