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The Team
Who We Are
Haley Stapleton
Nurse Practitioner & Owner
Haley is the owner of The Little Mountain Clinic. She graduated with her Bachelors in Nursing from South University in Tampa Florida. She then went and got her master's degree from Georgetown University. She has a wide range of experience from primary care to acute care medicine. Rural medicine is where her heart is.
She has a husband is who in the Airforce and three lovely children. In her free time she loves to spend time with her family, play on her hobby farm, ride her horse, and read books.
Dr Michael Hollifield
Medical Director
Leading The Little Mountain Clinic's medical providers, Dr. Michael Hollifield has an extensive medical background in emergency medical management and primary care.
Dr. Hollifield is a graduate of University of North Georgia, and the University of Florida. He got his Medical Degree from Medical College of Georgia and was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha National Honor Medical Society at MCG in 1987. He has been a Dutch Merchant Marine Officer for 8 years, and has practiced emergency medicine for over 35 years with the last 29 years being at Northeast Georgia Medical Center.
As Medical Director, Dr Hollifield leads our providers by providing review and feedback as well as consultant physician services when needed on complex cases. Dr. Hollifield works on a daily basis through his oversight and teamwork assuring all providers are delivering the highest standards of medical care to our patients.
Dr. Hollifield loves horses, trail raiding and is an active scuba diver.
Teresa Quick
Managing Director & Co-Owner
Teresa Quick is Little Mountain's Managing Director and co-owner. She also helps run and manage a non-profit organization that assists animals in need with medical expenses, and to find them wonderful permanent homes.
In her spare time, she loves to take care of her farm and spending time with her family.
Diego Perez
Nurse Practitioner
Diego Began his career in medicine as an EKG tech back in 2007. He then became a nurse in the cardiac catheterization unit in 2015 and has worked as a local nurse in the Northeast Georgia system and a travel nurse. He graduated with his Master's of Science in Nursing in 2019 from Brenau University in Gainesville, Ga. Diego specializes in Urgent Care and Family Care.
Diego is bilingual and offers tele-health appointments in both English and Spanish to our patient living or visiting Georgia.
Sara Cavazos
Nurse Practioner
Sara began her career in medicine as an EMT and then a paramedic in 2000. In 2005, she became an ER and trauma nurse, then continued her studies at Kennesaw State University where she graduated with honors in 2009 as a nurse practitioner. She has vast experience in both primary and emergency. Sara is looking forward to treating patients via telehealth and in home visits for primary and urgent care. She is excited to start this new chapter of her medical career with the Little Mountain Clinic!
During Sara's time off she enjoys spending time with her family, traveling, cooking, organizing and exercising.
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