The optimum place for partnering with patients to manage symptoms from advanced illness is in their own homes by a multi-disciplinary Palliative Care team. Dr. Maggie Carpenter, physician and founder of Nightingale Medical in 2014 has always served her patients in their homes, in addition to her office and other places of practice. Now she is pleased to offer the prompt, safe, secure convenience of televisits.
Maggie Carpenter, MD
Founder and Provider
Dr. Maggie Carpenter established her private practice, Nightingale Medical, as a way to provide the highly personalized 1:1 holistic healthcare care needed by people living with advanced illnesses and complicated health conditions. She effectively supports and empowers patients’ wellbeing with an openness to engaging with both traditional and alternative medical treatments and diverse belief systems. Through Nightingale Medical, Dr. Carpenter brings her patients safe, secure, convenient, highly-personalized care and complementary resources.
A Board-Certified primary care and palliative physician, Dr. Carpenter and her palliative care team provide medical care, education, and resources throughout Ulster and Dutchess counties of the Mid-Hudson Valley, New York. By serving only a limited number of patients at a time, she can be readily available via televisit, home visits when needed, in hospitals, and in care facilities.
“I am dedicated to improving our health system through education, personalized primary care that emphasizes prevention and lifestyle modifications, and palliative team care for improved quality of life for my patients’ well-being through serious illness and consequences of aging.”
In addition to Nightingale Medical, Dr. Carpenter serves as the Medical Director of Hudson Valley Hospice. She also teaches young doctors at the Mid-Hudson Family Practice Residency as well as leads a not-for-profit she created, Go Doc Go, sending volunteer doctors to the developing world in support of women’s health. She is sought after as a speaker and educator, and is the author of many articles related to healthcare and empowerment through illness.
Prior to starting Nightingale Medical, Dr. Carpenter practiced in Kansas, New Zealand, Brooklyn and locally. She earned her BA in Russian Studies from Brown University before graduating summa cum laude from SUNY-Downstate Medical School.
Lynda Elaine Carré
Chaplain
Interfaith Spiritual Care & Healing Arts
Rev. Lynda Elaine Carré, Interfaith Palliative and Hospice Chaplain provides Spiritual Care and Healing Arts for people experiencing life transitions related to aging, illness, and dying. She recently joined Dr. Carpenter as a member of the Nightingale Medical’s Palliative Care Team. Since 2015, through Wellspring Passages, she has supported private clients in-home or in hospitals or facilities throughout the Mid-Hudson Valley area of New York State, and nationally via video conference. She is an Ordained Interfaith Chaplain in Good Standing through The Chaplaincy Institute: An Interfaith Seminary & Community, Berkeley, California. She completed her Clinical Practice Education residency year as Chaplain with the Palliative Care Team focusing in ICU, Geriatrics, Oncology, and Emergency at UCLA Hospital in Los Angeles. She is a Certified Sacred Crossings Death Doula, member of End-of-life Doula Alliance (NEDA), a Home Funeral Guide with the National Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA), Certified International Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT) with the International Association of Yoga Therapists, and Energy Therapy Practitioner. See WellspringPassages.com. Follow on Facebook: Wellspring Passages
Rev. Carré offers community education, presentations, trainings, and Wisdom Arts for Dying experiential workshops. She is President, Board of Directors, The Chaplaincy Institute; Former Board Member and current Advisory Council Member for Circle of Friends for the Dying, Kingston, New York; and volunteer Healing Touch practitioner in the Healing Arts Department of Albany Medical Center Hospital, Albany, NY. Visit her website WellspringPassages.com
Barbara Sarah, LCSW
Social Worker
Barbara Sarah is well-known throughout the Hudson Valley for her lifelong passion in the development of community-based Social and Healthcare programs. She has been a professional clinical social worker for more than four decades. She is the recipient of the 2007 “Lifetime Achievement Award” from the New York State Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers. A 23-year cancer survivor, she founded, and for 13 years directed, the award-winning Oncology Support Program at HealthAlliance Hospital in Kingston, New York. This pioneering program has received national and international recognition for its innovative services and programs for cancer patients.
Barbara is a gifted educator, helping people to live well with advanced illness while also educating them and preparing them for their changing future conditions. Her richly developed community relationships expedite the ability of patients and their families to connect with needed social service resources and administrative expertise. Barbara supports patients and their families with making sure important goals and preferences for care are well-considered, documented, and shared. There is a great article about Barbara here.
Some of Barbara’s many accomplishments include Founder, Director, Oncology Support Program, Health Alliance Hospital, Kingston, New York; Co-Founder, Board Member, Circle of Friends for the Dying; Leader of educational community Death Cafés throughout Ulster and Dutchess Counties, and establishing and leading the course “Perpectives on End-of-Life” at Bard College Lifetime Learning Institute; Her education includes MSW 1972 Wurzweiler School of Social Work (Yeshiva University) New York, NY; 1974 Post-Graduate – Family Therapy Institute, North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset , NY; 1976 Post-Graduate – Management in Human Services Adelphi University, Garden City , NY; 1988 Certification in Japanese Mental Health Therapies ToDo Institute, Monkton, VT; 2008, Graduate of the CancerGuides® Professional Training Program sponsored by The Center for Mind-Body Medicine.