Care Dimensions, the largest hospice and palliative care organization in Massachusetts, announces the promotion of Kerry Carr, RN, to clinical manager, leading a multidisciplinary team of nurses, hospice aides, social workers, and chaplains caring for hospice patients in assisted-living facilities on the North Shore.
Before joining Care Dimensions in 2020 as an RN case manager, she spent 11 years working at senior living residences supporting patients and their families, most recently as a resident care director for five years.
“I look forward to leading and supporting my team as they provide care to patients and their families with serious illness in assisted-living facilities, which is especially important during the COVID-19 pandemic,” Carr says. “We’re focused on making our patients’ experiences easier by surrounding families with medical expertise and support.”
Carr, a Lynn resident, has a bachelor’s degree from Salem State University and a nursing degree from North Shore Community College.
Care Dimensions is the largest hospice and palliative care provider to adults and children in Massachusetts. As a nonprofit, community-based leader in advanced illness care, Care Dimensions provides comprehensive hospice, palliative care, grief support in more than 100 communities in Massachusetts. Founded in 1978 as Hospice of the North Shore, Care Dimensions cares for patients wherever they live – in their homes, in skilled nursing facilities and assisted living communities, in hospitals, or at our two inpatient hospice facilities, the Care Dimensions Hospice House in Lincoln and the Kaplan Family Hospice House in Danvers. Additionally, Care Dimensions HomeMD program provides in-home primary care to patients over age 65 in select communities on the North Shore and Greater Boston who have difficulty leaving home. The Care Dimensions Learning Institute educates more than 7,000 health care professionals and community members each year on advanced illness and end-of-life topics. Please visit www.CareDimensions.org to learn more about Care Dimensions.