Jennifer Gullison Receives Home Treatment Assistance Award In Portsmouth

Oct 5, 2020

Cornerstone VNA congratulates their personal Jennifer Gullison RN, MSN, VP of Operations, on staying awarded the 2020 Home Care Support Award from the Home Care, Hospice and Palliative Care Alliance of New Hampshire at their annual meeting, which was held just about on Sept. 25, 2020.

The Property Treatment Services Award is offered annually to an person who has manufactured a significant contribution to house health or hospice in the condition as a result of their function in instruction, analysis, advocacy, or leadership. In accordance to Julie Reynolds RN, MS, president/Chief Executive Officer at Cornerstone VNA, “In her 19 a long time at Cornerstone VNA, Jennifer has attained the regard of staff, local community health associates and patients. She is a team player who shares her abilities willingly in her company and amid Alliance users.” Reynolds adds, “Jennifer has labored in our company, her local community and with the Alliance to boost health and fitness and effectively-currently being.”

There are quite a few means in which Gullison has shared her know-how. For instance, when Cornerstone VNA established a one of a kind application to delegate standard wound treatment responsibilities to Licensed Nursing Assistants, Gullison shared her agency’s coaching program via a webinar series for Alliance users. In 2019, the Alliance created an initiative with the Excellent Improvement Organizations to roll out a sepsis screening software in dwelling settings and Gullison led the way. Sepsis is a life threatening affliction that occurs when the body’s reaction to an an infection injures its possess tissues and organs. Cornerstone VNA was 1 of the very first agencies to practice staff on sepsis care with the goal of stopping sepsis readmissions and fatalities. She also worked with Frisbie Memorial Healthcare facility, which included the software into their admission course of action, and she is at this time schooling workers at regional fireplace departments.

In addition, she expanded telehealth at Cornerstone VNA and has worked with their telehealth seller to enhance the instructional elements of the products, earning her countrywide recognition. She has testified on telehealth at Condition Residence hearings, sharing illustrations of how telehealth has directly improved care for people. As certified continual treatment trainer, Gullison trains all her medical employees in serious care management, which includes the makes use of of ailment-unique protocols to provide the finest treatment feasible to patients. In accordance to Reynolds, “She most genuinely embodies what this distinctive award represents.”

About Cornerstone VNA:

Cornerstone VNA is a nonprofit dwelling well being and hospice treatment supplier, at the moment serving Rockingham, Strafford, Belknap and Carroll Counties in New Hampshire and York County in Maine. The staff at Cornerstone VNA offers award-successful care and assistance by way of five unique programs: Property Treatment, Hospice Care, Palliative Care, Existence Care-Private Duty and Group Treatment. For 107 several years, Cornerstone VNA has been committed to bringing solutions to persons of all ages so that people can keep with each other at residence, even when going through the challenges of growing older, surgical recovery, persistent or lifetime-threatening ailments or finish-of-lifestyle treatment. To understand additional about Cornerstone VNA, visit www.cornerstonevna.org or call 800-691-1133.