How NPHI Brings Nonprofit Hospices Together to Educate, Innovate, and Benefit our WNC Community

Our host, Dr. Millicent Burke-Sinclair, and National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation President Carole Fisher discuss how NPHI helps foster innovation and education for nonprofit hospices.Carole Fisher serves as President of the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI), one of the nation's largest membership organizations focused on advanced illness care. Utilizing her previous experiences and deep expertise with not-for-profit, community-based hospice and palliative healthcare, she is charged with leading a wide range of activities for the membership organization. With an emphasis on developing strategic partnerships, meaningful collaborations, and transformational innovations, Carole helps support the nation's most notable and distinguished end-of-life healthcare organizations. As a seasoned C-suite advisor, innovator, and public policy advocate, for the past 35 years, she has successfully led and transformed not-for-profit and mission-driven healthcare operations. Carole has significant experience in growing and transforming companies, developing people, and preparing organizations for navigating the unforeseen and unanticipated. She has a background in increasing market share, contracting with payers, building specialty provider networks, developing and integrating cutting-edge technology, facilitating M&A mid-size transactions, and is well respected for her ability to merge cultures and teams. She brings this experience to her position at NPHI in addition to her role as a Senior Advisor to Healthsperien. Carole is the former President and CEO of Nathan Adelson Hospice. In a fiercely competitive market, she positioned the organization as a nationally known industry leader respected for its clinical advancements and innovations. Under her leadership, Nathan Adelson Hospice was recognized for eight years by Modern Healthcare Magazine as one of the 100 Best Places to Work in the United States.If you live in Western North Carolina and are in need of Hospice or Palliative Care, please call Four Seasons, The Care You Trust toll free at 866.466.9734 or visit us online at FourSeasonsCare.org. Thank you for listening!