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Tamworth Select Board presses Tamworth Community Nurses on $75,000 town funding request
Summary
The new executive director and TCNA board members defended core nursing services and a multiyear funding model; select board members urged a more robust business plan and alternatives to relying on town operating support.
Julie Monoy, executive director of Tamworth Community Nurses Association (TCNA), told the Select Board that TCNA provides nursing services in Tamworth that are not reimbursed by typical healthcare payers and that town support remains essential to sustain those services.
"TCNA's role is still filling those gaps," Monoy said, describing three case examples in which staff provided home visits, facilitated virtual provider visits and helped a 93-year-old resident arrange end-of-life supports to allow that person to remain at home.
Monoy said TCNA's 2024 workload included about 2,037 home, office and phone visits and that the…
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