2020 Community Report: Our Mission of Compassion

As the pandemic surged and summer approached, several years of planning culminated in a national announcement on June 1, 2020. Community Hospice & Palliative Care’s board of directors announced the formation of a new board and parent organization, Alivia Care, Inc., to help more people in more places to live better with advanced illness. The Alivia Care, Inc., board selected current Community Hospice & Palliative Care President and Chief Executive Officer Susan Ponder-Stansel as their president and chief executive officer. The structure of Alivia Care was designed to support additional programs and services beyond hospice care, thereby taking over the groundwork laid by Community Hospice & Palliative Care to help people live better earlier in their disease progression. The future structure of Alivia Care, Inc., includes all- inclusive, home health, hospice, and palliative care.

Phillip Ward, chief operating officer of Community Hospice & Palliative Care, was selected by the board as the new president and chief executive officer of Community Hospice & Palliative Care. Ward began his career with Community Hospice & Palliative Care in 1992 and has a dual responsibility as the chief operating officer of Alivia Care, Inc.

At the same time Alivia Care, Inc., was founded, so was Alivia Care of Georgia. This subsidiary organization was created to partner with community-based hospice providers in Georgia to create and strengthen care solutions through vision, leadership, investment, and advocacy. And so the mission of compassion continues to expand to care for more people in more places. Shortly thereafter, affiliation discussions began with Hospice of the Golden Isles in Brunswick, Georgia, and Hospice Satilla in Waycross, Georgia, to support their quality-driven, community-based, non-profit missions.

L E AD I NG T H E WA Y With more than three decades of hospice experience, Philip Ward is ready for his new role.

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