Home Care & Hospice Hall of Fame

	Mother Teresa Self-described home care and hospice nurse, founder of the Missionaries of Charity
	Senator Frank E. Moss Author of the Medicare and Medicaid home care benefits, author of the first Medicare hospice legislation, counsel to NAHC, chairman of the Foundation for Hospice and Homecare, and first chairman of the board of the Caring Institute
	Hon. Elisabeth Kübler-Ros Author of the seminal book On Death and Dying
	Senator Claude Pepper House sponsor of the Medicare home care benefit and the Medicare hospice benefit
	Ms. Lillian D. Wald Founder of the Henry Street Settlement, which became the Visiting Nurse Service of New York; often referred to as the “Mother of Home Care”
	William J. Simione, Jr., C.P.A. Partner, Simione Consultants, founding chairman of the Home Care and Hospice Financial Managers Association, and founding chairman of the Home Care and Hospice PAC
	Senator Susan Collins The member of Congress who introduced and brought about the enactment of more home care legislation than anyone except Claude Pepper and Frank E. Moss
	Dr. Arthur S. Flemming Secretary of Health Education and Welfare under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, appointed Commissioner of Aging by President Richard M. Nixon and chairman of the board of SpeakOut USA, which organized bus trips across the United States between 1993 and 1997
	Ms. Mary S. Suther One of the founders of NAHC, three-term chairman of the board and its predecessor, the National Association of Home Health Agencies, and of the Visiting Nurses Association of America
	Senator Edward M. Kennedy Co-sponsor of Medicare and Medicaid home care benefits, sponsor of the Medicare hospice benefit, and author of the CLASS Act
	Ms. Helen Hayes Actress, home care activist, spokeswoman for NAHC, and narrator of the film “No Place Like Home”
	Senator Robert J. Dole Senate majority leader, co-chair of the Caring Institute, author of the Americans with Disabilities Act, sponsor of the Medicare hospice benefit and counsel to NAHC
	Dr. Ruth C. Constant Chairman of NAHC, twice chairman of the Texas Association for Home Care, chairman of the Foundation for Hospice and Homecare, and head of the Home Healthcare Nurses Association
	Hon. Hugh Downs Anchor of ABC News “20/20” and host of NBC’s “Today Show” and “Tonight Show,” chairman of PBS’s first program on aging, and advocate for hospice and home care
	Dr. Virginia Henderson Dean of Yale School of Nursing, author of the most widely accepted text on nursing, and advocate of home care and hospice
	Mr. Don Wortley Founding chairman of NAHC, first treasurer of NAHC, and president of the Foundation for Hospice and Homecare
	Hon. Rosalynn Carter Former first lady of the United States and founder of the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregiving
	Hon. Robert Butler, M.D. First director of the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health, author of Why Survive? Being Old in America, founder of the Department of Geriatrics at the Mount Sinai Medical Center, and CEO of the International Longevity Center
	Ms. Michele A. Quirolo Chairman and vice-chairman of NAHC, chairman of NAHC’s government affairs committee for 8 years
	Senator John Breaux Chairman of the Senate Special Committee on Aging and co-chair of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare.
	Dame Cicely Saunders Head of St. Christopher’s Hospice in London and godmother of the modern hospice movement
	Ms. Andrea L. Devoti Chairman and secretary of NAHC and president of the Pennsylvania Association for Home Care
	Ms. Elaine D. Stephens Chairman and secretary of NAHC and chairman of the Home Healthcare Nurses Association
	Mr. Mike Vance Dean of Disney University and author of Think Out of the Box
	Dr. Margaret Cushman Chairman and secretary of NAHC and first dean of Home Care University
	Mr. Gary M. Bremer Director and treasurer of NAHC, co-founder of the Foundation for Medically Fragile Children, member of the board for the Caring Institute and the Foundation for Hospice and Homecare
	Ms. Helen Heyrman Chairman, the Forum of State Associations and executive director, the Illinois Home Care Association
	Mr. Ronald A. Malone NAHC board member, CEO and later chairman of Gentiva Health Services who helped unify the home care industry
	Maggie Kuhn Founder of the Gray Panthers, an organization that was instrumental in nursing home reform, the prohibition of forced retirement, and fighting health care fraud
	President William J. Clinton Pushed for expansion of the Medicare home health care benefit and helped defeat home health copays in 1997
	Mr. J. Mark Baiada Founder of BAYADA Home Health Care and an advocate for compassionate, excellent and reliable home health care for people of all ages
	Ms. Ruth Castellano Vice president of BJC Home Care Services and director of Christian Hospital Home Health Care
	Mr. Rod Windley Founder of Healthfield, Chairman of Gentiva Health Services, member of the NAHC Board, president of the Georgia Association for Home Health Care, and chairman of the Fragile Kids Foundation
	Ms. Jeannee Parker Martin President and co-owner of The Corridor Group, Corridor International, and Corridor Media, board member of NAHC, the National Hospice Foundation, and the National Hospice Working Group
	Honorable Tarky Lombardi New York State senator who sponsored the Nursing Home Without Walls program
	Ms. Mary Labyak Founder of Suncoast Hospice, chair of the National Hospice Foundation board of trustees, and co-chair of the National Center for Care at the End of Life
	Honorable Dirk Kempthorne U.S. secretary of the interior, U.S. senator from Idaho, 30th governor of the state, and chairman of the National Governors Association where he led efforts to rebalance Medicaid expenditures toward greater use of home care
	Ms. Katheen Dodd Founder and CEO of The Corridor Group, member of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization’s Technical Advisory Commission, and regional representative on the NAHC board