COMMUNITY VNA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SET TO RETIRE
KATHLEEN M. TRIER
Attleboro, MA – Community VNA, based in Attleboro, MA, today announced that the company’s Chief Executive Officer, Kathleen M. Trier, will retire in July after 28 years of service.
“Under her leadership, the VNA and its affiliates have accomplished great things,” said Suzanne Vargas, President of the Board of Directors. “For more than 100 years, Community VNA has provided home care to thousands of residents of Greater Attleboro and its surrounding communities. As the leader of the only community-based, non-profit home care agency in the area, Kathy has been able to not only grow our home care and hospice, but to expand services to include three adult day health centers in Norwood, Mansfield, and Taunton, a tele-monitoring program, and a palliative care program.
Kathy is leaving us with an operationally sound, financially strong organization, well-positioned to meet the health care challenges of the coming years.”
Trier joined Community VNA as its CEO in 1990. Under her leadership, Community VNA has received numerous accolades, most recently recognized as being in the Top 5% of agencies nationwide by HomeCare Elite and as a Premier Performer (top 5%) in Hospice Caregiver Satisfaction by Strategic Healthcare Programs (SHP).
“Leading Community VNA has been an immensely satisfying experience for me,” Trier said. “Home-based care has evolved over the past 30 years in ways that no one could foresee. I have been honored to take on these challenges with an extremely dedicated group of colleagues who care deeply about our agency, our patients, and our communities.
My work at Community VNA and with our community partners has provided me with the most interesting and rewarding experiences of my career.”
Trier has been a leader in the greater Attleboro community and the local and regional home-based care movement, serving as the past Chair of the Boards of Directors of the Attleboro Chamber of Commerce, the Visiting Nurse Associations of New England (VNANE), Bristol Elder Services, and the Home Care Alliance of Massachusetts.
She is also an active board member of the Rotary Club of Attleboro and the Sturdy Memorial Hospital Foundation. She also serves on the finance committee of the Visiting Nurse Associations of America (VNAA). Community VNA’s board has formed a search committee and is engaging the services of a professional search firm to conduct a nationwide search for Trier’s replacement.
About Community VNA Community VNA has been dedicated to enhancing health, wellness and quality of life for more than 100 years, providing a range of services, including: Home Health Care, Hospice Care, Palliative Care, Private Care, Adult Day Health Care, Alzheimer’s Assistance Program, as well as Lifeline services and annual Elder Dental Clinics. Community VNA has been recognized as a 2017 HomeCare Elite Top 500 (ranked among the top 5% of home health care agencies nationwide).
This recognition is based on publicly available performance measures in quality outcomes, best practice implementing patient experience, quality improvement and consistency, and financial performance.
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