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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...

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...

Be Kind To Yourself

So often what cripples us is not our external circumstances, but the sharp and unforgiving voice of our own internal critic. Through our negative self-talk, we treat ourselves in ways that we would never dream of...

Pediatric Patient Becomes Aspiring Artist

Aspiring artist Maia already has more talent in one finger than many can say they have in their whole body. Like any 11-year-old might be found, she is propped up in bed, a computer screen in front of her. Tonight...

The Checklist

There are so many important things to do today. What is infinitely more important than the checklist, however, is who we are in the midst of our doing. Do we feel grounded, clear-headed, connected to and living out...

Making an Impact on Care – Denise McCoy

Congratulations to our January Impact award winner, Denise McCoy, a respiratory therapist with Suncoast Hospice, a member of Empath Health. McCoy joined the organization in 2016 and cares for patients with...

Healing What Hurts

Richard Groves, the author of the American Book of Living and Dying and the leader of the Sacred Art of Living Center for Spiritual Formation, identifies forgiveness as one of the four primary areas of spiritual pain...

Having Enough – A State of Being

Have you ever felt that if only you had this one particular possession, or achieved this one particular goal, or had a particular amount of money in your retirement account, that then it would be “enough?”...

Making an Impact on Care – Tony Tace

Congratulations to our December Impact award winner, Tony Tace, a maintenance technician. Tace joined the organization in 2015 and has spent the last three and a half years providing service to the Suncoast Hospice...