UMaine Nursing Alumna At White House To Discuss Affordable Care Act
Margaret “Miki” Macdonald, a 1998 graduate of the UMaine School of Nursing’s master’s degree program, will be at the White House Tuesday, September 28, to meet with First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Mary Wakefield, the administrator of the Health Resources Service Administration, to talk about the Affordable Care Act.
Macdonald, who is the Maine representative to the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, will participate in a 2 p.m. conference call with other nurse practitioners to discuss how nurses can help educate their patients about the new protections and benefits under ACA. Macdonald was just one of two nurse practitioners from across the country invited to the White House.
The past president of the Maine Nurse Practitioners Association, Macdonald is a family nurse practitioner at St. Joseph Internal Medicine in Bangor.