Caris Healthcare’s not-for-profit foundation has a new name: Your Life, Our Mission Hospice Foundation. We changed the name to reinforce the Caris Healthcare mission and to avoid confusion with another foundation with a similar name based in Texas. The company, of course, will continue to operate under the name Caris Healthcare and the foundation now […]

NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 26, 2017 For additional information: leadership@carishealthcare.com Caris Healthcare 866-694-4848 Caris Healthcare promotes Karen Mundy to South Carolina Regional Director of Operations. Karen joined Caris in 2011 as Patient Care Manager in the Somerville, Tennessee office, and in less than two years was named Central Regional Director of Clinical Care. […]

The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) Regulatory Committee has invited Caris Healthcare Corporate Compliance Officer The NHPCO Regulatory Committee monitors and interprets federal regulation activity in regards to hospice and palliative care. According to NHPCO, the committee’s activities include: Evaluating and reporting on CMS interpretations of federal regulations. Reviewing and investigating Medicare Administrative […]

Caris Healthcare joined Mars Hill University students, parents, faculty, alumni and friends in celebrating the graduation of the first class of Mars Hill students to receive their bachelor of science in nursing (B.S.N.) degrees from the university’s new Judge-McRae School of Nursing. In her keynote address at the December 16 graduation ceremony, Caris Healthcare Co-Founder […]

Patient Care Manager Becky Sawyers with the Caris Sevierville office recounts the Gatlinburg forest fire: The morning of November 28 started like any other Monday morning for our Caris team in Sevierville, Tennessee. Before our daily morning meeting, we talked about our weekend, sports and the wildfire burning in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. […]

There are two types of disasters: disasters that are prepared for and disasters that are not. Caris Healthcare plans and works meticulously to ensure every crisis lands in the first category. Each month at every Caris Healthcare location the Safety Committee meets to review issues vital to the safety and health of our patients and […]

If, as the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words, then how many words is an infographic worth? The Kaiser Family Foundation and the JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) Network give us a good idea with this compelling one-page infographic on Medicare and End-of-Life Care, published earlier this month. The infographic presents several snapshots […]

By Norman McRae I hope every member of the Caris family enjoyed the 2016 Employee Appreciation and Awards Banquets as much as the members of the Caris leadership team did. For us, these events are a lot more than just an annual thank-you and an evening of fun. They help us stay connected with every […]

What does a spirited game of bingo have to do with Caris’ signature “Three Most Important Things” program? Or the role our Caris caregivers play in the lives of the patients we’re privileged to care for? A lot. Because if it’s important to our patients, if it’s important to their friends and neighbors at the […]

By Paul Saylor President and Chief Operating Officer (Columbia, SC, October 26) The Caris Healthcare Senior Leadership Team journeyed to South Carolina to join Caris employees there for an evening of celebration and fellowship at the annual Employee Appreciation and Awards Banquet. More than an evening of fun, the banquet is one way we show […]