Diana Christine, RN
Supervisor, The Community Hospice
The Caring Award recognizes those who have exhibited exemplary compassion, skills and service and/or whose actions exemplify caring in the home care setting.
Compassionate and skillful with a heart to serve. Those are just some of the qualities that exemplify Diana Christine, RN, supervisor of Central Intake and Admissions for The Community Hospice. In her nine-year tenure with the non-profit provider, she has served in various staff and leadership roles of increasing responsibility and demonstrated a caring and compassionate approach to patients in the final stages of life, never forgetting the need to treat people with the respect and dignity that they deserve.
Her “can-do” attitude is perhaps rivaled only by her ability to earn a patient’s trust and establish relationship with patients, providers and her own staff.
A recent case involved a young patient with a medically complex terminal illness, IV drug use, previous medical non-compliance and highly suspicious of a communicable illness.
Unwilling to turn a dying and homeless patient back on the streets with nowhere to turn, Diana adopted her can-do approach and established a trusting relationship with the patient and then engaging other hospice leaders and our acute care partners in the system to help develop a plan.
With considerable collaboration between the acute care team and the hospice team, the patient who couldn’t and wouldn’t be served anywhere else, ultimately passed comfortably in Hospice care.
Diana is the advocate we would all want on our behalf to care for our critical needs and to mobilize resources if ever we fell vulnerable and in need of help.
