Central Vermont Home Health and Hospice has appointed Michelle Walker, RN, MS as the Agency’s Hospice and Palliative Care Manager.
Walker grew up in Montpelier and has been a Registered Nurse for 37 years. During that time she has gained a wide variety of experience through her employment as an Intensive Care Unit nurse, a school nurse, professor of nursing at Norwich University, and as a nursing supervisor at both CVMC and CVHHH.
As the Hospice and Palliative Care Manager, she is responsible for managing an interdisciplinary team of health care professionals providing Hospice and Palliative Care to Central Vermonters. Walker has strong ties to the Central Vermont community and is proud to be a part of a team providing a tremendous service to those who need pain management through the Palliative care program or end of life care through the Hospice program. According to Walker, “The Hospice and Palliative Care services we are able to provide to Central Vermonters, are immensely important. The care is tailored to each individual’s needs to provide the highest quality of both palliative and end of life care. I am proud to be part of such a fantastic team of caregivers.”
For 15 of the last 20 years, Walker has been with CVHHH, a not-for-profit Visiting Nurse Association with a proud 100 year history of caring for Central Vermonters in their homes. Prior to her current position, Walker was CVHHH’s Home Care Utilization Review Manager. In that role she was involved in the implementation and management of the agency’s state of the art patient telemonitoring program.
CVHHH provides a wide variety of skilled care and long term care programs which enable people of all ages and economic status to manage their diseases, rehabilitate quickly, remain independent using supportive services, or die with comfort and dignity in the setting of their choice – most often their own home.