About Us

NICE TO MEET YOU

Dr. Debbie Karas APN-BC, RN 

Dr. Karas brings 30+ years of diverse and successful nursing experience to her practice and to her patients.

"We are dedicated to providing personalized care for your specific needs to young and older adults who have a variety of nursing, medical and health care needs."

A Message from Dr. Karas:

As a long term care nurse and nurse educator, the standard of nursing care has always been the mission.  I worked many hours, shifts, often double shifts of 16 hours on the floor to provide the care residents and patients needed.  Through the years, it was frustrating at times, that facilities and medical practices appeared to be more interested in money than delivery of health care as I had been trained and educated other students. 

In 1993, I opened my own nursing private practice to consult and provide direct home nursing care.  The opportunity to work at selected long term care facilities was now an option.  I have been blessed with continuing to work as a floor nurse and still continue with the current medical and nursing private practice. 

About Dr. Debbie Karas APN-BC, RN!

Dr. Karas is a Board Certified adult advance practice and gerontological nurse. Her practice encompasses clinical primary, long-term and home care. Dr. Karas brings 30+ years of diverse and successful nursing experience to her practice and to her patients. Dr. Karas is the owner of NP Healthcare & Associates, and collaborates with Steven C. Fox, D.O., a specialist in Geriatric and Disability Medicine. She is dedicated to providing natural healthy care to patients in a comfortable private setting where they can improve and regain their health.

Dr. Karas served as Chair of the Content xpert Panel for the American Nurses Credentialing Center, the panel that administers the National Gerontological Nurse Board Certification exam. She also served as adjunct faculty member at William R. Harper College as an educator and program coordinator of the Basic Nursing Assistant Training Program. She received a Certificate of Recognition for “Outstanding Performance in Clinical Education” at the Finch University of Health Sciences, Chicago Medical School. She has received honors in Phi Theta Kappa—William R Harper College; Alpha Delta Omega — Human Services Honor Society and she is currently a member of Sigma Theta Tau International — Honor Society of Nursing.

She has made numerous professional presentations and conducted many workshops for various groups and organizations. They include: the State of Illinois Police; St. Stephen Symposium–Archdiocese of Chicago; Good Shepard Hospital; Illinois Department of Labor and the White House Health Care Advisory Panel. Her experience also includes a medical mission in Central America.