Welcome to Anderson Family Health Specialists!

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Our physicians are pleased to partner with Dr. Herodotou of Diabetes and Endocrinology Associates. Dr. Herodotou comes to our office each week to treat our diabetic patients so that travel outside the city is not necessary. Please visit Diabetes and Endocrinology Associates for more information.

You can send us questions, request prescription refills, request appointments, receive test results, or report home testing results to us—all through secure e-mail. We have also included links to other Web sites that we feel will offer further information and education for our patients.

Our physicians and staff are dedicated to providing you with an exceptional patient experience in a warm and caring atmosphere and look forward to your visit. Our patients are "special" at Anderson Family Health Specialists.

All our physicians also see patients at Community Hospital Anderson, which was recently ranked as a 5 Star hospital:

Community Anderson was one of only 5 out of 22 hospitals in central Indiana and the only hospital in Madison county to receive a 5 Star recognition in the treatment of both heart attack and failure. Read more >>

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Putting Patients First: PRIIDE Hero Anita Brenner

When Anita Brenner, LPN, found out she had won the PRIIDE Heroes award for exemplifying the value of putting patients first, she was “shocked.” “I thought, why me?” she says. “It just blew my mind. What I did seems like such a small thing. I feel honored. I feel humbled.”

It may seem like a small thing to Brenner, a triage nurse at Anderson Family Health Specialists, but the way she goes about her work makes a huge difference in the lives of patients on the receiving end of her generosity. Earlier this year a patient was in need of home oxygen. After being released from a nursing home, the patient was having trouble breathing. Brenner couldn’t find anyone who was available to take the patient’s O2 saturation level so she could obtain the order.

“The patient was really upset, and the family didn’t know what to do,” Brenner says.

Instead of leaving it at that, Brenner asked if she could take the office’s oximetry machine to the patient’s house and perform the test, and after doing so, called in the results the next morning.

“Anita did this on her own time, which displays service above and beyond,” says Brenner’s nominator. “This was not an ‘on her way home’ type service. Anita went out of her way to get the patient what she needed. This is only one instance of Anita’s care and compassion for patients.”

Last Christmas, Brenner discovered a patient’s husband had just lost his job and there wasn’t enough money to put food on the table. After work, Brenner bought and delivered groceries to them. “I didn’t tell her I was going to do it,” she says. “I was afraid she would tell me not to. There are so many people in need now, and I don’t like to see anybody in need. My husband says I can’t feed the whole world, but I can feed a little bit of it.”

Brenner, who wanted to be a nurse ever since she was in grade school, lives in Daleville with her husband of 43 years. She has three children and 11 grandchildren. For 18 years, she has worked at Anderson Family Health Specialists, quietly doing good deeds for others, including providing surgery patients with books to read while recuperating and delivering orders to patients who can’t pick them up at the office.

“Patients come first,” she says. “They need us, and we should be there for them. If I have the resources to help someone, I’m willing to do it and I’m glad to do it.”

Her generosity extends to her coworkers as well. She has sent flowers to so many of them during times of crisis, her florist nicknamed her “the Flower Lady.”