Broad Reach Healthcare Happenings

Jamie Nunes has been promoted to the position of Hospice Administrator at Broad Reach Hospice, having been part of Broad Reach since 2014.

She became a nurse more than 40 years ago and, as she puts it in modest fashion, her career has embraced “a wide variety of things.” Her hospital work began in cardiac critical care and medical surgery suites, and evolved, adding more management and administrative responsibilities. “As kind of a fluke, I took a temporary position in a VNA (Visiting Nurse Association) off-Cape, and that’s how I first got involved in home care,” she recalls. That was 30 years ago. She came to Cape Cod in 1994 to continue that focus, working with the VNA here for 15 years, six of them as a team leader.

In 2014, she made the move to Broad Reach. She was the hospice clinical services director for seven years, then returned to bedside nursing in a case manager role for the last year. In October, she was asked to step into the administrator’s role in an acting capacity, and now is promoted to serve as the agency’s administrator.

Her responsibilities include leadership of a team of about 35 professionals, ranging from front office administration to admissions, nursing staff, home health aides and social workers, quality improvement and education, chaplaincy, and bereavement services. She can step in as a manager on call, and given her extensive hands-on professional experience, becomes a resource for advice on patient care and best practices.

“When Jamie joined us almost ten years ago, her rare combination of extensive clinical experience combined with a deeply rooted sense of hospice, its philosophy and crucial role in quality of life made her a defining success point as Broad Reach Hospice grew to serve more and more of Cape Cod.” says Bill Bogdanovich, President and CEO of Broad Reach Health Care. “We’re proud to have her step into this leadership position in our community.”

“Hospice is clinically driven, but really very much heart driven as well,” says Jamie. “We build and keep building relationships with our clients and their families as well as our care partners. Part of my role is to ensure we keep our caseloads low enough so nurses can spend the time they need at moments of crisis and remain as supportive as possible. This flexibility helps make it possible for this great team to do its important work.”