Parker at Your Door Welcomes a New Nurse Practitioner as it Begins
PARKER AT YOUR DOOR
MEDICAL HOUSE CALLS FOR ADULTS
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convenient primary care without ever leaving their homes.
COURIER LIFE, AUG. 28-SEPT. 3, 2020 11
Medical house call service for older adults expands to new borough
New Hyde Park, New York – As Parker
At Your Door’s Medical House Call service
expands into Brooklyn, it welcomes a new
nurse practitioner to the practice, Elena
A. Kuzin-Palmeri.
Elena comes to Parker with over 30
years of nurse practitioner experience and
has worked in a variety of settings. She
brings a wealth of expertise in palliative
care, hospice care, and end of life care
with a focus on symptom management
and comfort care. She loves working in
the community and has a passion for
working with the elderly population.
She has worked in home care for over 20
years and finds this particular work very
challenging and exciting.
Elena graduated with her Masters
Degree in Nursing from the Hunter-
Bellevue School of Nursing Gerontological
Nurse Practitioner Program in 1990.
She has three certifications - Advanced
Oncology // Gerontological Nurse
Practitioner // Advanced Certified
Hospice and Palliative Nurse. She has
co-authored two books - “100 Questions
and Answers about Radiation Therapy”
and “100 Questions and Answers about
Head and Neck Cancer” and has written a
chapter in “Understanding and Managing
Oncologic Emergencies.” In addition to
Parker at Your Door, Elena also works at
NYU Lutheran Medical Center.
to Serve Patients in Brooklyn
Parker at Your Door, a program through
New Hyde Park-based Parker Jewish
Institute, provides quality and convenient
medical care in the comfort of the homes
of patients who live in Nassau, Suffolk,
Queens and now Kings Counties. Through
the program’s Medical House Calls service,
patients receive quality and convenient
primary care without ever leaving their
homes.
As the region’s aging population
continues to increase, and people live
longer, community health programs such
as Parker At Your Door will become even
more essential.
Scheduled visits begin with a simple
phone call, and patients have 24-hour
telephone access to the Parker at Your
Door care team. The program works with
a variety of insurance plans, including
through Medicare and AgeWell, among
others. A Parker at Your Door coordinator
works with families to determine if a new
patient would qualify.
The Parker At Your Door’s comprehensive
medical team includes a physician,
registered nurse, social worker and care
navigator. In getting to know patients,
the medical team helps to ensure proper
diagnosis and care. They collaborate to
help patients adhere to prescribed medical
treatment, including for acute and chronic
diseases and conditions such as diabetes,
hypertension, COPD and other ailments.
And they arrange follow-up appointments
so that patients receive continued care.
Many Parker At Your Door patients
sign up for the service when they are
discharged from Parker’s Health Care
and Rehabilitation facility. These and
other Parker At Your Door patients are
able to keep up with any needed blood
work, x-rays, flu and pneumonia shots,
podiatry care, physical therapy and more
– all without leaving their homes.
The team also helps patients gain access
to other services that they need.
“The level of support and care from
Parker At Your Door helps enable older
adults to remain safely and comfortably
in their homes rather than cope with
repeated hospital admissions,” said
Michael N. Rosenblut, Parker Jewish
Institute’s President and CEO. “Our
program provides a very important and
needed service for the community.”
About Parker Jewish Institute for
Health Care and Rehabilitation
Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care
and Rehabilitation, which is headquartered
in New Hyde Park, New York, is a leading
provider of Short Term Rehabilitation
and Long Term Care. At the forefront of
innovation in patient-centered health care
and technology, the Institute is a leader
in teaching and geriatric research. Parker
Jewish Institute features its own medical
department, and is nationally renowned
as a skilled nursing facility, as well as a
provider of community-based health care,
encompassing Social Adult Day Care,
Home Health Care, Medical House Calls,
Palliative Care and Hospice.
For more information, please call
(718) 289-2606.
Elena A. Kuzin-Palmeri, Nurse Practitioner
OUR SERVICES
Elena A. Kuzin-Palmeri
Nurse Practitioner for over 30 years
Elena brings a wealth of expertise in the following:
With over 20 years of proven home care experience, she loves
serving the Brooklyn community, and has a passion for working
with the elderly, finding it both challenging and exciting.
For More Information Call (718) 289-2606
Another Community Service of the
Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care & Rehabilitation
271-11 76th Avenue, New Hyde Park, NY 11040
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