The fact that Dignity Health employs nurse practitioner Heidi Baker is enough to deter me. I was a patient of Heidi's at her last workplace, and she is not only unprofessional but downright negligent. On one visit I asked her how much it would cost to have an EKG (I'm uninsured and pay fully out of pocket), and she said she would have to check with the office manager. Through the door, I could hear her tell the manager to come in and give me the price because she couldn't "go back and forth with the nickel and dime thing."
On a prior occasion, I had called the office to ask that she change my antibiotic because I was having an adverse reaction to it (I was experiencing tachycardia.) After days went by without hearing from her or the office staff, I went to the E.R. where they changed it immediately. Her medical assistant did eventually return that call (on other occasions my calls were ignored altogether), and her message was that Heidi wanted me to continue on the antibiotic. Apparently, a patient experiencing such an adverse reaction was not worth the inconvenience of spending a few seconds writing another prescription.
That wasn't the only time Heidi cost me an unnecessary E.R. visit. Many times when I called to schedule an appointment I was told she was "on vacation," and I ended up going to the E.R (for a simple infection that became complicated due to her incompetence). Oh, and I almost forgot the best part. One E.R. visit caught a potentially serious problem which Heidi failed to diagnose.