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Lea Doiron has been at Cortland Place for a year, bringing over 32 years experience in nurse management in the long term health care field. “I’ve spent my entire career doing what I love — working to improve the medical care we give to our residents, and helping our nurses improve their skills and feel comfortable and empowered in the work that they do. This is my life’s calling and I wouldn’t do any other type of nursing, said Doiron.”
In a period of rapid change in the healthcare system, keeping the focus on the patient or resident and his or her medical needs is a major priority. With more record keeping and regulation requirements adding to her
nursing workload, the personal attention her nurses provide is key. Attracting and retaining the highest quality of nurses in a nationwide nursing shortage is also an issue Doiron takes seriously. “Working to make Cortland Place somewhere that nurses want to be will attract others to us and to the profession, so quality of work environment
is key to us here. We know that if our staff is happy and empowered to make suggestions, the care they provide will be of higher quality, and they will stay with us here at Cortland,” Doiron said.
Recently, Doiron was a guest on WPRO-AM radio, being interviewed by Patricia Raskin for the “Positive Living” program. She discussed the clinical programs at Cortland Place, and how being able to offer a continuum of care from independent living to nursing care, if needed, all
under one roof, is such an asset to the residents and families. We stay with our residents, help them if they have to go to rehab to recover from an illness, and transition them back to their resident program.
Doiron is a graduate of the Community College of RI, and she and her family live in Cumberland, RI.
