May 4, 2006

Joan Doyle, RN, MSN, MBA, Executive Director of Penn Home Care & Hospice Services,
Named to National Advisory Board

(Philadelphia, PA) – The National Association of Home Care and Hospice (NAHC) recently named Joan Doyle, RN, MSN, MBA, to its Hospital Home Care Association of America Advisory Board as well as its Political Action Committee. Doyle is Executive Director of the University of Pennsylvania Health System’s Home Care and Hospice Services.

NAHC is the nation’s largest trade association representing the interests and concerns of home care agencies, hospices, home care aide organizations, and medical equipment suppliers.

Doyle began her career at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) as a staff nurse, later serving in a number of management positions. She has been with Penn’s Home Care and Hospice Services since 1992, and assumed her current role in 1999. Doyle earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Nursing from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, and her MBA from Temple University in 1996.

Penn Home Care and Hospice Services is a component of the University of Pennsylvania Health System and provides professional, high-quality care for patients needing hospice services, home care, and home infusion therapy.

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PENN Medicine is a $2.9 billion enterprise dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research, and high-quality patient care. PENN Medicine consists of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (founded in 1765 as the nation's first medical school) and the University of Pennsylvania Health System.

Penn's School of Medicine is ranked #2 in the nation for receipt of NIH research funds; and ranked #3 in the nation in U.S.News & World Report's most recent ranking of top research-oriented medical schools. Supporting 1,400 fulltime faculty and 700 students, the School of Medicine is recognized worldwide for its superior education and training of the next generation of physician-scientists and leaders of academic medicine.

The University of Pennsylvania Health System includes three hospitals [Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, which is consistently ranked one of the nation's few "Honor Roll" hospitals by U.S.News & World Report; Pennsylvania Hospital, the nation's first hospital; and Penn Presbyterian Medical Center]; a faculty practice plan; a primary-care provider network; two multispecialty satellite facilities; and home care and hospice.

This release is available online at http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/news/News_Releases/may06/doyleNAHC.htm