By Paul Saylor President and Chief Operating Officer At our East Region Leadership Development Institute we celebrated nine World Class Award Winners—and the Hospice Care with Grace they provide our patients and their loved ones. World Class Award winners are Caris employees who consistently go above and beyond their job description. I always enjoy attending […]

How do we ensure that 27 Caris Healthcare locations with more than 500 employees across five states remain grounded in our Caris Values and our mission to provide Hospice Care with Grace? Our Annual Awards Banquets, scheduled for October, are one way our management team remains connected and deeply invested in the success of everyone […]

On the Road with Caris: Kansas City Your Life, Our Mission By Norman McRae (Kansas City, MO, September 28) — This week in Kansas City I heard a heartwarming Three Most Important Things  story from Ryan Phillips, Caris Representative. Here’s what Ryan told me: “We recently admitted a patient who had to relocate to a […]

On the Road with Caris: St. Louis Your Life, Our Mission By Norman McRae (St. Louis, MO, September 27) — While visiting with our Caris St. Louis staff I heard the story of how our team cared for a nurse with whom they had worked with at one of our partner nursing centers. Jan Radcliff, […]

On the Road with Caris Your Life, Our Mission By Norman McRae (Knoxville, TN, September 26, 2016) — As CEO, I visit every Caris office, every year. Our President, Paul Saylor, tries to do the same. With 27 locations across five states, this is a significant time commitment each year. But it’s probably the most […]

A man in his early 60s was admitted to the care of the Caris team. He was married with two children—a son and daughter. He voiced one of his main concerns to the Caris team: “What will happen to my family?” He spoke of the sadness of not being there for the many milestones in […]

A Caris Representative is an end-of-life consultant, a patient advocate and a liaison between the medical community, patients, families and the Caris clinical team. Caris Representatives from each of our 27 offices joined together in July to sharpen skills and further develop their knowledge of hospice to better serve local patients, families, the medical community […]

Caris Healthcare is guided by our values in pursuit of a world-class level of quality care. Our values are an acronym of our name: Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Integrity and Service. While integrity is listed third because of how Caris is spelled, it is the most important value in defining who we are and what we […]

Caris Healthcare Medical Directors, Nurse Practitioners and Patient Care Managers earn valuable continuing education credit hours through our Caris Leadership Development Institute. “The purpose of the annual Caris Leadership Development Institute is twofold,” explained Caris Corporate Medical Officer Donald Lighter, MD. “First, we bring our clinicians the most current medical and administrative information regarding hospice […]

Throughout Caris Healthcare’s annual Clinical Leadership Development Institute held in Knoxville, Tennessee, conference attendees had the privilege of hearing from a number of expert clinicians on topics related to hospice and end-of-life care. These speakers provided insight and expertise on how to better provide patients and their families with an excellent hospice experience that reflects […]