All Care News & Updates

All Care's Home Health Aide, Munirat "AB" Lamia, has been recognized as being an "unsung hero" in honor of "Home Care Aide Recognition Day" on June 24th. Check out the WHDH-TV 7News Boston video clip:

Jun 24, 2020 Submitted by: Julie Watt Faqir, Home Care Aide Council More than 60,000 homecare aides are working in homes across the Commonwealth to meet the needs of vulnerable older adults during the Coronavirus pandemic. On June 24, the Home Care Community is coming...

Stacey Blakeslee of Salem, NH  named Business Development Representative for All Care VNA & Hospice    Stacey Blakeslee recently joined All Care VNA & Hospice as a business development representative. Blakeslee, from Salem, N.H., is a graduate of Salem...

Marblehead, MA- The pandemic has brought us a “new normal,” especially when it comes to healthcare.  Visiting loved ones in the hospital or health care facilities is not an option right now, and this somber reality has created a variety of new challenges. The All Care...

Published in Lynn’s The Daily Item Written by: David McLellan LYNN — One patient was at home receiving geriatric care, while her husband was dying in the hospital from COVID-19. That’s when one of the nurses from All Care VNA & Hospice came to the home and...

Cindi Navarro, of Salem is named Business Development Representative for All Care VNA and Hospice, Inc. Cindi Navarro has joined All Care VNA & Hospice as a business development representative. The LPN from Salem has more than 40 years of experience in the health...

Makenzie Shanahan, RN & All Care’s Director of Hospice with Alzheimers Kit  Always striving to provide the best care and quality of life for its patients, All Care Hospice recently restructured its Dementia and Sensory Program. With almost half of All Care’s...

By: Ellen Frankel, LCSW "Things break all the time. Glass, and dishes, and fingernails. Cars and contracts and potato chips. You can break a record, a horse, a dollar. You can break the ice. There are coffee breaks and lunch breaks and prison breaks. Day breaks, waves...

We are pleased to announce that All Care VNA has been awarded a 5-star rating in Quality of Patient Care from Medicare’s Home Health Compare. We are currently 1 of only 5 agencies in Massachusetts that has this rating. We are very proud of our hard-working staff for...

Ten years ago, a motorcycle accident forever changed the lives of a California family, resulting in a son’s debilitating brain injury, and for a mother, the start of a complicated caregiver’s journey. Jinnie, in the extended wake of her son’s injuries, made the...

Lynn, MA – May 23, 2019 -- All Care VNA & Hospice has been issued a three-year accreditation for its Adult Foster Care (AFC) Program by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF International). Accreditation by definition is an ongoing...

All Care VNA, Hospice and Private Pay Services is pleased to announce that the Department of Public Health (DPH) has informed All Care that its Adult Day Health Center in Chelmsford, MA has successfully passed its recent DPH survey without any deficiencies. The DPH arrived unannounced to the Adult Day Health Center on Wednesday, December 5, 2018 to review the program and tour the Center…

Jennifer Dyer, LPN, of Groton, has recently joined All Care VNA & Hospice as a Care Transition Specialist. A graduate of Greater Lowell Regional Vocational Tech, and a current nursing student of Excelsior College and Northern Essex Community College, Jennifer has over 10 years of experience in the field of nursing healthcare and has been committed to providing patients with outstanding care and the support to help them improve their quality of life.

Prior to joining All Care, Jennifer worked as a Liaison Nurse at VNA Care in Needham, MA and as a Clinical Liaison at Care One in Concord, MA.

Nancy J. Tremblay, LPN, of Salem, has recently joined All Care VNA & Hospice as a Care Transition Specialist. A graduate of Greater Lowell Regional Vocational Tech, Nancy has 24 years of experience in the health care industry working for such organizations as Care One in Boston, Curahealth Boston North Shore and Beacon Hospice in Beverly in many different capacities. She has a proven ability to build positive relationships with case managers, physicians and medical professionals.

Kerry A. Slattery, LSW, of Dracut, has recently joined All Care VNA & Hospice as a Care Transition Specialist. A graduate of UMass Lowell, Kerry is a seasoned elder care Social Worker, with the bulk of her experience being in the health care industry and assisted living setting. Fulfilling her passion for helping seniors and their families, Kerry has been instrumental in guiding seniors through the aging process and being a resource for them for over 20 years.

Dr. Hans C. Jeppesen has recently joined All Care Hospice as Associate Medical Director. Dr. Jeppesen leads Charter Health PC, Lynn, MA, a medical practice he founded that provides internal medicine services in the North Shore area of Boston. In his role with All Care, Dr. Jeppesen will provide consultative services for pain management and quality of life issues for patients with advanced illness.

Michele Meltzer, LICSW, of Swampscott has recently been named Adult Foster Care Program Manager for All Care’s Resource Division.  Meltzer, who has Master’s Degree in Social Work from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, joined All Care in November 2016 as a VNA Medical Social Worker before being promoted to Adult Foster Care Manager in April of 2018. With over 15 years’ experience in social work, Michele brings a wealth of experience to her new role at All Care.

All Care VNA & Hospice announced that its 26th Annual Charity Golf Open held on June 25th at Gannon Golf Course, Lynn, MA was a tremendous success, thanks to the involvement of many members of the community. Over $50,000 was raised from the event, which will benefit All Care Hospice patients by providing compassionate medical, emotional and spiritual care, regardless of one’s ability to pay. Personalized bereavement support is provided to families, in addition to support groups available to the community at the All Care Hospice Center for Grief & Loss, located at the agency’s main headquarters at 210 Market Street in Lynn.

Laurie McFarland, RN of Winthrop has recently been named Palliative Care Program Manager for All Care’s Hospice Division. McFarland joined All Care in 2016 as a Hospice RN Case Manager before being promoted to Palliative Care Program Manager in April of 2018. She served as a hospice and palliative care nurse at Hallmark Health in Malden for five years, and as staff nurse focusing on end of life care at Epoch of Melrose for two years.