Empath Health News and Blog
Hospices Struggle to Access Patients in Nursing Homes Amid Pandemic
To address pandemic spread concerns, the U.S. Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced critical measures last week to keep nursing home residents safe from exposure to COVID-19. Recently our Vice President of Strategy and Business Development Scott...
Meet Our Volunteers of the Year: Part 2
Our celebration of volunteers continues as we introduce our second pair of 2020 Volunteer of the Year recipients and applaud their extraordinary service. Nero Jones - Organizational Support Volunteer Office – Welcome Center Jones began volunteering with Empath Health...
NCNW Women History Month: Karen Davis-Pritchett
Our Vice President of Access and Inclusion Karen Davis-Pritchett, M.Ed. recently participated in a Women's History Month video for the National Council of Negro Women St. Petersburg Metropolitan Section. In the video, she discusses her role at Empath Health and the...
Reducing the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes – The Weekly Challenger
Today, more than 30 million people in the United States have diabetes. To help address the issue in Pinellas County, Suncoast PACE began offering the National Diabetes Prevention Program. Read how participants learn to make healthier food choices, manage stress and...
On Love
If you ever wonder what it is that stirs us from within to strive to be a better person, or enables us to “feel with” someone who is suffering or in pain, or celebrates when good things come together, or spurs us on towards an unlikely or difficult to attain goal, or...
St. Pete nursing home Menorah Manor offers Neshama suite as special place to die
Suncoast Hospice recently collaborated with Menorah Manor in the creation of their new Nashama suite. The suite has been specifically designed to be a soothing space for patients at the end of life. Empath Health Vice President of Innovation and Community Health Stacy...
Empath Health’s Dr. Lawrence Kay Appears on WFLA News Channel 8 to Discuss Covid 19 Preparedness
Dr. Lawrence Kay, Chief Medical Officer, discusses Empath Health’s response and preparedness around Covid 19 on WFLA News Channel 8.
Meet Our Volunteers of the Year: Part 1
Every day the Empath Health family of volunteers are making a difference in the lives of others. Whether supporting the organization from behind the scenes or providing comfort directly to patients and families, we appreciate all our volunteers do to help us provide...
Making an Impact on Care – Cathy Lasky
Congratulations to our February Impact award winner, Cathy Lasky, creative services producer for Empath Health. Lasky has been with the organization for 26 years. In her role, she supports the mission through visual storytelling with...
Golden Repair
Have you heard of Kintsugi? –also known as Kintsukuroi (金繕い, "golden repair"), is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum, a method similar to the maki-e...
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