OUR BELIEF
Healing happens in partnership.
Health is more than what's measured.
Holding space for the whole story matters.
We are championing a different way: one rooted in clarity, coherence, and compassion. We are committed to helping practitioners, patients, and organizations deepen a capacity for WholeHealth care.
OUR STORY
WholeHealth NP was founded by two nurse practitioners with extensive experience in integrative nursing and functional medicine. The company exists because we kept watching the same gap appear from two different angles.
Patients arrive having waited weeks, get fifteen minutes for a visit, and leave with a narrow lab panel and a plan that often ignores how factors like diet, sleep, stress, and environment shapes their health. Their stories get fragmented across specialties and handed back to them in pieces they're expected to reassemble alone.
Clinicians are trying to do better than the system allows — stitching together functional, integrative, and conventional frameworks that were never designed to work together, and paying the cognitive cost every time a patient walks in.
We are nurse-led, evidence-informed, and built around the work of health creation — supporting people, practitioners, and organizations to prevent illness, promote healing, and reclaim agency over health.
OUR TEAM
Meet the Nurse Practitioners
behind WholeHealth NP
Laura Sandquist
DNP, APRN, A-GNP-C, FMCP-M
Co-Founder & Co-Owner
Laura Sandquist, DNP, APRN, A‑GNP‑C, FMCP-M is a board-certified, doctorally trained nurse practitioner with an additional doctorate in Integrative Health and Healing and certification through the Institute for Functional Medicine.
She brings nearly two decades of experience spanning direct patient care, program development, clinical leadership, and organizational transformation.
She most recently served as the Clinical Lead for the Integrative & Functional Medicine specialty service line at the Allina Health Penny George Institute for Health and Healing in Minneapolis, MN. In this role, she provided strategic, operational, and clinical leadership for a rapidly expanding service line-hiring and training more than 20 nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and physicians over six years and establishing one of the largest integrative and functional medicine programs within a conventional health system in the country. She developed clinical workflows and tools, established practice guidelines, and advanced integrative health services across the organization while maintaining an active clinical practice focused on complex, chronic health concerns.
Laura is a long‑time educator and contributor to the field of integrative advanced practice nursing. She co‑developed and taught Introduction to Integrative Mental Health at the University of Minnesota’s Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality and Healing for nine years and has co‑authored chapters in three editions of the Integrative Nursing textbook in the Weil Integrative Medicine series.
She created and published the WholeHealth Model in 2014, a framework that has informed program development and clinical innovation across multiple organizations. She received the University of Minnesota School of Nursing Rising Star Award in 2016 and has consistently ranked in the top 10% nationally for provider communication in patient experience measures. She has also presented on whole health topics nationally and internationally since 2014.
Laura earned her Doctor of Nursing Practice degrees in 2012 from the University of Minnesota with dual specialties in Integrative Health and Healing and as an Adult/Geriatric Nurse Practitioner. She is a certified practitioner through the Institute for Functional Medicine. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and a minor in Psychology from Winona State University.
Kate Otremba
DNP, APRN, A-GNP-C, FMCP-M
Co-Founder & Co-Owner
Kate Otremba, DNP, MN, APRN, A-GNP-C, FMCP-M is a board-certified, doctorally trained nurse practitioner with advanced training in integrative health and certification through the Institute for Functional Medicine.
With more than 15 years of experience across diverse roles in health care, she brings a unique blend of clinical expertise, systems-level thinking, and program innovation to her work.
Kate currently serves as the Clinical Lead for the Penny George Institute for Health and Healing at Allina Health, where she supports strategic direction, clinical leadership, and the advancement of integrative health services across the organization. Her role spans direct patient care, program development, and operational innovation.
She led the creation and implementation of group medical visits at Allina Health, establishing a scalable model that expands access to preventative and integrative care. Her work is grounded in the cutting-edge WholeHealth Model, which she and Laura have co-published on and successfully implemented to create one of the largest insurance-based integrative and functional medicine programs in the country. Their work is featured as a chapter contribution in Integrative Nursing, 3rd edition (Oxford University Press) — a foundational text in the field of integrative nursing.
Kate is also an experienced lecturer and educator, speaking nationally and regionally on whole-person care, functional medicine integration, and the development of sustainable integrative health programs within conventional health systems. She has taught clinicians, health system leaders, and graduate-level students through CME courses, conference presentations, and in academic settings. Over six consecutive years, Kate has consistently ranked in the top 10% nationally for patient satisfaction.
She earned her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from the University of Minnesota as an Adult/Geriatric Nurse Practitioner along with a Graduate Certificate in Integrative Health and Healing from the Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality and Healing at the University of Minnesota. She is a certified practitioner through the Institute for Functional Medicine. She holds a Master of Nursing from the University of Minnesota and a Bachelor's in English with a Minor in Business Management from St. Catherine's University.