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Eva Bellis
Eva Bellis RN, BSN, CCM
“Our goal is to help employees meet their personal health goals by offering monitoring, nurse wellness coaching, and health information in their workplace. As nurses, we actively promote health and wellness.” Eva Bellis graduated from Alfred University in 1979, with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, and immediately joined the staff of the Neuro/geropsychiatric Unit at Strong Memorial Hospital. Her 16 years at the unit was demanding yet rewarding, as she managed the challenges of complex patient conditions that required both medical and psychiatric interventions. She was clinical nurse leader during her last 5 years on this unit, responsible for the daily clinical operations of the floor, taking into account patient issues and staffing needs. Eva left the neuro/geropsychiatric unit in 1996 to join the recently formed Community Nursing Center, at the University of Rochester, School of Nursing. At the CNC, she worked on a wide variety of projects, including helping the Visiting Nurse Service to develop their mental health program providing home care to the mentally ill. She also assisted in the development and implementation of a case management program with a major Health Maintenance Organization in the Rochester area, focusing on managing the care of the mentally ill client from time of admission to the hospital through discharge and transition home. She worked collaboratively with the clients, and their health care providers, to address the clients’ needs; the program had a positive impact on their lives and significantly decreased readmission rates. In 1999, Eva obtained certification in case management. Health promotion and disease prevention were major parts of Eva’s practice; bringing them to the workplace seemed both logical and exciting to her. She piloted a wellness program with several agencies and organizations in the Rochester area, combining Health Risk Appraisals, telehealth monitoring and health coaching. The results were very promising, and Eva presented the program and her preliminary findings to the conference of the HomMed Partner Network in Las Vegas. Based on this work, she developed a turnkey manual for Health Checkpoint, a new line of business dedicated to wellness in companies and the community. In 2002, Eva became the director of Health Checkpoint.
Rebecca Locke RN graduated from University of Vermont
in 1991, with a Bachelor of Science in nursing, and became a
Licensed Massage Therapist in 1998. She worked as a Home Health
Aide in Dedham, Massachusetts, and then joined Strong Memorial
Hospital as a Level II Staff Nurse in 1992, working in an
acute psychiatric unit with a neuro/geropsychiatric focus,
including several years in the Electroconvulsive Therapy
clinic. She joined the Rochester Psychiatric Center, as Program
Manager, in 2001. As an independent Contract Nurse since
2002, she has worked with inmates in regional detention centers
and psychiatric patients in the community at large. In several
years with Health Checkpoint, Rebecca’s work has ranged
from giving chair massages at Health Fairs to facilitating corporate wellness programs at local businesses. Most recently her primary focus has been on growing the corporate and community flu prevention program. Julie Kuss
Julie Kuss, RN
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