Borgess Health adds two health care providers

Two new health care providers--Trisha Farrell and Jeffery Oney--have joined Borgess Health.

Trisha Farrell, MS, CNM, WHNP, RNC, is a nurse practitioner and is now working in the Medical Specialties Building office at Borgess Medical Center. Trisha has 25 years of experience and most recently was a school nurse at Antioch District 34, Hillcrest Elementary School, in Antioch, Ill.

She is a former Nurse Corps Officer in the United States Navy and has held women’s health nurse practitioner, RN, nurse midwife and department head positions in the Navy. She is a 2013 recipient of the Inspiration Award in Women’s Health from the Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health Organization, and a recipient of the 2010 Preceptor of the Year from the American College of Nurse Midwives.

Farrell earned a Master of Science degree from the University of California at San Francisco and her Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from the former Nazareth College in Kalamazoo.

Jeffery Oney, MSM, MS, PA-C, AT, has joined the staff of Borgess Orthopedics, part of the Borgess Bone & Joint Institute.

He previously has held clinical rotations at Borgess Women’s Health in Plainwell, Borgess Heart Center for Excellence, Borgess ProMed Family Practice, and Borgess Palliative Care. He also held clinical rotations in pediatrics, psychiatry, orthopedics, general surgery and family practice with health care providers in southwest Michigan and in Denver, Colo.

Oney was a graduate assistant athletic trainer from August 2008 to August 2010 at Western Michigan University. He is a former head athletic trainer at Benton Harbor High School in Benton Harbor. He has provided athletic training for other high schools in Michigan and Indiana. Jeffery’s athletic training experience includes providing medical coverage in 2008 and 2009 for the United States Tennis Association Junior National Championship Tournament, which takes place annually in Kalamazoo. He also served as an athletic training summer intern in 2007 with the New England Patriots in Foxboro, Mass.

Oney earned a Master of Science in Medicine-Physician Assistant Program, as well as a Master of Science in Exercise and Sports Medicine-Athletic Training, from Western Michigan University. He obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Athletic Training, Magna Cum Laude, from WMU.

Source: Borgess