The Kansas Home Care & Hospice Association (KHCHA) Awards Committee selected, and their Board approved, to recognize Greenwood County Hospital Home Health's nominee, Jennifer Eagleson, APRN, as the 2023 Home Care and Hospice Physician of the Year Honoree. They presented her with this award at their Annual Meeting luncheon on Thursday, September 28, at the DoubleTree in Lawrence.
Jennifer Eagleson is an Advance Nurse Practitioner who specializes in family medicine at Eureka Clinic. Her friendly down to earth approach puts patients and providers at ease while earning their trust with her patient advocation and compassionate care. Eagleson maintains open communi-cation and a great working relationship with the local home health agency with her prompt responses to requests and orders. She has been an RN for 22 years and graduated in the fall of 2015 with her APRN. Her experience spans from newborns and to geriatrics, wound care and cardiology. Eagleson is interested not only in the healthcare of her patients but the whole community. She actively supports local youth activities including 4-H events, Eureka recreational activities such as sponsoring softball teams and free swim pool days. When working with a mobile healthc are company, she made home visits with home health nurses to ensure thorough and timely provider assessments were performed for vulnerable home health patients who had limited ability to leave the home for appointments. Her timely communication is a huge asset to the Home Health field staff. She is a full-time caregiver who will assist patients with anything from toileting and transfers, to assisting with codes that come in through the emergency room (ER). When her patients are in the ER and she knows this, she makes a point to go over and check on them.
She assists in seeing patients on the hospital nursing floor and in the ER, as well as her clinic appointments. She is a huge advocate for Home Health services and sees the value Home Health brings to all patients.
(Article and photo courtesy of Shannon Sanders)
