A New Colleague with Hartford HealthCare Center for Healthy Aging

Hartford HealthCare Center for Healthy Aging welcomes Kelly Quinn, RN, as transitional care nurse, where she provides in home assessments and education focused on physical, psychosocial, and environmental safety needs.

Quinn has more than 10 years’ experience in the medical field, and earned her associate’s degree in 2013 followed by her bachelor’s in nursing science at Western Connecticut State University, Danbury in 2019.

Most recently, she worked as a quality safety clinician with Hartford HealthCare at Home, where she was responsible for education and documentation reviews for all nursing and therapy staff, to ensure patients received the best, quality care to remain safely in their homes.

In her new role, Quinn will work to improve the safety and quality of life for adults and seniors in their homes. She will also perform pre-operative assessments, review and educate about medications and health conditions, assess eligibility for certified homecare, and evaluate home safety.

“Our interdisciplinary team at the Center for Healthy Aging has combined expertise, including nurses, resource coordinators and dementia specialists. I am very excited to be working in my role as a transitional care nurse,” Quinn says.

Hartford HealthCare Center for Healthy Aging is a not for profit member of Hartford HealthCare Senior Services. Each of the 11 resource and assessment centers are designed to enhance access to services and information related to attaining optimal quality of life for seniors and their caregivers. For more information about Hartford HealthCare Center for Healthy Aging, visit http: //hhccenterforhealthyaging.org or call 1.877.424.4641.