Kathy Driscoll Senior Vice President & Chief Nursing Officer at Humana
All Home Care Matters
Enriched Life Home Care Services
5.0 • 88 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
All Home Care Matters was privileged to welcome Kathy Driscoll as guest to the show. Kathy is the Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer at Humana.
About Kathy Driscoll:
Kathy Driscoll is Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer at Humana, where she oversees Humana’s community of over 10,000 nurses, care managers, social workers, and therapists.
Under Kathy’s leadership, Humana has partnered with nearly 40 universities and funded the CenterWell Home Health Lab at Emory University to help address the nursing shortage and prepare nursing students for careers in home health. Kathy is also a Registered Nurse with more than 30 years of experience in nursing.
She holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Seton Hall University and a Master of Science in Nursing Management and Executive Leadership from Sacred Heart University. Kathy also serves as President of the Board of Trustees for the American Nurses Foundation and is on the Editorial Board for Case Management Today.
About Humana:
Founded in 1961, Humana has evolved to become one of America’s best-known health and wellbeing companies, increasingly focused on two key areas: 1) insurance, offered primarily in Medicare Advantage health plans; and 2) payer-agnostic healthcare services, offered primarily under the CenterWell brand, as CenterWell Senior Primary Care, CenterWell Home Health and CenterWell Pharmacy.
With nearly 260 locations across the country, CenterWell Senior Primary Care, along with its sister brand Conviva Care Center, make up the largest provider of senior-focused primary care in the U.S.
CenterWell Home Health, with more than 350 branches in 38 states, is the largest home-health provider in the country.
Humana employs more than 10,000 nurses along with other clinicians such as social workers, licensed clinical counselors, occupational, speech, and physical therapists serving in various roles across the enterprise.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to all home care matters, the show where we discuss all things home care, with discussions on important age-related matters and topics. |
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| 0:26.4 | Hello and welcome back to All Home Care Matters. |
| 0:30.0 | If this is your first time visiting us here at the show, we want to say thank you for taking time out to be with us today. |
| 0:31.8 | We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is, and that's why we try and make each |
| 0:35.8 | episode here at All Home Care Matters, something that will hopefully matter try and make each episode here at all home care matters, |
| 0:38.0 | something that will hopefully matter to you. Today, we are honored to welcome Kathy Driscoll. |
| 0:43.5 | Kathy is the senior vice president and chief nursing officer at Humana. Welcome, Kathy. How are you |
| 0:49.4 | today? I'm great. Thanks for having me. Appreciate it. Our pleasure. Our pleasure. Kathy, let's start a little bit. |
| 0:56.9 | I introduced you as the chief nursing officer, one of your titles at Humana, but tell us about your |
| 1:01.8 | journey, you know, maybe a little bit about your current role at Humana. Sure, happy to do that. |
| 1:08.6 | You know, nursing is such a personal journey for so many people. And I find that |
| 1:12.9 | so many nurses have been inspired to become a nurse by either someone in their family who was a nurse |
| 1:19.7 | or someone in their family was taken care of by a nurse. And it's true in my case, too. My two |
| 1:25.9 | favorite aunts were nurses. I thought they had the coolest |
| 1:28.8 | jobs in the world. One worked in the emergency department and one worked in community health. And I really |
| 1:35.4 | just saw that besides having what I thought were cool jobs, they made such a difference. They had |
| 1:41.2 | these relationships and they came home happy from work. They worked hard, |
| 1:46.0 | but they came home happy. So I decided that I wanted to become a nurse. I wasn't quite sure |
| 1:52.0 | what the practice setting was going to be. And I practiced in several different areas from |
| 1:58.4 | hospitals to long-term care. I have to say home health, |
| 2:03.3 | where I spent probably about 15 of the 35 plus years I've been a nurse, was my favorite |
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