A founding member home of Fairview Partners.

A 134 bed facility, Edina Care and Rehabilitation Center offers services for long term and short term care residents. Edina Care and Rehabilitation Center is part of  Volunteers of America.

The Fairview Partners care team:

GRETCHEN COLE, M.D.
Fairview Geriatric Services
3400 West 66th Street, Suite 290
Edina, Minn 55345
(952) 836-3839

“My role as a physician is to help patients and their families with the many difficult decisions regarding their chronic and acute illnesses, appropriate level of care and quality of life.”  

Education and Training
Gretchen Cole has a medical degree from the University of Louisville School of Medicine. She completed her internship and residency training in internal medicine at the University of New Mexico Affiliated Hospitals.
Experience
Cole has been practicing with Fairview Geriatric Services for many years, providing care to Fairview Partners patients in both the long term and short term care setting at several nursing homes in the metro area. She is also the practicing physician for the Memory Loss Assessment Clinic. Prior to joining the Fairview team, Cole was a primary care physician with St. Joseph’s Health Care System and the Medical Network of New Mexico. She was also the Medical Director for the Senior Health Center as well as the Transitional Care Center at St. Mark’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Licensure and Certifications
Cole is board certified in internal medicine.
Professional Associations
Cole is a member of the American College of Physicians.
Interests
In her free time, Cole enjoys playing the piano, hiking, running and spending time with her two children.

ELLEN FISCHER, R.N., G.N.P.
Fairview Geriatric Services
3400 West 66th Street, Suite 400
Edina, Minn 55345
(952) 836-3839

“My focus for transitional care patients is to provide a caring bridge between their hospitalization and their return home. I focus on proving caring support for patients and their families as they move through the last stages of life.”

Education and Training
Ellen Fisher began her career in nursing with a associate’s degree from Marshalltown Community School of Nursing in 1976. She then went back to school in 1998 to get her bachelor’s in nursing from the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire and her master’s in nursing in 2000.
Experience
Fisher has many of years of experience working in the hospital setting in medical surgical units, orthopedics, intensive care, emergency care as well as out patient surgery. She also has experience in transitional care in the long term care setting.
Licensure and Certifications
Fisher is certified as an adult nurse practitioner by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).
Professional Associations
Fisher is a member of the American College of Nurse Practitioners (ACNP).
Interests
In her free time, Fisher enjoys spending time with her family, reading, walking and doing bead work.

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