Six Quarry Hill employees earn medication certification

Sun, 12/16/2018 - 7:30pm

CAMDEN — Six certified nursing assistants (CNAs) and one Activities Department staffer at Quarry Hill in Camden have completed the certification process required by the Maine Department of Health and Human Services to serve as certified residential medication aides (CRMAs) in a licensed assisted living center.

The newly certified group includes Iris Perkins-Powell, Savannah Tinker-Wadsworth, Karyn Willis, Mercedes Tremblay, Andrea Annis, Jennifer Sanderson, and Katlyn Grubbs. They will be eligible to begin working as CRMAs at Quarry Hill this winter, after completing an in-service orientation program.

Quarry Hill is Midcoast Maine’s premier extended-care retirement community for adults age 55-plus, according to a news release. It is a member of the Pen Bay Medical Center family of services, which also includes Pen Bay Medical Center, Pen Bay Physicians and Associates, and the Knox Center.

To learn more about Quarry Hill, call 921-6116, or visit www.quarryhill.org or www.facebook.com/QuarryHillCamdenMaine.