A graduate of the University of Michigan School of Nursing, Meg Smith, RN, BSN has over 20 years experience in various nursing settings including hospital care, oncology, nursing home care, home care and Hospice in the home and facility settings. Ms. Smith started Golden Eldercare Management, PC in 2002 while doing private duty home care for a woman with Alzheimer's disease. She is still coordinating care for that first GEM client.
Smith keeps up with Eldercare issues by attending several Local, State and National conferences each year. She volunteers as Secretary of the Board for “A Helping Hand”, a Non-Profit Agency which serves Seniors in Orange, Durham and Chatham Counties. She also serves as Secretary of the Board for the Regional (Southeast) Chapter of the National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers. Ms. Smith has recently been a consultant on the task force for the Orange County, NC Master Aging Plan for 2006-2010. She participated in regular meetings as part of the Disabled/Moderately Impaired Older Adult Subcommittee. Ms Smith is also an associate member of the National Conference of Gerontological Nurse Practitioners.
Nansi Greger-Holt, RN, MSN, MPH has Undergraduate degrees from the University of Vermont in Nursing and Psychology and Master degrees in Public Health/Health Education and Nursing from UNC-Chapel Hill. She is certified as a Registered Nurse, a Gerontological and a Family Nurse Practitioner and as a critical care nurse. With more than 25 years of nursing experience in hospital, home care, long term care and community clinics, Ms. Greger-Holt has had exposure in many arenas of health care. Her basic philosophy is to partner with her patients and their families in gathering information to help them make realistic and informed decisions about their health care while maintaining maximum quality of life, function, and motivation toward wellness. She has been working with GEM since October, 2005.Ms. Greger-Holt has received the following recent awards: the Area Health Education Center (AHEC) of North Carolina Merit Scholarship 1996-1997, the Sigma Theta Tau- National Nursing Honor Society- 1997, and the Duke Hospital Award for Excellence in Nursing – 1995 with special Recognition from the Ernestine Cole Family.
Cheryl Johnson RN, CHPN has been a Nurse since 1970. Her entire career has been working with adults and adult illnesses. She originally worked as a hospital nurse, then she began working for Home Health of Chapel Hill in 1981. She worked several years there as a Case Manager, primarily with the elder population of Northern Orange County. Ms. Johnson remained in home care until 1998. Her passion remains in home care and serving the elder population. Over the past 8 years she has worked as a Hospice Nurse Clinician for Duke Health Community Care (formerly Triangle Hospice) at their Inpatient Care Facility in Hillsborough. Ms Johnson works with Golden Eldercare Management, PC on weekends as an on call Care Manager.Ms Johnson is a member of the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association. She recieved the 2002 Mary Ann and Robert H. Peter Award for Excellence in Nursing Practice from the Duke Friends of Nursing.
Martha L. Henderson RN, MSN, MDiv, DrMin is a graduate of Duke University with a BSN and MSN in gerontological and psychiatric nursing. Dr. Henderson has also obtained her Geriatric Nurse Practitioner education at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1976. To support her role as a holistic caregiver of aging adults, she has integrated additional education including Master of Divinity and Doctorate in Ministry Degrees. She has worked as a primary care provider at UNC Internal Medicine Clinic, as a home health nurse, and was Director of Clinical Services and Geriatric Nurse Practitioner at Carol Woods Retirement Community for ten years. Dr. Henderson was also on the faculty of the UNC Schools of Medicine and Nursing and UNC Hospitals Ethics Committee. She is a Project on Death in America Faculty Scholar. Her special interest is elders with advanced chronic illnesses, such as heart and lung disease, and dementia. Her goal is to help adults live life to the fullest no matter what their state of health and problem-solve with them as they face challenges along the way.
Caroyln H. Taylor, BSW is a social worker with more then twenty years experience dedicated to improving the well being of clients. Her experience includes assisting clients in obtaining home health and home care services. She has provided socialization to clients in their homes and to residents in skilled and assisted living facilities. In 1981, Ms Taylor was a member of a community team in rural eastern North Carolina that was instrumental in beginning the first rural hospice in North Carolina. She has served on regulatory boards including Roanoke Chowan Hospice, Roanoke Chowan Community College, and Hertford Community Department of Social Services.