With the enthusiasm and vigor of an Energizer bunny, Dr. Paige Dekker leads maine done the corridors of Estes Park Health arsenic we look for a workable determination for her photo.
The twins successful friends’ jackets astatine the Pumpkin & Pilsners festival successful downtown Estes Park this year. (Dr. Paige Dekker/Courtesy photo)We caput outdoors to the beforehand of the infirmary and past locomotion astir the backmost to the exigency country doors. Surprisingly determination were fewer places with a smaller logo to usage arsenic a backdrop, but Dekker was each giggles astir having a photograph taken, showing signs of nerves erstwhile worrying astir however to sit, what to deterioration and if she should support connected her badge.
The enthusiasm and vigor of a young doc was refreshing, invigorating and uplifting.
And that is precisely what Dekker brings to her signifier benignant too.
“I americium looking guardant to gathering semipermanent relationships with my patients,” said Dekker. “I similar to speech and being astatine a smaller assemblage infirmary is simply a bully mode to spot patients for longer periods of clip to supply much diligent care.”
Dekker, who is primitively from Connecticut, started her way to becoming a doc by finishing a Bachelor of Science grade successful biology astatine Coastal Carolina University successful South Carolina. She went to Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine successful South Carolina earlier transferring to Tacoma Family Medicine successful Tacoma, Wash. for her residency.
Family photograph from Tacoma earlier the Dekkers moved to Estes Park. (Dr. Paige Dekker/Courtesy photo)It was successful that affable larboard metropolis connected Washington’s Puget Sound that Dekker met her aboriginal husband, Pep.
Her look lights up erstwhile she talks astir him arsenic she reiterated the stories down the photos she had successful her bureau of her and their increasing family.
“I met him connected Valentine’s Day successful 2020 astatine a bar,” said Dekker. “The spot was packed and conscionable by coincidence we sat adjacent to each different astatine a tiny table. Turned retired helium lived successful the aforesaid analyzable arsenic maine and I had ne'er adjacent met him.”
They were joined by October of that year. Nine months later, identical duplicate girls arrived.
After aesculapian school, Dekker worked successful telehealth but erstwhile she joined Dekker and they learned they were expecting, they moved to Estes Park wherever Pep’s parents settled aft they retired.
She continued to enactment successful telehealth erstwhile the occupation astatine Estes Park Health opened up.
Pep carrying the babies connected 1 of the Dekker’s backcountry camping trips this summertime to Sandbeach Lake. (Dr. Paige Dekker/Courtesy photo)“I emotion the tiny municipality consciousness of Estes Park,” said Dekker. “It gets you to instrumentality amended attraction due to the fact that you cognize the patients personally, they are friends, you cognize their family.”
As a board-certified household medicine physician, Dekker provides newborn to end-of-life care.
“I americium passionate astir preventive care,” said Dekker. “My ma died unexpectedly successful 2012 astatine property 55. So overmuch of my mom’s wellness issues could person been prevented but she was taking attraction of my grandma and didn’t absorption connected her ain health.”
This past summer, Dekker spent a batch of clip helping astatine the Urgent Care Center.
“I americium ever excited to get patients to bash their screenings,” said Dekker. “I similar procedures truthful moving astatine urgent attraction gave maine adjacent much opportunities to assistance patients.”
Dekker went on, arsenic she continued to beam her warm, sincere smile, to explicate however she ne'er wants patients to consciousness overwhelmed. She wants to instrumentality things 1 measurement astatine a clip creating manageable attraction plans for each diligent to get them backmost to a healthy, progressive lifestyle.
In her spare time, Dekker goes backpacking, camping and does a batch of traveling with Pep and her kids. The twins are the archetypal grandchildren for Pep’s parents, truthful the household spends a batch of prime clip together. That work-life equilibrium is important to the Dekkers and it shows successful her committedness to prime attraction and a prime of beingness present successful Estes Park.
To marque an assignment with a household medicine doc astatine Estes Park Health, telephone 970-586-2200.
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