Home Care & Hospice Hall of Fame
Donna DeBlois, RN, BSW, MSB, MBA, AHACPresident of MaineHealth at Home |
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Mother TeresaSelf-described home care and hospice nurse, founder of the Missionaries of Charity |
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Senator Frank E. MossAuthor of the Medicare and Medicaid home care benefits, author of the first Medicare hospice legislation, counsel to NAHC, chairman of the Foundation for Hospice and Homecare, and first chairman of the board of the Caring Institute |
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Hon. Elisabeth Kübler-RosAuthor of the seminal book |
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Senator Claude PepperHouse sponsor of the Medicare home care benefit and the Medicare hospice benefit |
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Ms. Lillian D. WaldFounder of the Henry Street Settlement, which became the Visiting Nurse Service of New York; often referred to as the “Mother of Home Care” |
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William J. Simione, Jr., C.P.A.Partner, Simione Consultants, founding chairman of the Home Care and Hospice Financial Managers Association, and founding chairman of the Home Care and Hospice PAC |
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Senator Susan CollinsThe member of Congress who introduced and brought about the enactment of more home care legislation than anyone except Claude Pepper and Frank E. Moss |
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Dr. Arthur S. FlemmingSecretary of Health Education and Welfare under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, appointed Commissioner of Aging by President Richard M. Nixon and chairman of the board of SpeakOut USA, which organized bus trips across the United States between 1993 and 1997 |
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Ms. Mary S. SutherOne of the founders of NAHC, three-term chairman of the board and its predecessor, the National Association of Home Health Agencies, and of the Visiting Nurses Association of America |
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Senator Edward M. KennedyCo-sponsor of Medicare and Medicaid home care benefits, sponsor of the Medicare hospice benefit, and author of the CLASS Act |
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Ms. Helen HayesActress, home care activist, spokeswoman for NAHC, and narrator of the film “No Place Like Home” |
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Senator Robert J. DoleSenate majority leader, co-chair of the Caring Institute, author of the Americans with Disabilities Act, sponsor of the Medicare hospice benefit and counsel to NAHC |
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Dr. Ruth C. ConstantChairman of NAHC, twice chairman of the Texas Association for Home Care, chairman of the Foundation for Hospice and Homecare, and head of the Home Healthcare Nurses Association |
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Hon. Hugh DownsAnchor of ABC News “20/20” and host of NBC’s “Today Show” and “Tonight Show,” chairman of PBS’s first program on aging, and advocate for hospice and home care |
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Dr. Virginia HendersonDean of Yale School of Nursing, author of the most widely accepted text on nursing, and advocate of home care and hospice |
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Mr. Don WortleyFounding chairman of NAHC, first treasurer of NAHC, and president of the Foundation for Hospice and Homecare |
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Hon. Rosalynn CarterFormer first lady of the United States and founder of the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregiving |
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Hon. Robert Butler, M.D.First director of the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health, author of Why Survive? Being Old in America, founder of the Department of Geriatrics at the Mount Sinai Medical Center, and CEO of the International Longevity Center |
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Ms. Michele A. QuiroloChairman and vice-chairman of NAHC, chairman of NAHC’s government affairs committee for 8 years |
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Senator John BreauxChairman of the Senate Special Committee on Aging and co-chair of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare. |
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Dame Cicely SaundersHead of St. Christopher’s Hospice in London and godmother of the modern hospice movement |
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Ms. Andrea L. DevotiChairman and secretary of NAHC and president of the Pennsylvania Association for Home Care |
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Ms. Elaine D. StephensChairman and secretary of NAHC and chairman of the Home Healthcare Nurses Association |
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Mr. Mike VanceDean of Disney University and author of Think Out of the Box |
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Dr. Margaret CushmanChairman and secretary of NAHC and first dean of Home Care University |
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Mr. Gary M. BremerDirector and treasurer of NAHC, co-founder of the Foundation for Medically Fragile Children, member of the board for the Caring Institute and the Foundation for Hospice and Homecare |
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Ms. Helen HeyrmanChairman, the Forum of State Associations and executive director, the Illinois Home Care Association |
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Mr. Ronald A. MaloneNAHC board member, CEO and later chairman of Gentiva Health Services who helped unify the home care industry |
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Maggie KuhnFounder of the Gray Panthers, an organization that was instrumental in nursing home reform, the prohibition of forced retirement, and fighting health care fraud |
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President William J. ClintonPushed for expansion of the Medicare home health care benefit and helped defeat home health copays in 1997 |
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Mr. J. Mark BaiadaFounder of BAYADA Home Health Care and an advocate for compassionate, excellent and reliable home health care for people of all ages |
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Ms. Ruth CastellanoVice president of BJC Home Care Services and director of Christian Hospital Home Health Care |
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Mr. Rod WindleyFounder of Healthfield, Chairman of Gentiva Health Services, member of the NAHC Board, president of the Georgia Association for Home Health Care, and chairman of the Fragile Kids Foundation |
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Ms. Jeannee Parker MartinPresident and co-owner of The Corridor Group, Corridor International, and Corridor Media, board member of NAHC, the National Hospice Foundation, and the National Hospice Working Group |
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Honorable Tarky LombardiNew York State senator who sponsored the Nursing Home Without Walls program |
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Ms. Mary LabyakFounder of Suncoast Hospice, chair of the National Hospice Foundation board of trustees, and co-chair of the National Center for Care at the End of Life |
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Honorable Dirk KempthorneU.S. secretary of the interior, U.S. senator from Idaho, 30th governor of the state, and chairman of the National Governors Association where he led efforts to rebalance Medicaid expenditures toward greater use of home care |
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Ms. Katheen DoddFounder and CEO of The Corridor Group, member of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization’s Technical Advisory Commission, and regional representative on the NAHC board |
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Ms. Judith BellomeCEO of Douglas Country County Visiting Nurses, member of the executive council of AARP Kansas and Douglas Country Senior Center Board, and NAHC board member |
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Hon. Max ClelandWar hero, former U.S. senator for Georgia, youngest-ever administrator of the Veterans Administration, advocate for the disabled, and honorary trustee of the Caring Institute |
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Ms. Cathy FrascaExecutive director of South Hills Health System Home Health Agency, member of the advisory council at Caring to Help Others, and vice chair of the NAHC board |
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Mr. Paul HoganCo-founder of Home Instead Senior Care, board member of Home Instead Senior Care Foundation, and anchor donor for Home Instead Center for Successful Aging |
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Ms. Carol RaphaelPresident and CEO of Visiting Nurse Service of New York, chair of the New York eHealth Collaborative, and member of the Commission on Long-Term Care |
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Mr. Christopher ReeveActor, director, vice chairman of the National Organization on Disability, and chairman of the Christopher Reeve Foundation to conquer diseases of the nervous system and brain |
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Ann Armstrong-DaileyFounded Children’s Hospice International at a time when few hospices would accept children. She was committed to changing that inequity after facing the death of a family member without support. |
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Sister Mary GiovanniWas charged with caring for the sick and dying of her Felician order. This experience led her to found Angela Hospice, the first facility of its kind in Michigan. |
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Rosemary Johnson-HurzelerHas spent nearly four decades as president and CEO of America’s first hospice, The Connecticut Hospice. Under her inspired leadership, the organization literally wrote the book on hospice. |
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Susan LevineExecutive director of Hospice of the Valley, one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit hospices, where she oversees 1,500 staff members and 2,500 volunteers. Her passion for community-based end-of life care has led her to be active on national policy issues related to home care and hospice. |
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Senator Ron WydenChairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee and a longtime ally of home care and hospice. He has sponsored key pieces of legislation that would increase access to home care and hospice, including the Hospice HELP Act and the Independence at Home Act demonstration project. |
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Barbara CitarellaBarbara was a charter member of NAHC in 1982 and has always looked to contribute. Today, she continues to make a mark by serving on various NAHC task forces and committees and presenting first class education sessions at NAHC conferences. She has achieved national recognition for her expertise in home care and hospice emergency management as well as in bioterrorism. |
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Larry MeigsIn 1998 Larry Meigs co-founded Visiting Angels. Since then, it has grown from one to more than 340 franchises located in 45 states. Larry is known as a leader who provides care and support for his employees and insists that they provide the highest-quality services to the patients and families they serve. |
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Diana, Princess of WalesThe Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice – which provides free, quality hospice care to the people of Glasgow – quickly ignited a movement advocating hospice care. The charity honors Diana, who used her celebrity to raise funds and support for hospice, a topic that was previously taboo. |
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Margaret ShepherdMargaret Shepherd, a founding board member of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice, facilitated the development of unprecedented mental health programs and geriatric care management. Among her groundbreaking accomplishments are the establishment of the first residential program for HIV/AIDS cases and the first licensed Community Mental Health provider within a Medicare-certified home health agency. |
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Keith MyersThe LHC Group began in 1994 at the kitchen table of Keith and Ginger Myers. Their desire, pure and simple, was to help people. As they achieved success, they adopted a corporate model focused on providing home care services in rural and underserved areas. In just 20 years, LHC Group grew from one to more than 300 agencies, with over 10,000 caregivers/employees, located in 29 states. Mr. Myers has also distinguished himself in joining NAHC to lead battles in Congress. |
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Denise R. SchraderDenise Schrader is president and executive director of Visiting Nurses Association in Rockville, Illinois. She’s also vice president of care, continuum and wellness at Rockford Health System, where she leads Mercy Home Health Care, Mercy Hospice Care, and Mercy Durable Medical Equipment. She has 32 years of experience in health care, the last 20 in home care administration. She has chaired the Home Health Care Nurses Association and now promotes in-home care nationwide as NAHC’s chairman of the board. She has also advanced technology at Rockford, where she developed a clinically integrated network, a Medicare ACO, and robust post-acute services to improve the continuum of care. |
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Walter W. Borginis IIIWalter Borginis is president and CEO at the Visiting Nurse Association of Greater Philadelphia. He serves as treasurer of NAHC’s board and chairman of its finance committee, besides being a board member of the Home Care & Hospice Financial Managers Association, the Voluntary Nonprofit Home Care Association of America, and the Hospice Association of America. Formerly, he served as senior VP and CFO at the Abramson Center for Jewish Life/Philadelphia Geriatric Center. A CPA and chartered global management accountant, he was the force behind a heroic reinvention of the VNA of Greater Philly, and he has lent his strategic skills for over 20 years to home care and hospice. |
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Beverly MaloneBeverly Malone is a leader in the conversation about nursing. As CEO of the National League for Nursing, she speaks out on the nurse educator shortage and role of nursing in ensuring culturally competent care to different populations. She understands their concerns because she grew up in the segregated South. Her journey to the top of the nursing profession took her to the UK, where she was general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing before heading the NLN. She has served on the Kaiser Family Foundation and been elected to the Institute of Medicine, where she contributed to a groundbreaking report, “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health.” |
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Anthony S. FauciAnthony Fauci helps millions as the nation’s top doctor of infectious diseases. He leads the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health. As director of NIAID, he oversees an extensive research portfolio into emerging diseases like Zika and Ebola, as well as more established diseases like tuberculosis, malaria, asthma, and HIV/AIDS, a disease that once killed thousands of young men in hospice nationwide. Though he admired the comfort that hospice gave to victims of AIDS, his mission was to save lives. So he helped change rules in order to approve drugs that turned HIV/AIDS into a manageable condition rather than a sentence of death. |
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Kate MiddletonThe Duchess of Cambridge is so passionate about children’s hospice that she chose East Anglia Children’s Hospice as one of her first causes after becoming HRH in 2011. Since then she has made frequent visits to EACH and other hospices like it to put children’s hospice at the forefront of people’s minds. During her visits, she talks to staff, meets the children, and learns about their families’ needs. She’s especially interested in the role of volunteers, an issue she is exploring with her foundation. And she supports Children’s Hospice Week by raising awareness and funds so families of dying kids can make the most of the precious time they have left. |
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Florence Nightingale“The ultimate destination of all nursing is the nursing of the sick in their own homes,” Florence Nightingale wrote around 1867. By then she was known as “the lady with the lamp” for her habit of making hospital rounds at night while in charge of nursing soldiers during the Crimean War. It’s less well known that she also shined a light on the role of home care in giving the poor the best possible care. Her commitment to social reform led her to establish the Nightingale School of Nursing in London. Her pioneering institution changed nursing by training women to see their field as both a profession and a calling. |