Grove is the single thread that connects life and care together.
Dedicated Care Team
Your Grove care team will work with you to create a personal plan that feels just right.
Access to Care
- Same day and urgent appointments
- Longer appointment times
- Dedicated care coordinator
Support for Caregivers
At Grove, we're passionate about making you feel well-taken care of and understood.
Charlotte Carlson, M.D., MPH is a UCSF-trained geriatrician and internal medicine physician committed to improving the lives of those with serious illness and disability. She is a nationally recognized Tideswell Emerging Leader in Aging with expertise in directing medical teams to integrate primary medical care with supportive social services and home care. Her team’s goal is to help older adults to live in their own homes and stay rooted in their communities.
Peter joins the Grove team with over 15 years of experience in healthcare. Originally a native of Minnesota, he earned his associate and baccalaureate nursing degrees in Pittsburgh, PA and his master's degree as a geriatric nurse practitioner from UC-San Francisco. Peter has worked in diverse environments including inpatient, intensive care, primary care, cardiac, gastrointestinal, and transport medicine.
Christi Silano, AGNP-BC is board certified as an Adult/Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner through the American Nurses Credentialing Center. She completed her Masters of Science in Nursing at The University of Hawaii. She leverages her extensive experience as a registered nurse in the critical care setting to help provide excellent, proactive primary care for older adults and their loved ones. She passionate about comprehensive, ongoing advance care planning that honors the whole person. She has served as a volunteer with Kokua Mau, a Hawaii- based non-profit that helps promote advance care planning in the community. During her time at the Queens Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, she was nominated for a hospital wide Nursing Excellence Award in Leadership and the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses.
Julia Leonardi-Holzapfel is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has extensive experience working with older adults in a healthcare setting. Julia completed her Masters of Social Work at California State University, Sacramento. Julia gravitates towards using cognitive behavioral and strength based approaches in her work and has experience working with people experiencing diverse medical and mental health diagnoses. Julia is passionate about working as a member of an interdisciplinary health care team to provide wraparound services to older adult patients. In her spare time Julia enjoys going on walks with her dog, being in nature, and gardening.
Michelle is a California Certified Medical Assistant with a specialized Associates Degree, with 22 years of experiences in family medicine and Geriatric care. Michelle is passionate about advocating for her patients and spending quality time with each of them listening to their wonderful life stories. Raised locally in Sebastopol she enjoys camping and bike riding with her husband and two sons.Philanthropy
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