A new Nurse Practitioner role with a special focus on Geriatrics is helping the most frail and complex patients at St. Joseph’s Health Centre return home safely with the supports they need.
This new dedicated resource within the Health Centre’s Medicine and Seniors Care Program works closely with the interprofessional frontline team’s and physicians to pull together the right internal and external community supports as soon as a senior patient is admitted to one of the medicine beds.
Stella Cruz is proud to take on this new role as Nurse Practitioner in an area of medicine she is very passionate about. Cruz will be working to support a collaborative and consultative model of care that starts on “day #1”, providing early assessment and intervention that follows geriatric medicine patients throughout their care journey at St. Joe’s.
“I can assess patients admitted to the unit with a focus on geriatric medicine, to try and identify all of the issues that have brought these patients into the hospital,” Cruz explains.
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