Amy Dobson, Vice President of Clinical Services for Blue Hill Memorial Hospital (BHMH), has been selected as a 2006 Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellow. Dobson is one of twenty nurses in executive leadership roles nationwide awarded the prestigious fellowship this year.
Tim Garrity, President and CEO of BHMH, said “It is a real honor for the Hospital that our Chief Nursing Officer is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Fellow. We are very proud of Amy. She is tremendously dedicated and uses her experience, knowledge and skill to make this a better health system for our patients and staff.”
Through mentorship, seminars and an independent learning plan, the three-year program provides an opportunity to develop critical leadership skills and to collaborate with nursing and health care leaders throughout the country.
Dobson related, “I am thrilled to be selected for this grant, I hope it will allow me to grow in my position and bring to the organization a pilot project to improve the care we provide to our patients.”
As part of the Fellowship, Dobson will conduct a leadership project with support from BHMH and funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The program will dovetail with a $219,000 Physicians’ Foundation for Health Systems Excellence grant awarded to BHMH for a project entitled “Improving Care for Patients with Chronic Conditions in Rural Maine”.
Dobson plans to develop an outpatient-based nursing role to monitor and support patients with chronic conditions, including high cholesterol, hypertension, congestive heart failure, diabetes, obesity, COPD, and major depression.
Blue Hill Memorial Hospital is dedicated to providing primary and selected specialty healthcare of outstanding quality, caring for patients with respect and compassion, and improving the health of the communities it serves.
For more information, please call Lynn Boulger, Interim Director of Development and Community Relations at 374-3411. |
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