Eagleville Hospital’s legacy has always been a natural selling point for Denise Hennessey, the hospital’s Clinical Recruitment Manager. After all, few substance use disorder treatment facilities have been around as long as Eagleville.
Much of Wendy Maneval’s extensive career has been spent at the forefront of health policy and health law. But the times she feels the most satisfied is when she’s working closely with the people for whom she’s advocating. And so, she describes her recent appointment as Eagleville Hospital’s Chief Legal Officer as “putting me right where I need to be.”
Elizabeth A. Perrong has been appointed Vice President of Human Resources for Eagleville Hospital. In this position, which Elizabeth assumed in January, she oversees all personnel matters, from recruitment and retention to training and performance management, and, “most importantly,” she says, employee engagement.
Greg Early has been in recovery for four years, but he’s not disconnected from his former life. In the last few weeks of 2018, four people he knew died of overdoses. Greg sees himself in each one of them.
There has been much discussion recently surrounding Eagleville Hospital’s intent to become a tobacco-free
campus. I am writing to inform you that this policy will officially take effect on
Monday March 4, 2019
Life has a way of turning up the intensity at the most inconvenient moments. Kerry Morath, who began drinking as a teen, had achieved about six months of sobriety when his father had a stroke. So, Kerry moved in with his parents to help care for his ailing father.
Every Tuesday night, James Borgesi returns to Eagleville to talk with patients in different units. He always tries, as he says, “to keep it real with them.”
In August 2018 Tom Coates celebrated his fifth year of employment at Eagleville Hospital. It’s a milestone he once could have never imagined achieving.
Quitting smoking during treatment for a substance use disorder has long been considered too difficult for patients. But recent research is now debunking this long-held belief.
At first, Rick was blindsided by his younger son’s transformation. A good-looking, outgoing teenager, Jeff became indifferent and introverted practically overnight. Rick gave Jeff plenty of space and wrote it off as a phase—after all, hormones could wreak havoc on a 14-year-old’s self-esteem.
