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Dr. Cristina Rosca Joins Staff at St. Bernards Senior Clinic
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Dr. Cristina Rosca
| Dr. Cristina Rosca, M.D., has joined the medical staff at St. Bernards Senior Health Clinic, a facility which provides comprehensive health assessments, consultations and treatments for older adults.
A board certified geriatrician, Dr. Rosca is a native of Bucharest who earned her medical degree at University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Carol Davila, in her home country before coming to the United States for further training. She served a residency in internal medicine at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, where she also served as chief resident in internal medicine. After that, she served a second residency – one in geriatrics – at Loyola University/Hines VA Hospital in Chicago.
Board certified in three areas – geriatrics, internal medicine and palliative care – she comes to St. Bernards from Mercer County Hospital in Aledo, Ill. There she served as an attending physician in internal medicine, geriatrics and palliative medicine, working with patients in the hospital setting, in outpatient clinics, in extended care as well as hospice and home health care. She also served as medical director of hospice and palliative care at that facility as well as medical director at Mercer County Nursing Home.
At Mercer County Hospital, she served as chief of the medical staff and chairman of the internal medicine department. In addition, she was the medical staff representative on the Mercer County Hospital Governing Board.
The physician, whose mother is a cardiologist and whose father is a businessman in Bucharest, has a passion for medicine. “When you care for patients, you have to know what’s going on in their lives. You don’t just give them a pill and send them out. You get to know them. You address their needs within the family. The patients become your friends.”
She blends what she calls “the best of both worlds” in terms of her training and her practice, drawing heavily on the clinical aspects of patient care learned in Romania and evidence-based medicine learned in the United States.
Dr. Rosca has special interest in fall prevention and in memory clinic work, has authored numerous articles and has made presentations on a wide variety of medical topics.
Fluent in English, German, French and Romanian, she holds professional memberships in the American College of Physicians and the American Geriatrics Society.
Dr. Rosca is seeing patients at the St. Bernards Senior Health Clinic at 303 East Matthews, Suite 201. She is one of three board certified geriatricians on staff at the Clinic. Appointments may be made by calling 336-5080 or 800-738-7421.
The Senior Health Clinic is one component of St. Bernards Senior Services, a Center of Excellence which offers a wide variety of programs that benefit older residents in Northeast Arkansas and Southeast Missouri. Other components include Senior Life Centers, St. Bernards Village, Benedictine Manor, the Center on Aging-Northeast, DayPlace, 55Plus, Home Health, Hospice, Lifeline and Meals Express.
Since 1900, St. Bernards has served as our community’s trusted provider of comprehensive, compassionate healthcare. | 
