TCN Talks

In this podcast, Chris interviews Janelle McCallum, Chief Clinical Operations Officer of TCN to discuss a very thought-provoking subject:    What do Love & Strategy have to do with CAHPS scores?  After many trials and errors trying to figure out why CAHPS scores did not seem to reflect what we often have heard about our “great hospice care,” Janelle McCallum created a framework called “The 5 G...

In this podcast, Chris interviews Jeremy Powell.  Jeremy is the founder and CEO of Acclivity Health which is one of the few companies applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning in the hospice and palliative care space.   Jeremy shares ways his company is working to help improve quality as well as utilizing technology and data to get patients the right care at the right place at the...

In this podcast, Chris interviews Jack Neil.  He is an anesthesiologist, but his real passion is computer programing.  Jack has an interesting perspective on artificial intelligence (AI), so much so Jack’s company he founded, Hank AI, has a tag line “Help the Humans.”  Jack defines what is Artificial Intelligence and then shares where he sees AI being applied in healthcare over the next five years...

Do your Hospice and Palliative Care Boards know what they need to know?  Today?  What about the tomorrow that is quickly headed our way? In this podcast, Chris delivers a monologue about what board members of nonprofit hospice and palliative care programs need to know over the next 3 to 5 years for service on their local community hospice board.   Chris unpacks these problem areas: The External Fo...

In this podcast, Chris interviews Marisette Hasan, President & CEO of The Carolinas Center for Hospice and End of Life Care (TCC).  In honor of Black History month, Chris discusses with Marisette what hospice and palliative care organizations short term and long term can do to focus their organization’s journey for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusivity (EDI). Marisette shares great ideas about ho...

In this podcast, Chris interviews Mark Cohen. Mark is the Publisher & Editor of Hospice News Today and a Principal with Cohen-Fyfe Communications. Mark shares how his background in journalism even having worked in the White House on communications and briefings as well as his experience in marketing and messaging in hospice over 20+ years, has positioned him to create the Hospice News Today. I...

In this podcast, Chris hosts one of his greatest mentors, Quint Studer.  Quint’s talents and gifts have helped to shape healthcare for over 40 years across the US and even the world.   Chris starts the podcast thanking Quint and wondering aloud how many organizations that have won Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to Work can trace the roots of their journey of great cultures back to Quint and his w...

In this podcast (Episode 2 of 2) Chris continues his interview with 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 2-part series Kent shares a great framework for nonprofit Boards in the hospice and palliative care space to consider.  In this episode Chris asks Kent to elaborate how Boards can do tw...

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...

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 Ch...

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. ...

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 ca...

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 palliat...

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 progr...

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 challeng...

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...

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 appli...

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 perspect...

In this podcast Chris interviews Dawn F. Landry who recently wrote about her “care coaching” (her self-defined term about caregiving) journey in her first book ARMORED.  Dawn and Chris graduated high school together 33 years ago in rural, south Louisiana.  In this interview Dawn shares her unique wisdom and experience having been a Corporate Executive Coach and having gone through several health b...

In this podcast Chris interviews Christine Lau RN, LCSW, APHSW-C.  They talk about a frequent challenge hospice and palliative care staff face now that our industry is 40+ years old which is – “We were friends and now I am their leader.”  Christine shares from her experience through almost 20 years of going from staff level positions in multiple disciplines and growing into leadership positions ho...

In this episode of TCN Talks, Lara McKinnis brings together her training in psychotherapy, music therapy, and somatic therapy in a beautiful way.  Chris and Lara discuss what is going on with our hospice and palliative care team members in terms of trauma.  Lara unpacks that we all have these “shadow” parts of us that are underlying and further that we are indoctrinated not to digest and process t...

In this podcast Chris interviews Dr. Rohini Kanniganti furthering two prior podcasts where we discussed what is going on with our healthcare workers out of care and concern for them dealing with the strains the pandemic has brought on.  Dr. Kanniganti brings her wisdom, presence, and thoughts around compassion, self-compassion, and mindfulness.  Dr. Kanniganti believes these three states of being...

In this podcast Chris interviews Dr. Elizabeth Burpee, a Hospice and Palliative Medicine who also works in Research with Four Seasons.  We continue to see staff stressed and some even describing what they are experiencing in hospice and palliative care as burnout.  Dr. Burpee was already researching prior to COVID via Project Echo what is occurring in the hospice and palliative care field and thro...

In this podcast Chris Comeaux interviews Dr. John Morris, Pulmonologist and Hospice & Palliative Care physician about the COVID vaccine.  Dr. Morris has conducted several informational webinars for hospice and palliative staff throughout the TCN network.  Here is a common comment we have heard after those webinars, “Staff was concerned and not planning on getting the vaccine and after the webi...

In our initial TCN Talks podcast Chris interviews John Locke.  John is with DHG where he heads up their executive coaching program.  John has unique experience and training in the area of applying learning from how high performance athletes take care of themselves to perform at a higher level.  Surprisingly there is simple applicable wisdom that hospice, palliative care, and serious illness profes...