Empath Health News and Blog
Reflecting on Change with Susan Bruno, Regional Program Director for Suncoast Hospice
Susan Bruno, MSW, regional program director for Suncoast Hospice, a member of Empath Health, has spent the last 40 years caring for others, 30 of those years have been with Suncoast Hospice. Now, she is looking forward to retirement with a theme of self-care....
Spare Moments – Monday Message
Working with people who are living with chronic and life-limiting illness helps us to realize how precious our time is. A hospice patient once shared a quote with me, “Since we know not how we shall die nor when we shall die, how then shall we live?” Writer and poet...
Woman who walked Suncoast Hospice Beach Stroll annually with husband now walks in his memory – ABC Action News
ABC Action News spoke with Brandy Penta on why she is walking in the upcoming 20th Annual Suncoast Hospice Beach Stroll. Read her story.
Making an Impact on Care – Iris Yasso
Congratulations to our April Impact Award winner, Iris Yasso, CNA/HHA, health aide for Suncoast Hospice, a member of Empath Health. Yasso joined the organization nearly 17 years ago. In her role as a nursing aide, she attends to patients in assisted living facilities...
Strolling in Support of Hospice Care
After Brandy Penta’s Grandma Nella Mae died, her family gathered from around the state on Clearwater Beach to walk in her honor at the 2013 Suncoast Hospice Beach Stroll. Eight years later Brandy is gathering a team of friends and family to walk once again on the same...
Suncoast Hospice VP Pruitt: Staff Shortage Is Providers’ Greatest Challenge – Hospice News
As vice president of Florida-based Suncoast Hospice, Marci Pruitt oversees 11 interdisciplinary patient care teams, three inpatient units, bereavement and integrated medicine services. Pruitt will soon retire after more than 30 years as a hospice provider. She sat...
Our Power To Choose – Monday Message
All of us have experienced this at one point or another. Someone does or says something that is upsetting to us, or life throws us a curve that we weren’t anticipating and we react in ways that are not helpful and that we regret later. Think of all the hurt feelings,...
Cardiac Care amid COVID-19 – The Weekly Challenger
COVID-19 has significantly impacted Black communities. Director of Empath Health's Cardiac Programs Janet Roman, DNP, RN, APRN, ACNP-BC, CHFN, ACHPN shares how her team has helped cardiac patients have an improved quality of life while looking for innovative and...
Life is Amazing – Monday Message
Sometimes it seems like the good stuff and the hard stuff are all mixed together. Sometimes you don’t know whether to laugh or to cry. It seems that is just the way life is. Full of wonder and struggle all at the same time. This reading says it all. Life is amazing....
Pinellas teen volunteer keeps hospice resale shop alive, despite pandemic
Empath Health teen volunteer and this year’s Outstanding Young Leader Award recipient, Ian Polachy, was featured on News Channel 8’s Something Good segment to share why he continued to volunteer even during the height of the coronavirus pandemic. “It just makes me...
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