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Tina M. Marrelli, MSN, MA, RN, FAAN, is the President of Marrelli and Associates, Inc., a healthcare publishing and consulting firm. She has worked in healthcare for more than 20 years and is the author of many award-winning books, including The Handbook of Home Health Standards: Quality, Documentation, and Reimbursement; Home Health Aide Guidelines for Care: Instructor Manual; Home Care Nursing: Surviving in an Ever-Changing Care Environment; The Nurse Manager’s Survival Guide; and A Guide for Caregiving: What’s Next? Planning for Safety, Quality, and Compassionate Care for Your Loved One and Yourself.
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Marrelli attended Duke University, where she received her bachelor’s degree in nursing. She also has master’s degrees in both healthcare administration and in nursing. She has worked in home care, hospice, hospitals, nursing homes, and public health. She has practiced as a visiting nurse or managed in-home care and hospice for over 20 years. She also worked at Medicare’s central office (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services or CMS) for four years on Medicare Part A home care and hospice policies and operations, as well as serving as the Interim Branch Chief for Medicare Part B. She loves policy and the nuances that frame and can improve care practice and delivery.
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An international healthcare consultant, Marrelli specializes in at-home models of care, those that are provided in the community to people being cared for at home. She and her team of specialized consultants provide services related to the design and implementation of challenges to providing home and community-based care. In that capacity, they have served hundreds of clients throughout the world, clients who represent varying segments of service to home care or hospice and/or related services and products. Marrelli served on the workgroup that defined the first hospice nurse standards and also served as a reviewer for the revised Home Health Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, published by the American Nurses Association (ANA).
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Marrelli has been the editor of three peer-reviewed publications and is an Editor Emeritus for Home Healthcare Now, for which she was the Editor-in-Chief for eight years. She actively serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Community Health Nursing and American Nurse Journal. She has also served as a team leader as a quality monitor for the Office of the Inspector General of the US Department of Health and Human Services. She also provides educational content and expertise with over 20 online CE MedBridge courses and served for a number of years as a home care and hospice advisor (www.medbridgeeducation.com).
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Marrelli was a founding member of the International Home Care Nurses Organization (www.IHCNO.org). She has contributed chapters to books as well as numerous journal articles about hospice, home care, documentation, management, and other topics. From living on the Gulf Coast of Florida for many years, she has learned firsthand about climate change and health. To show such effects, she wrote an article called “We’re Not the Only Species Being Impacted,” which was published in the June 2022 issue of American Nurse Journal (Volume 17, Number 6).
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Marrelli and Associates, Inc., provides consultative services to universities, insurers, hospitals, home health agencies, and hospices, with the goal of improving health, healthcare, and actionable improvement. Correspondence, including feedback, recommendations, or suggestions about this book may be directed to Tina Marrelli at news@marrelli.com or at www.marrelli.com.
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Tina and her husband, Bill, have done “sea turtle patrol” for decades on the beaches of southwest Florida. There is almost nothing as exciting as seeing these charismatic creatures, vestiges of the dinosaur era, come ashore to lay their eggs and then to see hatchlings emerge. All sea turtle species are either threatened or endangered.