In this podcast (Episode 1 of 2) Chris interviews Kent Anderson, President / CEO, Ohio’s Hospice.  Kent is one of the most strategic minds in the hospice and serious illness world.  In this riveting interview Kent shares a great framework for nonprofit Boards in the hospice and palliative care space to consider.  There was so much great content this will be a two-part series.  Chris and Kent also discuss the hyper competition coming at hospice and palliative care programs and how Boards can perform their fiduciary duty while at the same time endorsing nimbleness and innovation which is crucial for hospice and palliative care programs to be relevant for where the puck is headed in healthcare.  Join us and pay this podcast forward to your Boards.  It will be well worth 20 minutes of their time.

Quote:
If any one idea about leadership has inspired organizations for thousands of years, it's the capacity to hold a shared picture of the future we seek to create. - Peter Senge

TCNtalks Host:
Chris Comeaux, President / CEO of TCN
www.teleioscn.org

Guest:
Kent Anderson, President / CEO, Ohio's Hospice
www.OhiosHospice.org

Bio:

KENT ANDERSON, FACHE, MBA/MHA

As CEO of Ohio’s Hospice, Kent Anderson leads a compassionate team intensely focused on celebrating life and helping people live their final days on their own terms, with dignity and quality. 

Kent views his most important role as making sure the organization’s compass is pointed true north. Ohio’s Hospice takes an approach to care that deeply values both the spiritual and emotional needs of each patient, as well as the physical ones.

As the son of a retired lieutenant colonel, Kent learned that leadership is about influence — and to lead is to serve, to never come from a place of position or title. He loves the community of engagement and compassion we’ve built within the Ohio’s Hospice organization.

Kent is a healthcare executive with over 20 years of senior leadership/executive experience in home-based multi-site healthcare operations, from start-up operations to daily census management of 2000 plus patients.

Kent proudly served in the United States Army as UH-60 “Blackhawk” combat helicopter pilot, where he graduated as the Honor Graduate of his flight school training class.  He also served as Company Executive Officer, Company Operations Officer and Assistant Operations Officer for the Combat Aviation Battalion.

Away from work, Kent is always up for learning and enjoys everything from courses on wine tasting to spontaneous weekend road trips to off-the-beaten-path destinations. 

Kent is married to his wife, Teri and they have two children, son Joshua, a member of the United States Air Force and daughter Rebecca, a graduate of The Ohio State University. They also have two Sheep-a-doodles, Bexar, and Buckeye. 

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In this podcast Chris interviews Matt Challberg, the founder and CEO of Tallio.  Matt started to publish the “Leadership Letter” in mid-2019, which consists of interviews with some of the top leaders in the home health, hospice, and palliative care industry in the U.S.  Over these past 3 years Matt has harvested valuable leadership insights and he pays them forward in this great discussion with Chris.  Please join us if you are a leader today and join us if you see leadership in hospice and palliative care in your future, which my hope for all of our listeners because even good IDG team members are leaders as they lead the patient and family on the journey of their care plan.  Enjoy!

Our Guest: Matt Challberg, Founder and CEO of Tallio
www.tallio.co

Host: Chris Comeaux, CEO and President of TCN
https://www.teleioscn.org/chriscomeaux

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In this podcast Chris interviews Jason Bradshaw who is an Employee Benefits Consultant with USI Insurance Services.  Chris and Jason discuss the strategy of employee benefits amidst the challenging environment of a tight labor force.   Jason shares the challenges facing employers and what he sees organizations doing to address those challenges as well as some innovative ideas in the market place.  This is a good listen for both leaders and staff because benefits is a key area that it truly takes a village to understand the challenges and potential solutions.  And here is a hint as to the content, communication is key between the organization leaders and staff to navigate these challenges.  Join us for this interesting podcast on the “Benefits of Benefits.”

Guest:  Jason Bradshaw, Employee Benefits Consultant with USI Insurance Services

Quote:  “You need a culture that high-fives small and innovative ideas.”
- Jeff Bezos


Jason Bradshaw’s Profile:

Jason Bradshaw is an Employee Benefits Consultant with USI InsuranceServices, in the Charlotte, NC office and has over 17 years of experiencein the insurance industry.  Jason is responsible for the strategy and oversightof all facets of an employer’s group benefit plans, from seamless implementationof new benefits, to the analysis, review and maintenance of existing plans.    Jason also focuses on full market analysis, innovative cost strategies,employee communications, and lifting day-to-day burdens off the HR team.  
 
Prior to joining USI Insurance Services in 2017, Jason primarily worked for BlueCross Blue Shield of NC where he served as Account Manager and was responsible for the retention, servicing and strategy for existing clients and brokers.

www.usi.com

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In this podcast Chris interviews Andy Baxter, the founder of the Cunniff-Dixon Foundation.  The Cunniff-Dixon Foundation was founded out of Andy’s endeavor to make a difference after having experienced one of life’s greatest challenges.  His wife Carley died after a three-year battle with breast cancer.  Reflecting on that experience as he talked to others Andy realized his wife’s experience of care and passing peacefully at home was a unique one thankfully due to the oncologist they were blessed with Dr. Peter Dixon.  Hence the Dixon in the Cunniff-Dixon Foundation name.  

Andy shares that story and the focus and mission of the foundation including some of their more recent work in the area of Advanced Directives with their co-developed tool “Planning my Way.”  Andy also pays forward to hospice and palliative care professionals what he learned during his wife’s illness as well the learning from his foundation’s great work in the hospice and palliative care space.  

Andy has great wisdom to share so tune in because there are some great pearls in this episode of “TCNtalks.” Join us. 

Guest: Andy Baxter

Host: Chris Comeaux, President & CEO of Teleios Collaborative Network

Andy Baxter Bio:

Matthew A. (Andy) Baxter was born in New York City in 1942, and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. After graduating from Yale University and the Amos Tuck School of Business, he had a career in finance in New York. In 2005, his wife Carley Cunniff died from breast cancer. Baxter created the Cunniff-Dixon Foundation, honoring his late wife and Dr. Peter Dixon, the physician who had guided Andy and Carley through the last stages of her life.

The mission of Cunniff-Dixon is to enrich the physician-patient relationship at the end of life, to educate individual physicians and inspire them to provide the kind of care at the end of life that we all wish for ourselves and our loved ones. 

To that end, the foundation has sponsored continuing medical education symposiums on end-of-life care, has co-sponsored with The American College of Surgeons a curriculum on end-of-life care for surgical residents, and has sponsored the Hastings Cunniff-Dixon Physician awards. Since 2007, these awards have been given to 39 physicians from across the United States. The awards are now granted every other year, with 3 awards to early career physicians, and 1 each to a mid-career physician and a senior clinician. The recipients of these awards, together with the selection committee that determines the recipients, collectively represent the best and the brightest of palliative care leadership in this country, and perhaps the world.

Since 2018, the Foundation has been working on its contribution to advance care planning. Planning My Way ….A Guide for Future Health Care Decisions is an educational resource designed to help patients and patient families with advance care planning.

Cunniff-Dixon Foundation 
www.cunniffdixon.org

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In this podcast guest host, Janelle McCallum, interviews TCN’s Dr. John Morris, Pulmonologist & Serious Illness physician about the most important things to know about COVID-19 today.

By popular request, he is now available to a wider audience as he brings data and wise clinical discernment to the complicated topics regarding COVID and vaccinations.  His background in critical care and palliative care makes him a perfect translator to interpret and help guide us during these confusing times.

Guest Host: Janelle McCallum
www.teleioscn.org/janellemccallum

Guest: John Morris, MD
www.teleioscn.org/johnmorris

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In this podcast, Chris interviews Dr. Rebecca Heiss, PhD, and CEO/Founder of icueity, LLC.  Rebecca is a stress physiologist and uses her background in science to create a space for women to become the leaders they were meant to be and to realize and live their purposes beyond the fear, stress, and anxiety that tends to take them off course.  In this podcast, Chris discusses with Rebecca her program “the Fearless Accelerator.”  While this might seem to apply to only women who have leadership positions today in the hospice and palliative care space you will quickly see the wisdom Rebecca has to share applies to women working throughout hospice, palliative care, serious illness space, and every facet of life.  

 Join us - this podcast will inspire you, and also make you want to go and learn more about the wisdom Rebecca is sharing.  For the men in our listening audience while you might think you can skip this one, if you have a woman in your life, it is informative, and also the wisdom applies to you as well.  You will enjoy this one so please join us. 

TCNtalks Host:  Chris Comeaux, MLAS, CPAPresident / CEO of Teleios Collaborative Network.

Guest: Dr Rebecca Heiss, CEO / Founder icueity, LLC.  Keynote Speaker & Author

www.rebeccaheiss.com

TheFearlessTheory.com/FearlessAccelerator

www.icueity.com

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Guest:

Keith Taylor, the founder of strengthafterstroke.com

In this podcast Chris interviews Keith Taylor.  Keith was a thriving businessman and then had a huge curveball thrown his way as he had a stroke.  Keith was struggling during that time with his cause and purpose because the aftereffects of the stroke upended his life and his career.  Now several years later Keith has turned that challenge into a new purpose helping people who have had strokes recover via his unique BASE program and via Keith’s coaching.  Chris invited Keith because as hospice and palliative care professionals we often don’t get to hear the voice of the patient, their story, and their perspective.  Keith’s story is an inspiring one and also an informative one to many of us who dedicate so much of our time and talent to caring for others.  Give this a listen as it will be informative and also inspirational.  Join us. 

BASE = Belief Attitude Strength Energy 

Wisdom Quote:

Too many hospices take for granted and assume that they are providing excellent care.  However, the quality, constancy, and perceived value is completely determined by the individuals performing the visits.  Most patients will not complain even if they have had a less than ideal experience. – Andrew Reed

www.strengthafterstroke.com

Links to references:

https://www.facebook.com/strengthafterstroke/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9s3-mzBOgZ-sxHio442ksg

https://www.instagram.com/strengthafterstroke/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/strengthafterstroke/

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In this podcast Chris interviews Dr. Janet Bull whom he  has worked with throughout much of his career at Four Seasons.  In this podcast Dr. Bull reviews innovations, she is most proud of and what she learned from them throughout her illustrious career in hospice and palliative care.  Dr. Bull also shares a creative thinking framework:  Ideation, Inspiration, and Implementation which all of us can use.   Finally,  Dr. Bull takes our listeners through a visualization exercise with a look towards the future.  You will enjoy this one so please join us. 

Dr Janet Bull's Bio

Janet Bull, MD, MBA, FAAHPM is the Chief Medical Officer Emerita/Chief Innovations Officer at Four Seasons Compassion for Life and holds a consultant assistant professorship at Duke University Medical Center. She is a Fellow of the AAHPM, board certified in hospice and palliative medicine and holds a hospice medical director certification.  Janet has authored or coauthored several papers on  palliative care operations, telehealth, billing issues, and quality data reporting. She helped develop the QDACT (Quality Data Assessment Collection Tool), co-directed the Global Palliative Care Quality Alliance, and is on the board of the Palliative Care Quality Collaborative. She directs the research department at Four Seasons and has served as the Principal Investigator on over 45 clinical trials in hospice and palliative medicine. She is Program Director of the Palliative Care Immersion Course and a principal of Four Seasons Consulting Group, which offers consulting services in hospice, palliative care, and research.  Janet was the recipient of the Sharon O. Dixon Award in 2007, the Cuniff-Dixon Hastings Award in 2012, and the Josephino Magno Distinguished Physician Award in 2013. In 2014, she was recognized as one of the Top 30 Visionaries in the Field award by the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) and served as Principal Investigator on the 2014-17 Center of Medicare Innovations Grant demonstrating the value of palliative care.  She was President of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) in 2017 and was as a core team member on the development of the Alternative Payment Model for Serious Illness Care for AAHPM..  

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In this podcast Chris interviews Meridith Elliott Powell who is an internationally known business strategist, keynote speaker, and award-winning author with expertise in business growth, sales, and leadership strategies.  She has just released her new book Thrive:  Strategies to Turn Uncertainty to Competitive Advantage.  In this podcast Chris discusses Meridith’s new book and how this book applies to hospice and palliative care leaders and staff not just at the organization level but at the individual level as well.  There is one thing certain as we move forward, the future is uncertain but that does not have to be a negative and Meridith shares how history results in opportunity and innovation even amidst adversity and maybe even because of it.  Meridith shares great wisdom from her many years of coaching, Leaders and staff alike will enjoy the pearls.

www.meridithelliottpowell.com
www.valuespeaker.com

Guest: Meridith Elliott Powell
Host: Chris Comeaux

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In this podcast Chris interviews Patrice "Patti" Moore, APRN, MSN President and Founder of The Watershed Group.  This is a podcast all hospice leaders and staff would benefit from listening to.  Patti is the bridge between the Pioneer Generation of leaders who helped lead hospice from its infancy in the 1980’s into the present day leaders like Chris and others.  From this unique perspective Patti answers this one question Chris asks her, “Patti imagine a locker room talk between 5 Pioneers of hospice and the present day leaders in hospice and palliative care and the new up and coming leaders, what wisdom would those pioneers have to share?”  Patti’s choice of 5 pioneers and her very informed answer is packed with pearls and is definitely worth the listen because sometimes you have to look back to go forward.  Join us, this will be an episode you don’t want to miss.

Host: Chris Comeaux, President and CEO of Teleios Collaborative Network
Guest: Patrice "Patti" Moore APRN, MSN President and Founder | The Watershed Group

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