AseraCare Hospice has hired Jubi Maggiore, registered nurse and certified hospice and palliative care nurse, to help provide hospice care to patients and their families in Grand Island and the surrounding area.

Maggiore graduated from the Central Community College registered nursing program and has hospital nursing experience as well as more than four years of hospice and home health experience.

Maggiore is certified by the national Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association. She is trained to provide end-of-life care, which improves the quality of life of patients through the assessment, prevention and relief of suffering. This training also provides holistic care for the terminally ill and their families with the emphasis on their physical, psychosocial, emotional and spiritual well-being and needs.

Maggiore will be collaborating with other members of the AseraCare hospice team, which includes a social worker, bereavement coordinator, chaplain, nursing aides, physical and occupational therapists, medical director, pharmacist as well as the patient's own doctor to provide comfort, care and assistance during the patient's final phase of life.

She is trained and has experience in controlling symptoms and providing caring for patients with cancer, Alzheimer's, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart disease, kidney disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and other life-limiting diagnoses.

Mary Lanning names three department directors

HASTINGS Mary Lanning Memorial Hospital has named three new department directors, including two new faces and one familiar one.

Grant Jones and Frankie Collins recently joined the Mary Lanning staff; Tami Lipker is a longtime hospital employee who was promoted to her new position.

Jones is the new director of medical office management/clinical billing at Mary Lanning. He started his career as a respiratory therapist and received his bachelor's degree in health care management from Pfeiffer University in Charlotte, N.C. He received his master's degree in business administration from the University of Phoenix.

Before working into the management side of health care, Jones worked in sleep medicine.

Collins is the new director of surgical services. She was the operating room manager at Hutchinson Hospital in Hutchinson, Kan., before coming to Mary Lanning on Oct. 15, 2007.

She was an operating room nurse for 16 years, working in a variety of places including a same-day surgery center in Atlanta and at a Wichita, Kan., hospital that had 30 operating rooms. She received her nursing degree at Hesston College in Hesston, Kan.

Collins said one of her goals is to orient more people to the operating room.

The new director of diagnostic imaging, Lipker began working at Mary Lanning on Oct. 1, 1975, upon graduation from high school. She graduated from the Mary Lanning School of Radiologic Technology and started work as a staff radiologic technologist in 1977.

Lipker said she worked as a staff technologist, senior technologist, assistant director and interim director before being named director of diagnostic imaging in December 2007.

Redman relocates to J.J. Salon

Billie Jo Redman, formerly of Salon Sensations in Central City, can now be found at J.J. Salon, 1405 W. Charles St., Grand Island.

She will be performing many salon services, including haircuts and styles, colors, perms and formal up-dos. Redman will also provide waxing, pedicures, manicures and ear piercing.

She can be reached at 940-0979.

Hastings graduates from organizational management institute

Tom Hastings, Hastings Area Chamber of Commerce president, graduated in January from the Institute for Organizational Management, a nonprofit leadership training program held at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Hastings, who took over as president of the Hastings chamber in May 2002, has spent the last four years working towards this goal.

The industry leader in nonprofit education, the U.S. Chamber's Institute is a four-year program. Through a combination of required courses and electives, students not only enhance their own organizational management skills but also add new fuel to their organizations, making them run more efficiently and effectively.

The Institute of Organizational management graduate designation signifies completion of 96 hours of live course instruction in association, chamber and nonprofit management. The curriculum for this instruction has been designed by a panel of industry experts and is delivered by university professors, industry experts and leading practitioners in the chamber and association industries.

Hanssen participates in Ethics and Boundaries Test Committee

Dr. G.H. Hanssen of Grand Island participated in the annual Ethics and Boundaries Test Committee meeting on Feb. 22 and 23 at the headquarters of the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners in Greeley, Colo.

The test committee is composed of members of state chiropractic licensing boards in the United States. Members are nominated by the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners board of directors based on their expert knowledge of chiropractic practices and procedures. Hanssen is a member of the Board of Examiners in Chiropractic, Nebraska Health and Human Services.

The examination tests a person's knowledge of the ethics and boundaries issues that could possibly be encountered in chiropractic practice, including ethical misconduct, sexual misconduct and sexual harassment. The examination will give state boards a method to discern knowledge of ethics and boundaries issues as they relate to the chiropractic practice.

Headquartered in Greeley, Colo., the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners is the international testing organization for the chiropractic profession.