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Ron LaSalle, RN BSN MBA CHPCA -- President/CEO
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Ron LaSalle is a healthcare professional with over 20 years of proven management leadership abilities with strengths
in finance, marketing, strategic planning, team development, regulatory compliance and physician relations.
Known as a compassionate leader in the hospice industry, Ron started his career with hospice as a Registered Nurse
and has since held numerous positions. He has worked for hospice programs in New York , Wisconsin and North Carolina. He currently serves as a CEO for a Hospice and Palliative
Care program in North Carolina. To date, he has provided specialized assistance to scores of hospice programs nationwide. While directing a hospice in Wisconsin, he served
on the state hospice organization board of directors. He presently serves on numerous healthcare advisory
committees.
Ron has developed many cutting edge programs and techniques and has provided many educational opportunities
to hospice personnel. He is distinguished from other consultants in that he has extensive hospice experience and limits
his services to hospice programs. Ron is passionate about hospice care and has invested much time in research and development
of hospice specific services to empower agencies to become more effective in their mission.
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Margaret K. (Meg) Brady is Professor of English at the University
of Utah, where she has taught courses in oral history, the life story, and folklore for over 30 years and has been honored
with several prestigious teaching awards. She is also the founding Director of YourStory: Record and Remember, a program to record the life stories of all Utahns,
especially those in hospice care. Besides training her own university students in the art of eliciting life stories, Dr. Brady
has been actively involved in training hundreds of hospice staff and volunteers in the strategies of recording life stories,life
reviews, and ethical wills. A graduate of Naropa University’s Contemplative End-of-Life Care program, Brady’s
work with hospice patients and cancer survivors provides wonderful audio material that enriches both workshops and speaking
engagements with humor and insight. She has been an inspirational featured presenter at national conferences and at regional
meetings of hospice and palliative care associations.
Meg’s
workshop topics include: Creating and Implementing Life Story Recording Programs; Engaging and Enriching Volunteer Opportunities;
The Life Story: A Marketing Bonanza; Ethical or Spiritual Wills: Every Hospice Patient’s Right. Speaking engagement
topics are developed with your particular needs in mind. You may reach Meg at: meg.brady@utah.edu or by phone (801) 541-5374.
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Rachel
Schmidt’s company Healthcare Marketing & Strategies mission is to
improve access to quality hospice care through public education, professional training and consumer advocacy. She conducts workshops for health care professionals and consumer groups on the benefits of hospice and
palliative care.
With
a team of healthcare professionals the firm offers road maps for hospice providers to effectively hone their marketing strategies
and educate their surrounding communities on the benefits of hospice care.
Rachel works to be an independent voice
for hospice growth and understanding by increasing professional knowledge and raising public awareness so that hospice is
readily accessible for Americans of all ages.
Prior
to entering the hospice arena, Rachel worked for Bristol-Myers Squibb for 24 years in sales and marketing. Rachel is a graduate of Hunter College, New York City with a bachelor’s
degree in Health Education.
If your needs include marketing/public relations ideas or staff development training that addresses the business side
of hospice contact Rachel at rachel.schmidt@comcast.net or by phone at (804) 360-7761.
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Carol
Anne Slater MA, DMS, RGN, DOH
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Carol Anne has 15
years’ experience at board level in the hospice sector, as an executive director and Chief Executive. She has managed significant change management programmes and has led performance management and improvement
programmes for England’s health authorities.
Carol Anne started
her career as a nurse and was awarded a silver medal for clinical services. She
developed her role in corporate healthcare management, earning the reputation for the successful reconfiguration of a large
Hospice; taking it from a failing organisation to a national model of good practice.
She was awarded the
fellowship from the UK Government to research the hospice needs of people with HIV infection and to define a model of good
practice suitable for the UK. The research was carried out in the UK, Europe
and the USA. This resulted in the development of “Integrated care pathways
for patients with HIV infection based on individual needs assessment” It was adopted as a model of good practice for
the UK.
She is an energetic
individual, an innovator and lateral thinker. She is recognised for her visionary
solutions and developing services in complex markets. She is a strategic thinker
who possesses excellent communication skills with a persuasive open management style.
More recently she as delivered on challenging fundraising strategies and corporate donor support for the Hospice sector
as an independent Business Consultant.
Carol Anne has gained
a number of clinical and professional qualifications; including a graduate of Greenwich University, London with a master’s
degree in strategic business studies and marketing.
Her clinical knowledge
and professional experience puts her in a powerful position to lead strategic fundraising and business development programmes
on an international platform for the hospice sector. You may contact Carol Anne at: caroloanne.slater1@tiscali.co.uk
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