Imagine Healthcare adds psychiatric nurse practitioner in Chicago

Imagine Healthcare said Madison Maskalunas has joined its Chicago interventional psychiatry team and began seeing clients Aug. 5 at the clinic’s West Grand Avenue location. The hire expands access to psychiatric medication management and same-day interventional care, including ketamine and Spravato treatments.

Why it matters: - The addition expands appointment availability at a Chicago practice that combines medication management with interventional treatments under one roof. - Maskalunas will help connect psychiatric care with ketamine infusions and Spravato administration, a model the clinic says supports continuity between evaluation, prescribing and treatment. - The hire adds capacity for clients across the lifespan, from children through older adults.

What happened: - Imagine Healthcare announced that Madison Maskalunas, MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC, has joined the clinic as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner. - Maskalunas began seeing clients on Aug. 5, 2026, at Imagine Healthcare’s 708 W Grand Ave. location in Chicago. - She will provide comprehensive psychiatric evaluations and psychiatric medication management. - She will also spend one day each week administering ketamine infusions and Spravato, or esketamine, treatments.

The details: - Maskalunas is board certified as a Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner through the American Nurses Credentialing Center. - Her education includes a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from The Ohio State University, a Master of Science in Nursing from DePaul University and post-master’s PMHNP training at Herzing University. - Her career began at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, where she cared for patients with traumatic brain injury and complex neurological and behavioral conditions in inpatient rehabilitation. - She later moved into outpatient psychiatric practice. - Her graduate clinical training included work with Spravato and transcranial magnetic stimulation. - She also holds additional certifications in medications for substance and opioid use disorders and in trauma-informed service delivery. - As an undergraduate, she founded a campus mental health organization focused on peer support and reducing stigma around seeking care. - Imagine Healthcare offers ketamine therapy, Spravato, ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, psychiatric medication management, PRISM for PTSD, GeneSight pharmacogenomic testing and wellness services. - The practice also includes PRISM neurofeedback for PTSD and MDD, vibroacoustic therapy through InHarmony and energy work. - New and existing clients can request a PMHNP appointment by emailing findhelp@imaginehealthcare.org or calling 312.300.2190. - Imagine Healthcare describes itself as Chicago’s first woman-owned and woman-run ketamine clinic and the only one led by a palliative medicine-trained physician. - The clinic says its care team includes psychiatrists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, licensed therapists, and palliative medicine and emergency medicine physicians overseeing procedures. - The clinic is located at 708 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60654. - The clinic’s social media pages are available on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and TikTok.

Between the lines: - Rachel Norris, MD, MA, said Maskalunas brings unusually broad patient experience for this stage of her career, including care for more than 300 patients from children to people in their nineties. - Norris also pointed to Maskalunas’ neurorehabilitation background as a fit for a practice that treats psychiatric symptoms alongside neurological injury and other complex conditions. - Maskalunas’ role reflects a care model that keeps medication management and interventional treatment within the same clinical relationship. - That approach may appeal to patients seeking more coordinated care for treatment-resistant depression, anxiety, OCD, PTSD and chronic pain.

What's next: - Maskalunas will continue seeing clients at the Chicago clinic and add weekly interventional treatment coverage. - Imagine Healthcare is likely to use the added staffing to widen access for new and existing clients seeking PMHNP appointments. - The clinic’s broader mix of psychiatry, neurofeedback, ketamine-based care and pharmacogenomic testing positions it for continued demand in integrative mental health services.

The bottom line: - Imagine Healthcare is leaning further into a coordinated psychiatry-plus-interventional model, and Maskalunas’ arrival gives the clinic more capacity to deliver both medication management and ketamine-based treatment from the same team.