About Jacob, FNP-C
Jacob’s healthcare career began in emergency medical services and has included work as a paramedic, flight clinician, nurse, and advanced practice provider in emergency and rural healthcare.
Those experiences created a strong foundation in patient care and shaped how he approaches complex medical concerns, communication, and clinical decision-making. Over time, they also strengthened his interest in what happens before someone becomes seriously ill: prevention, understanding risk, improving how the body functions, and helping people maintain their health and independence over time.
Jacob and his family live in Vernon County and have called the Driftless Area home for more than two decades. Outside of healthcare, he enjoys paddling, hiking, camping, spending time with family, and exploring the places that make the Driftless Area home.
For Jacob, Driftless Health brings together a strong foundation in patient care with a more personal approach to medicine: practical, transparent, thoughtful care built together.
Primary Care With a Wider Lens
Jacob combines primary care and functional medicine with a holistic approach. That means addressing the concern in front of you while also considering factors such as nutrition, sleep, movement, stress, metabolic health, digestive health, medications, lifestyle, and other influences on how you feel and function.
The goal isn’t more testing or more treatment. It is to ask better questions, understand how the pieces fit together, and identify practical opportunities to improve function, reduce risk, and support longevity.
Longevity isn’t simply about living longer. It is about maintaining the health, strength, independence, and ability to keep doing the things that matter to you.
Jacob believes healthcare works best as a partnership. Patients should understand what is happening, know their options and costs, ask questions, and have a meaningful voice in deciding what comes next. He also works collaboratively with physicians and other healthcare professionals when additional expertise or coordination is helpful.
Clinical Focus, Education & Credentials
- Primary care and prevention
- Holistic and functional medicine
- Metabolic health
- Digestive and hormone health
- Nutrition and lifestyle medicine
- Health optimization and longevity
Personal, Transparent,
and Built Together
Driftless Health was created to offer personal, practical, and transparent healthcare.
Some patients come for ongoing primary medical care. Others already have a provider they trust and come to us for a focused concern, prevention, laboratory evaluation, or a deeper functional medicine perspective.
We also believe you should understand what your care costs. Visit prices are published, laboratory pricing is available, and when additional testing is recommended, cost should be part of the conversation—not a surprise months later.
Whether you visit us in Viroqua or connect by telehealth, the goal is the same: listen first, understand the whole picture, explain the options, and build the plan together.
Healthcare should begin with a conversation
Whether you are looking for primary care, holistic and functional medicine, preventive support, or help with a focused concern, Driftless Health is ready to understand what matters to you.