Laurie Harding, MS, RN
Since its inception, Laurie has created the mission, advanced the vision and mentored the nurses who have improved and changed lives across the Upper Valley.
Laurie has a profound understanding of the potential and possibilities that can be created with grass roots community mobilizing under the expert hands and hearts of a nurse. Under her wise, compassionate, and expert guidance, nurses have been recruited, community boards have been created and a positive community spirit has been built to improve the health and wellbeing of individuals and the community at large. It would be impossible to calculate the collective impact achieved as a result of Laurie’s leadership. Suffice it to say that she has a been force for good.
We owe Laurie a debt of gratitude. Her legacy is one of hope for a healthier future recognizing the incalculable power of a nurse combined with community good will and love of neighbor!
Dr. Dennis McCullough, Co-Director of Upper Valley Community Nursing Project, died unexpectedly on June 3, 2016.
His philosophy is the foundation of our work.
"Shaped by common sense and kindness, grounded in traditional medicine yet receptive to alternative therapies, Slow Medicine is a measured treatment of ‘less is more’ that improves the quality of patients' extended late lives without bankrupting their families financially or emotionally. Expensive state-of-the-art medical interventions do not necessarily deliver superior outcomes. Gentle, personal care often yields better results, not only for elders in late life, but for the families who love them.” —Dennis McCullough
His philosophy is the foundation of our work.
"Shaped by common sense and kindness, grounded in traditional medicine yet receptive to alternative therapies, Slow Medicine is a measured treatment of ‘less is more’ that improves the quality of patients' extended late lives without bankrupting their families financially or emotionally. Expensive state-of-the-art medical interventions do not necessarily deliver superior outcomes. Gentle, personal care often yields better results, not only for elders in late life, but for the families who love them.” —Dennis McCullough
Thanks to Laurie and Dennis’s vision of what could be possible and Laurie’s hard work, management skills and interpersonal savvy there are folks all over the Upper Valley receiving needed services. Services, I might add, that had been unrecognized and unaddressed. Clients are happy, communities are healthier and health care dollars are better allocated.
Joanne Sandberg-Cook
Joanne Sandberg-Cook