Better Ending | Central MA Partnership to Improve Care at the End of Life

About

Staff & Board Members

Staff

Christine E. McCluskey, RN
Executive Director

Grace F. Blydenburgh
Community Liaison

Pauline Norris
Administrative Assistant

Board Officers

Dennis Batey, MD
Chair
Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
Fallon Community Health Plan

Lois B. Green
Secretary
Community Representative

Carlton A. Watson, MSW
Treasurer
Executive Director
Henry Lee Willis Community Center

Board Directors

Richard C. Barry, Jr., Esq.
Partner
Fletcher, Tilton and Whipple
Worcester County Bar Association

Ann E. Carlson
Executive Vice President and Managing Director
Sovereign Bank

Walter Ettinger Jr, MD, MBA
President
UMass Memorial Medical Center

Gerald M. Gates
President
American Stop Loss

Karen H. Green
President and CEO
VNA Care Network, Inc.

David A. Kaufman, MD
Chief of Critical Care Medicine
St. Vincent Hospital

Michael H. Kelleher, MD
Medical Director for Quality and Medical Management
Fallon Clinic

Rev. Paul D. Kennedy, DD
Trinity Lutheran Church, ret.

Thomas D. Manning
Deputy Chancellor
Commonwealth Medicine
UMass Medical School

Christine E. McCluskey, RN
Executive Director
Better Ending Partnership

Co-Founders

H. Brownell Wheeler, MD

William P. Densmore

Information on Advance Care Planning from the Better Ending Partnership … improving end of life care in Central Massachusetts.