Mabel Clinic to offer expanded hours starting Monday

Kirsten Wyffels

Beginning Monday, Winneshiek Medical Center's Mabel Clinic will be open daily weekdays from 7:30 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. and offer same day appointments as well as walk-in wellness lab testing.

The expanded hours are possible because Mabel resident Kirsten Wyffels, a Doctor of Nursing Practice, is joining ARNP Kathy Petersburg to provide family medicine care for people in the Hesper-Mabel area, Spring Grove, and southern Fillmore County.  The Mabel Clinic will provide family medicine services such as well child exams, athletic physicals, well-woman exams, care for chronic illness, immunizations, wellness labs, strep tests and offer same day appointments for illness.  

"I look forward to providing health care to the people of my own community," says Dr. Wyffels, DNP.  "Whether someone runs a daycare and has a sick child, or maybe transportation is difficult, Kathy and I can take care of them close by in downtown Mabel."  She adds, "If people are sick, we will get them seen."

Kirsten received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire and her Master of Science in Nursing with Specialization in Advanced Family Practice from Winona State University.  She then went on to earn her Doctor of Nursing Practice from Winona State University in 2009.   She is certified by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Program (AANP) as a Family Nurse Practitioner.  Most recently, Kirsten has practiced within the Gundersen Lutheran system, providing care in southeast Minnesota long term care facilities.  She also has experience in the Mayo Clinic Health System--Albert Lea Express Clinic, as Housing Manager/RN for an assisted living facility in Harmony and as adjunct faculty at Winona State University.

Kirsten has been a City of Mabel councilperson since 2004 and president of Mabel's Economic Development Authority since 2008.  She is a Sunday school instructor and a church pianist at Canton-Presbyterian Church, and is a Mabel Food Shelf volunteer.