![]() ![]() I then came to DC and went to social work school at The Catholic University of America, then earned another graduate degree from Georgetown. That school basically shaped me into who I am today.Īfter graduating from Gettysburg College, I spent 15 months in a Jesuit novitiate to prepare for the priesthood, but as I sometimes tell others, when I realized I enjoyed talking with the girls who worked n the refectory there rather than gossiping with the priests and brothers over coffee, the sign marked “EXIT” was already on the wall. I went to Staunton Military Academy and thrived in that environment. I consider myself a political junkie, and got in my first political argument in 1968, when I was in the third grade of elementary school In a nutshell, an ambassador is a position of service.Ī: I have many interests and enthusiasms: reading literature and mysteries (I’m a huge Inspector Morse fan), poetry (which I read and write: Housman, Keats, Kipling, Poe, Dickinson are favorites), history and biography, watching films and sometimes collecting movie one-sheets from films I particularly love like FAREWELL MY LOVELY, LA CONFIDENTIAL, CHINATOWN and ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLY WOOD (my all-time favorite).įor the first ten years of my life, I rode horses, growing up on a horse farm where my parents raised and bred Arabian horses. And I got to appreciate the vastness and variety in terrain within our country! That was also a time to re-imagine myself, even for just the 6 weeks of travel, when I shaved my head and explored a different part of myself! LOL XĪ: Over 15 years as a social worker on the Arlington team.Ī: Serving my colleagues and the mission we all share. It was a wonderful opportunity to meet all kinds of people within the group and in the communities that we visited. I rode with 20 other people, mostly college students. Q: What would you like to share to help other employees get to know you?Ī: One fun (non-clinical) fact about myself: One of my highlights in life was to bike across the country the summer after my first year of medical school. I am excited about being an Ambassador as it is an opportunity to go beyond the walls of Fairfax Hospital and connect and reconnect with colleagues in other hospitals and out in the communities that we serve. Q: What are you looking forward to about being an Employee Ambassador?Ī: I love working on interdisciplinary teams so that we can create beautiful care for patients and families going through difficult times. I used to be the medical director for Arlington home teams and at Halquist IPU.īefore that, I worked in the Chicagoland area for another non-profit hospice company, also caring for palliative care and hospice patients in residential, IPU, and hospital settings.Ĭan’t believe it’s been 19 years of doing this amazing work! Time flies! My current role is to serve as attending for our GIP patients at Fairfax Hospital, provide support to other physicians serving as GIP attendings at the other Inova hospitals, and also assist w/ complex discharges of hospital patients to our home hospice teams. Q: How long have you been working at Capital Caring and what is your role?Ī: I have been working at CCH since 2014 so already 8 years! She is a board-certified Adult Nurse Practitioner.Ĭatherine graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in American Literature from Middlebury College and received a Master of Science in Nursing from Vanderbilt University School of Nursing in Nashville, Tennessee. ![]() In this role she had oversight of care delivery to Medicare ISNP and DSNP populations. Director of Clinical Services for Optum’s Complex Care Management in the MidAtlantic region. Catherine worked for more than 10 years with United Health Group, most recently as Sr. Prior to joining Capital Caring Health, Catherine was the Director of Care Management and Population Health at Johns Hopkins HealthCare. Catherine also manages external partnerships including Capital Caring Health’s participation in ACOs and other value-based clinical programs ![]() In this role she is responsible for the development, implementation, and monitoring of clinical programs in support of high-quality patient-centered care delivery across the continuum of services. Arlington Halquist Center – Temporarily ClosedĬatherine McGrady, RN, MSN, is Vice President, Clinical Programs at Capital Caring Health.Advanced Pain Clinic – Temporarily Closed. ![]()
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