Mentor woman honored for work with Hospice

and engages individuals in care decisions earlier in Judy Bartel, chief clinitheir disease process and cal officer, Hospice of the a renal disease model that Western Reserve, has been integrates palliative care named Certified Hospice with dialysis services. and PalliOne of her crowning ative Care achievements was develA d m i n i s - oping Western Reserve trat or of Navigator, a community the Year by palliative care program the Hospice that is still one of the few and Palliof its type in the country. ative Care WRN helps patients with Credentialadvanced illness maintain ing Center, independence and prevent the organihospitalizations by manzation that aging symptoms at home. provides specialty certiThe program earned a nafication to 15,500 healthtional Circle of Life award care professionals nationfrom the American Hospiwide, according to a news tal Association in 2019. release. Bartel and her This year, the COVID-19 family live in Mentor. pandemic presented previ

Bartel is recognized as ously unimaginable chala pioneer and national lenges. leader in both serious illBartel’s strategic leaderness and hospice care. She ship helped HWR’s clinical entered palliative nursing teams navigate and adapt when it was a comparato the pandemic’s changtively new specialty. Uring complexities. suline College offered the She collaborated with first master’s in palliative other clinical leaders who nursing in the country and dealt with the pandemic Bartel was the program’s before it arrived in Ohio. first graduate. She continues to confer

“There are precious few and share best practices individuals who personwith colleagues across the ify excellence in clinicalS.U. practice more than Judy,” “At her core, Judy is a said Bill Finn, president teacher and mentor,” Finn and CEO. “She has dedisaid. “Empowering and elcated 34 years to hospice evating our staff members and palliative care. The are fundamental to her standards of care she has modus operandi.” Through created have been emuBartel’s educational advolated by hospice programs cacy, HWR has the most across the country.” clinical staff members cer

Bartel innovated a detified within their specialmentia care program that ties of any hospice organiadapts communications zation in Northern Ohio.

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