For the past 15 years, Billie Dawn Stokes and Jeanie Wadlington have developed a close friendship — Cadiz natives who have turned to nursing as lifetime careers.
Now, they’re building a family business together.
Set to open October 1 at 104 Commerce Street (just behind Hancock’s and to the left of the Trigg County Sheriff’s Office), Wadlington and Stokes are proud owners of Infinity Family Care PLLC — in what they hope will be the fullest realization of their pursuits in local health.
Serving those 6 months old through a full lifespan, the duo will schedule everything from annual visits, Medicare wellness visits and in-house laboratory work to same-day appointments, COVID-19 and flu testing, sutures and other pop-up, unexpected health concerns that may need assessment.
The clinic will also test for RSV, strep and will have flu shots available soon — as they’re already on order.
Anything and everything families need can be brought to the door, and if referrals are necessary, their combined 45 years of medical experience and connection will play a role.
Wadlington noted the main goal is to remain proactive, and prevent the excessive needs of hospital care.
Stokes and Wadlington, both APRNs, purchased the building — once owned by longtime local dentist Dr. Dawn Rose — this past July, with Stokes’ family helping expedite renovations.
But this hasn’t been some knee-jerk plan.
Stokes was working EMS at Trigg County Hospital as a 19-year-old when she first met Wadlington, and her medical career has rolled since. She first started out in local veterinary clinics and learned agronomy basics at Hopkinsville Community College under current Christian County magistrate Jerry Gilliam before earning an agronomy degree at Murray State University.
It’s around this time, Stokes said, she “started to fall in love with medicine and taking care of people.”
She returned to Murray State to become an RN and worked at Baptist Health in Paducah, then moved to Texas and worked in medical-surgical nursing at a larger hospital before the call of home yearned.
Stokes earned her nurse practitioner from Eastern Kentucky University and worked for Gateway-Tennova in Clarksville, Trigg County Hospital and Trigg County Primary Care before opting in this plan.
Wadlington, meanwhile, also had a love of agriculture and was headed down that path when she turned to nursing and went to Hopkinsville Community College and Murray State University — working multiple stints at Baptist Madisonville, Gateway-Tennova and Trigg County Hospital throughout her career.
Three years ago, she wanted to earn nurse practitioner, and completed it at Maryville University in St. Louis.
Open Monday through Friday from 8-5 and closed one hour for lunch, families can already reach the business by phone at (270) 512-2512, where they are scheduling 20-minute and 40-minute appointments in order to better meet compounding patient needs.
Lisa Nelson and Victoria Bryant will be medical assistants.
