Oswego Health brought on Helena Chiles to its mental health and wellness team.
With her extensive education, training and clinical experience, Chiles is poised to be a key provider in the ongoing mission to deliver comprehensive and patient-centered mental health care to the community, according to the hospital. Chiles will serve outpatients 18 years and older at the Lobdell Center for Mental Health & Wellness at Lakeview in Oswego.
Chiles holds a Master of Science in nursing as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner from Vanderbilt University in Nashville. She specializes in diagnosing and treating mental health conditions, emphasizing patient-centered care and evidence-based therapeutic interventions. She also completed her Bachelor of Science in nursing at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, in its FACT-1 accelerated one-year program and holds a post-baccalaureate certificate from Thomas Jefferson University’s P4 accelerated one-year program.
Before joining Oswego Health, she worked at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where she served as a registered nurse in the medical behavioral unit. Her earlier career included clinical roles in adult and pediatric care and experience in the pharmaceutical industry, where she worked in sales and training to promote medical devices and medications.
Chiles’s credentials include being an ANCC board-certified psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner and registered nurse licenses in New York, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee. She is also trained in advanced cardiac life support, pediatric advanced life support and suicide prevention, among other certifications.