From staff reports
Beaufort Memorial Heart Specialists have added a new nurse practitioner with over two decades in healthcare, expanding access to cardiovascular care for patients in the Lowcountry.
Nicole Gray, MSN, FNP-C, AGACNP-BC, is board certified as both a family nurse practitioner and an adult gerontology acute care nurse practitioner. She will see patients in the practice’s Okatie and Beaufort locations, and in the main hospital.
The U.S. Navy veteran and Buffalo, N.Y., native has a varied healthcare background, ranging from trauma care, forensic nursing to general cardiology. She has held roles not just in acute care, but administrative and director positions, too, and has experience as a clinical instructor for various graduate programs and as an educational speaker.
In 2023, Gray established a new heart failure clinic as a part of her work with the Department of Veterans Affairs in New York. She said that cardiovascular medicine can be a stressful experience for patients, and she likes to use her sense of humor to connect with patients and make them feel more comfortable.
“I treat all of my patients like they are members of my family,” she explained. “Having a sense of humor is key; I like to make them laugh and put them at ease.”
The acute care specialist will treat common cardiovascular conditions as a part of the Heart Specialists practice, including hypertension (high blood pressure), heart failure, cardiogenic shock, coronary artery disease, cardiac arrhythmias and wealth of other cardiac conditions.
Beaufort Memorial Heart Specialists is located in Beaufort at 300 Midtown Drive and in Okatie at the Okatie Medical Pavilion (122 Okatie Center Blvd. North, Suite 300; 843 770-4550).
