A Fairview Partners member home since 1999.

A 210 bed facility, Providence Place offers services to long term and short term care residents. Providence Place is part of the Shelter Care Foundation.

The Fairview Partners care:

LOIE LENARZ, M.D.
Fairview Health Services

“The relationship between physicians and patients is a sacred one. I believe that in all health care decisions, an individual’s needs and desires are the first priority. In order to provide quality care to patients, physicians need to know who the patient really is in mind, body and spirit.”

Education and Training
Loie Lenarz received her medical degree from the Unversity of Minnesota Medical School.
Experience
Lenarz has been a family-practice physician since 1981. Currently, along With Alison Page, Fairview's chief safety officer, Lenarz leads the Office of Clinical Affairs and serves as senior medical director of Fairview's clinics. She also serves as an adjunct clinical professor in the University of Minnesota Medical School’s Department of Family Practice and Community Health. Additionally, she continues to practice with Fairview Partners at Providence Place.
Licensure and Certifications
Lenarz is board certified in internal medicine.
Professional Associations
Lenarz is a member of the American Academy of Family Practice, the Minnesota Academy of Family Practice, the American Medical Women’s Association, Minnesota Women Physicians and the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine.
Interests
In her free time, Lenarz enjoys gardening, running, camping and spending time with her family.

LEEANN OLSON, R.N., G.N.P.
Fairview Geriatric Services
3400 West 66th Street, Suite 400
Edina, Minn 55435
(952) 836-3839

“I believe in treating the whole person; body, mind and spirit.”

Education and Training
LeeAnn Olson began her nursing career with an Associate of Science in Nursing from Anoka Ramsey Community College in 1992. Olson then went back to school and received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the College of St. Catherine in 2000, and her Master of Arts in Nursing from the College of St. Catherine in 2003.
Experience
Olson joined the Fairview Partners team in January 2007, however, she has been caring for the geriatric population since the young age of 14 when she became one of the first candy stripers at the nursing home in her home town. After her candy striper work, Olson was a nursing assistant for 13 years. She then went back to school and worked as a nurse in long term care and transitional care for six years and she then spent three years working with palliative medicine in an acute care setting at United Hospital as a GNP. Olson currently provides long term care to Fairview Partners members at Providence Place.
Licensure and Certifications
Olson is certified as a gerontological nurse practitioner by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).
Interests
Professionally, Olson enjoys working with Dementia, Parkinson’s and other related disorders. Additionally, since her work with palliative medicine, she has become interested in pain management and the geriatric population. Personally, Olson enjoys hiking the Superior National Forest trails, fishing and spending time with her family.

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