Judy Jones

Judy Jones, a 2025 Vision Fellow, is earning her Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Post Master’s Certificate from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Elaine Marieb College of Nursing. Attaining this specialty certification will allow Judy to manage more advanced and complex mental health conditions for those in need in the Martha’s Vineyard community. Judy provides primary care, with a special interest in patients with behavioral and/or substance use challenges. She is the clinical lead for Island Health Care’s primary care providers, where she works closely with the Chief Clinical Officer, Chief Quality Officer, and behavioral health team. She also works remotely for an opioid treatment program, admitting patients to outpatient care for substance use disorders. In over 24 years of practice, Judy had been a correctional head nurse, director of an HIV program, director of an academic nurse practitioner program, and Chief Medical Officer of a community mental health center.