Aliviado Health provides innovative training, education, mentoring, and resources to home health and hospice teams, giving them advanced expertise in the complexities of care for older adults. Our tailored, compassionate care approach helps patients and caregivers effectively manage symptoms, resulting in improved quality of life, decreased hospital readmissions, lower healthcare utilization and medication use, increased staff knowledge and confidence, reduced costs, and increased patient satisfaction scores.
Aliviado Health is grateful to our sponsors who have funded portions of the work to make Aliviado Health what it is today:
Staff
Tara A. Cortes,
Tara A. Cortes
PhD, RN, FAAN
Dr. Cortes’ distinguished career spans executive leadership, nursing education, research and practice. She has provided significant contributions to advancing health care, particularly for those people with limited access to the health care system. Significantly, she has developed collaborative models with advanced practice nurses and physicians in traditional as well as non-traditional settings to enhance the care of the American older adult population.
Ab Brody,
Ab Brody,
PhD, RN, FAAN, FPCN
Ab Brody is the founder of Aliviado. He is an expert in the development and implementation of interprofessional care quality assurance performance improvement programs in home and community based settings. A board certified gerontological and palliative care nurse practitioner, his specific focus in one ensuring persons with dementia and their caregivers receive expert care, wherever they are.
Bei Wu,
Bei Wu,
PhD
Dr. Wu’s career in gerontology has been distinguished by interdisciplinary collaborations with researchers in various disciplines (particularly in nursing and in dentistry) at many academic institutions and organizations in the U.S. and abroad. As Principal Investigator, she has led a significant number of projects supported by federal agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Her numerous publications cover a variety of issues related to aging and health, including long-term care, dementia, caregiving, and oral health.
Shih-Yin Lin,
Catherine Schneider,
Kimberly Convery,
