FARMINGTON — Dr. David Rice, Franklin Memorial Hospital’s chief medical officer, announces that Nicole Ray, FNP, has been appointed to hospitalist. Hospitalists take care of hospitalized patients from admission through discharge.

Ray received her bachelor’s degree in biology from Saint Joseph’s College, followed by a nursing degree from the University of Maine at Augusta. She then completed a master’s degree in family nurse practitioner studies, also from Saint Joseph’s College, in October 2017.

She is an experienced medical/surgical nurse who previously served as the hospitalist program coordinator, assisting with day-to-day operations before serving as the charge nurse of the med/surg telemetry unit.

Ray lives in Central Maine with her husband and their two children. She enjoys spending time outdoors with her family.

Nicole Ray