Speaker: DEDE ECHITEY
Tell us who you are, what you do, and a bit about your practice, including what state you practice in and the types of patients you see.
DEDE ECHITEY: Hello, my name is Dede Echitey Uh and I'm a family uh psychiatry nurse practitioner. Uh uh My practice name is TIKVAH Psychiatry. Um So I started back in January uh 2024. Uh It's a virtual, I'm not doing any in, in person. Uh Yeah, in person session. Yeah. Uh So the state I practice in uh um New York, uh Texas, uh Florida and Virginia. Most of the patients are, I'm seeing are not complex patient. more like anxiety, depression. Basically any mood disorder. I'm not doing any extreme case of like schizophrenia, very, very extreme case um that need maybe inpatient stuff like that. So I, I can, if they are already stable, I can continue the medication. And also I don't diagnose ad ad um but if the patient are already on medication and they need to continue continuous treatment, I, I'm able to do that for them. But uh uh I'm flexi I'm flexible. I can, I'm flexible with scheduling and now I'm here to work with the patient because my goal is to provide hope, hope to our patient because I know mental health can be very very still a stigma. So my goal is to lift that stigma so we can provide uh a care that our patient need. Thank you.
How has your journey been as a practice owner? What's been your biggest challenge?
DEDE ECHITEY: Uh I have uh I'm working right now with two insurance company to do the credentialing. So hopefully within this month, a couple of months, I will start getting enough patients so um so the business can bring money. So I don't have to work that those many hours. Thank you.
What piece of advice do you have to future NP/PA entrepreneurs?
DEDE ECHITEY: My advice to the future NP entrepreneur is to be patient and ready to invest money.
Tell us about your experience using Collaborating Docs for your collaborating physician:
DEDE ECHITEY: I have good experience with collaborating though. I, my physician is good uh with this. Since I don't have enough patient, there's no much to do, but so far so good, it was easy, it was easy process. So that's good.
Promote your practice! How can new patients find you and book an appointment? Where can they follow you online?
DEDE ECHITEY: Yes, TIKVAH Psychiatry. So once you tap in TIKVAHpsychiatry.com, uh you go, you click on the link. You see our web page. My picture is there too and it will say book uh book an appointment. Once you click there, it will ask you for your information. And once you, oh, I see that because once he give you the, you fill out the information, uh it will give me some me, you will send me a message and I can call you to so we can confirm the appointment. Also at the bottom of the page, you have my the clinic uh phone number there. So you're welcome to call me it. I'm very, very flexible with my patients. So uh I can see you as soon as possible.
