Stephanie Friel, a family nurse practitioner, recently joined The Mary Clark Thompson Family Practice, an affiliate of F.F. Thompson Hospital located at the Sands Family YMCA in Canandaigua.
A Canandaigua resident, Friel received her Master of Science in nursing, as a family nurse practitioner, from Upstate Medical University (SUNY Upstate) in Syracuse. She has a Bachelor of Science in nursing from Roberts Wesleyan College and is a graduate of the registered nursing program at Finger Lakes Community College. She is certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
Friel first joined Thompson as a nurse assistant, later becoming a floor nurse and then a charge nurse. From 2008 through 2015, she was nurse leader of a medical-surgical unit. After becoming a service line coordinator for Thompson’s quality and safety department, she served for the past seven years as the quality improvement coordinator for the department.