Cornerstone VNA welcomes three new board members
ROCHESTER – Cornerstone VNA, your native nonprofit dwelling well being and hospice care group, welcomes and introduces the most recent members of their Board of Administrators, Marilyn Employees, RN, David Richard, and Laura Davie.
In line with Julie Reynolds, RN, MS, President/CEO, “We’re thrilled to have Marilyn, David and Laura be part of our dynamic and steadfast Board of Administrators. Along with sharing a ardour for our mission, all of them convey in depth expertise in well being care and management abilities.” Julie provides, “Marilyn, David and Laura are becoming a member of our board throughout an thrilling time as we kick off our 110th yr anniversary, and work collectively to honor our previous, have fun the current, and sit up for the brilliant way forward for our VNA.”
A graduate of Boston Faculty, Marilyn Employees, BSN, RN, CCM has been an RN for over 35 years and is presently the Director of Care Coordination at FedPoint positioned in Portsmouth, N.H. For over eight years, she has been overseeing Care Administration and Fraud Waste and Abuse for the Federal Lengthy Time period Care Insurance coverage Program. She has in depth senior management and scientific operations administration expertise in numerous settings, in addition to important danger and audit expertise. A strategic, analytical, and visionary chief, Marilyn is a previous member of the Massachusetts House Care Alliance and collaborated to ascertain the primary Salem State Universality (beforehand SSC) Nursing shadow program.
David Richard is presently the gross sales supervisor for liquid fuels and tools in addition to head of neighborhood outreach for D.F. Richard Vitality in Dover, NH. Previous to re-joining his household’s enterprise in 2015, he was an occupational therapist for over 20 years in numerous settings, together with expert nursing services (SNF), and visiting nurse companies. He has additionally held division administration positions in SNF settings, together with lead therapist positions in numerous VNA settings.
David shares, “I’m honored to be part of such a passionate group of execs that present a lot wanted dwelling well being providers to the larger Rochester space and past. Moreover, I’ve skilled Cornerstones VNA’s providers firsthand as they’ve offered wonderful care to my mom in her closing weeks. All I can say is that I used to be a lot impressed with the extent of compassion and stage of communication to myself and my siblings. It was comforting to all of us. I’d not hesitate to advocate Cornerstone VNA to anybody in want of at dwelling care.”
Rochester resident, Laura Davie, is the Director of the Lengthy Time period Care and Growing old focus space on the Institute for Well being Coverage and Follow (IHPP). She can be the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Middle on Growing old and Neighborhood Residing (CACL), a collaboration between IHPP and the Institute on Incapacity on the College of New Hampshire in Durham, N.H. Laura joined IHPP in 2005 and supplies management, mission administration, facilitation, and analysis throughout a number of tasks targeted on person-centered choices for older adults to assist them to stay and age in communities of their alternative. Presently, Laura is a Cornerstone VNA Hospice Volunteer, an energetic member of the Tri-State Studying Collaborative on Growing old’s Advisory Board, and is a collaborative accomplice within the NH Senior Management Sequence. Laura was a New Hampshire Public Well being Affiliation Board Member (2009-2016) and served as Vice President (2011-2015).
Laura shares, “As a hospice volunteer these previous two years, I’ve realized concerning the breadth and depth of providers Cornerstone VNA supplies and the excessive caliber of individuals they make use of. Becoming a member of the board is a chance to serve Cornerstone VNA, but additionally our neighborhood. Sustaining and increasing home-based providers is important to the well being and well-being of people in want of care and their caregivers.”
Cornerstone VNA presently serves Rockingham, Strafford, Belknap and Carroll Counties in New Hampshire and York County in Maine. The staff at Cornerstone VNA supplies award-winning care and assist by way of 5 distinct applications: House Care, Hospice Care, Palliative Care, Life Care-Personal Responsibility and Neighborhood Care. For 110 years, Cornerstone VNA has been dedicated to bringing providers to folks of all ages in order that households can keep collectively at dwelling, even when going through the challenges of growing old, surgical restoration, power or life-threatening sicknesses or end-of-life care. To study extra about Cornerstone VNA, go to www.cornerstonevna.org or name 800-691-1133.
