Hutchison, Tracy, Kristina AB

Columbus Clinic is one of the area's largest multispecialty clinics and is located in Columbus, Ga. The clinic provides patients a variety of primary care, specialty physicians and ancillary services under one setting. Its primary care physicians oversee the different aspects of the health of patients and provide appropriate specialty care. The area of specialization includes internal medicine, family practice and pediatrics. The clinic also has specialist physicians who consult with primary care physicans and offer treatment. The hospital also provides physician assistants and nurse practitioners to provide timely patient access and prompt follow-up care. Additionally, the center has trained, credentialed technicians to provide other outpatient medical services, such as physical therapy and nuclear medicine.

Deidre Mills, CNP, has more than 20 years of professional nursing experience with backgrounds in Critical Care, Family Practice, Cardiology and Acute Care as well as Endocrinology. She completed her Associates of Science in Nursing at Chattahoochee Valley Community College, Bachelor of Science in Nursing at South University. She is currently working on her Doctorate of Nursing from South University. Mills is certified in basic and advanced cardiac life support. Deidre is married to her husband, Mark, and they have two children and two grandchildren.

Tonya Mitcham, FNP-BC, is a board certified family nurse practitioner who earned her BSN degree from the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, GA and later her MSN degree as a family nurse practitioner from Troy State University in Troy, Alabama. Tonya is certified by both the Georgia Board of Nursing and the American Nursing Credentialing Center (ANCC). She has faculty appointments as a clinical instructor at both Troy University and the Medical College of Georgia. Tonya has over 20 years clinical experience.