ROCKPORT, Maine – MaineHealth Pen Bay Hospital is pleased to welcome Richard Grunke, DNP, CRNA, to its anesthesia team.
Richard and his family recently relocated back to the Northeast after spending the past three years in Wisconsin, where he completed his nurse anesthesia training. In May 2026, he earned his Doctor of Nursing Practice in Nurse Anesthesia from the University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh.
Prior to becoming a CRNA, Richard worked as an intensive care nurse at Montefiore White Plains Hospital and in the Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York City.
Learn more about Richard Grunke, DNP, CRNA.
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