40 Under Forty 2020: Abigail Mathews
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Abigail Mathews
- Title: Family nurse practitioner & assistant medical director
- Company: Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center, in Worcester
- Residence: Boylston
- Birthplace: Duxbury
- Colleges: Bates College, UMass Medical School Graduate School of Nursing
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Abigail Mathews helps lead the Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center’s three Worcester Public School care centers, giving her an opportunity to meet with countless students and help make sure they’re receiving regular care.
She might watch as a newborn grows into a toddler and into school age, or, when she’s not in one of the schools, follow along as a patient works to get his or her diabetes under control or develop a healthy walking habit. Those are critical parts of the health center’s mission as a place where many of the region’s disadvantaged residents turn for care. Mathews, a UMass Medical School graduate — she was the recipient of the Academic and Leadership Achievement Award when she graduated — began working at Kennedy in 2012 as a registered nurse before developing dual roles. When she’s not caring for patients as a nurse practitioner, Mathews puts on her assistant medical director hat and helps the center’s administrative functions. In that role, she is Kennedy’s family nurse practitioner residency director as the center welcomed its first class of nurse practitioner residents this summer. She’s also helped lead Kennedy’s efforts during the coronavirus pandemic to keep services going, including through telehealth appointments.
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