Media Coverage
Empath Health Announces Colleague Vaccine Policy
Clearwater & Sarasota – Empath Health has announced a policy that requires colleagues, volunteers and vendors to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The full life care provider serving Tampa Bay and southwest...
Empath Health Announces New Mission-Focused Senior Leaders
Clearwater & Sarasota – Empath Health is pleased to announce its senior-level chief positions serving the newly merged not-for-profit created by the merger of Empath Health and Stratum Health System. The full...
EPIC Fulfills Socials Needs for LGBTQ Elders – The Weekly Challenger
Social isolation affects one in five elder adults, and LGBTQ elders are twice as likely not to be partnered or married and living alone. An alarming 76 percent worry about what will happen to them when they are ready...
Empath Health’s Veteran’s History Project celebrates 100 interviews with a 100-year-old veteran
Joe Grecco is a Suncoast Hospice patient and veteran who was asked to share his WWII combat story for the Veteran’s History Project and it will be stored in the Library of Congress. It is the 100th story recorded...
Veteran Celebrates 100th Birthday In Style – Bay News 9
Suncoast Hospice helped organize a parade to honor patient Anna Bauer, WWII Army Veteran who was a nurse, for her 100th birthday. The Empath Honors program partnered with American Legion Post 238, VFW Post 10093,...
WWII veteran given special 100-year-old birthday parade – WTSP
Suncoast Hospice helped organize a parade to honor patient Anna Bauer, WWII Army Veteran who was a nurse, for her 100th birthday. The Empath Honors program partnered with American Legion Post 238, VFW Post 10093,...
Pinellas Female PWWII vet turns 100, honored with a parade – WFTS
Suncoast Hospice helped organize a parade to honor patient Anna Bauer, WWII Army Veteran who was a nurse, for her 100th birthday. The Empath Honors program partnered with American Legion Post 238, VFW Post 10093,...
Delta Variant Has Hospices Increasingly Concerned About Operations, Finances – Hospice News
As COVID-19 infections surge, hospices are growing increasingly concerned that emerging variants of the virus will severely impact their operations, workforce and finances. Laura Mosby, chief compliance officer of...
Florida to receive $10.6 million to help curb HIV crisis – Tampa Bay Times
Florida will receive $10.61 million in funding to expand HIV infection prevention and treatment efforts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. EPIC’s Executive Director Joy Winheim is featured in a...
Guess Which State Leads the Nation in New HIV Cases – POZ
It’s the perfect timing for the EPIC Sexual Health Center to open in the Tampa Bay area. Florida reported that nearly 4,400 people tested positive for HIV in 2019, more new diagnoses than any other state,...
Why COVID makes it harder for Florida to fight the HIV crisis – Tampa Bay Times Editorial
COVID-19 isn’t the only potentially deadly disease on the rise in Florida. The Sunshine State leads the nation in new HIV cases and ranks third in overall infection rates. Like the coronavirus, HIV is preventable...
Empath Partners in Care opens sexual health center – Watermark
EPIC welcomed supporters to the grand opening of its new sexual health center July 23, the organization’s freestanding facility specializing in sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing and treatment. Read more.