
Empath Health Media and Public Relations
Holiday events help LGBTQ seniors in Tampa Bay combat loneliness – Tampa Bay Times
It can be hard to make friends later in life. For members of the LGBTQ community, who may face discrimination from their peers or might be navigating their sexual or gender identity for the first time, it can be especially challenging.. “The biggest issue we heard...
Largo’s Lights of Lake Park Estates turns 30 – Tampa Bay Newspapers
The Lights of Lake Park Estates, a multi-neighborhood display featuring miles of colorful Christmas lights that benefits Suncoast Hospice, has been wowing kids, and adults, since 1993. Read Article
Lights of Lake Park – WFTS ABC Action News
Since 1993, the Lake Park Estates community has generously decorated their neighborhood with Christmas lights to benefit Suncoast Hospice. Watch this ABC Action News with Lake Park residents Pamela Bownan and Amy Maltinos sharing the fun and meaning behind this...
Holiday Toy Donations for Empath Families – WFLA
Empath Health colleagues and community members donated gifts for hospice and home health pediatric patients and for the children of our EPIC clients. These gifts are hand-selected for the children and help bring joy amid challenging times for these children and their...
29th Annual Light of Lake Park – ABC Action News
ABC Action News shared a story about the 29th edition of the Lights of Lake Park event in central Pinellas. This yearly tradition of the neighborhood illuminating their homes raises funds for Suncoast Hospice, a member of Empath Health, through donations along the...
Empath Nurse Receives National Recognition – ABC Action News
Empath Health's Sara Perszyk, RN, BSN, CHPN received the Ilene Beal Courageous Provider Award Dec. 8. This award is a collaboration of the Ilene Beal Charitable Foundation and Courageous Parents Network, designed to acknowledge a pediatric provider who provides...
Veterans’ medical and social needs front and center at new adult day center – The Weekly Challenger
Empath Health has a long history of providing care and support for veterans in our community. In October, the Auer Szabo Empath Adult Day Center opened to focus on the psychosocial and recreational needs of military veterans so that they can stay healthy at home. In...
Chief Mission Medical Affairs Officer FAAHPM Fellow
(Clearwater) Empath Health is pleased to announce Chief Mission Medical Affairs Officer Dr. Neville Sarkari, MD, MBA, FACP, recently earned the designation Fellow of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (FAAHPM). This is the highest honor that can...
A Night of Reflection – FOX 13 News Tampa Bay
Empath Health partnered with a variety of community organizations serving the Black community in St. Petersburg for a special night of healing through a memorial service. This service addressed the grief of losing important members of the community as well as the many...
Partnerships bring focus to community grief and loss – The Weekly Challenger
After suffering the COVID-related death of her father last September, Lisa Brody, an attorney and president of the St. Petersburg Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., sought support from Suncoast Hospice Grief Counseling. When several members of her AKA...
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