TCN Talks

Are you interested in the latest developments in hospice care? Join us and our insightful guest Mark Cohen as we explore May 2023's top news stories in the healthcare industry, focusing on hospice providers, labor and employment, physician and nursing, end of life care, palliative care, and the hospice business. Mark shares his valuable experience in corporate philanthropy and its impact on h...

In this podcast, Chris interviews Janelle McCallum, Chief Clinical Operations Officer with TCN and Alan Seivers, Partner with B2B CFO®.  Years ago, there was a great TV series called “Diagnosis Murder” with Dick Van Dyke where he, as a super sleuth, could solve any challenge, riddle, and murder.   Using this as a metaphor, Chris discusses with Janelle and Alan how they use their skill set to diagn...

In this podcast, Chris interviews Quint Studer, Co-Founder of Healthcare Plus Solutions Group and one of Chris’ long-time and favorite mentors. Quint and Chris discuss many areas, but they start off with the recent Models of Care Insight Study that Healthcare Plus Solutions Group conducted on the workforce and staffing challenges that all of healthcare is facing.  Here is a link to the outcomes of...

In this podcast, Chris continues the monthly program that will be airing throughout 2023.  Mark Cohen is the Editor & Publisher of Hospice News Today, an essential news and issues management briefing published 365 days a year for hospice leaders.  He also is Principal of his strategic communications firm, Cohen-Fyfe Communications.  Mark spends hours each day reviewing and abstracting articles...

In this podcast, Chris interviews Dr. Katy Lanz, Founder and Principal of TopSight Partners, a boutique advisory innovation partner, focusing on care at home.  Dr. Lanz started out her career as a hospice nurse and helped build one of North Carolina’s first palliative care programs in the early 2000s.   She later became the Chief Clinical Officer of Aspire, and led through partnerships with over 2...

In this podcast, Chris interviews Mary Mihalyo, CEO & Co-founder of Delta Care RX.  Mary has a rich history of teaching and helping to improve the care delivery of the hospice and palliative care segment via pharmacotherapy management, options and expertise.   Mary through her expertise and then later through helping to co-found Delta Care RX has helped hospice and palliative care organization...

In this podcast, Chris continues the monthly program that will be airing throughout 2023.  Mark Cohen is the Editor & Publisher of Hospice News Today, an essential news and issues management briefing published 365 days a year for hospice leaders. He also is Principal of his strategic communications firm, Cohen-Fyfe Communications.  Mark spends hours each day reviewing and abstracting articles...

In this podcast, Chris interviews Jay Cushman, President and Founder of HealthPivots, a healthcare analytics provider. Jay is trained as a physicist but has been looking at data in the hospice and palliative care segment going back to the 1990’s.  In this podcast, Jay shares macro trends he sees in the data going back over these many years taking us to present day.  Then Jay shares what he sees wh...

In this podcast, Chris interviews Peter Benjamin, Partner with The Huntington Consulting Group.  The themes from this podcast are Movement, Market, and Metamorphosis. Peter has a rich history in hospice having worked for the first for-profit hospice in the US and has been consulting in the hospice segment since 1996.  Chris asks Peter to reflect back and name two or three things that have gotten u...

In this podcast, Chris continues the monthly program that will be airing throughout 2023.  Mark Cohen is the Editor & Publisher of Hospice News Today, an essential news and issues management briefing published 365 days a year for hospice leaders. He is also the Principal of his strategic communications firm, Cohen-Fyfe Communications.  Mark spends hours each day reviewing and abstracting artic...

In this podcast, Chris interviews Marisette Hasan, CEO with Lifesprings Consulting Group.  In honor of Black History month, Chris and Marisette start with why it is important for all Americans and hospice and palliative care team members to know and reflect upon Black History.  Marisette then shares some of her heroes from Black History.  What she shared was inspiring! Chris and Marisette discusse...

This month we are starting a monthly Top News program that will air throughout 2023.  Mark Cohen is the Editor & Publisher of Hospice News Today, an essential news and issues management briefing published 365 days a year for hospice leaders. He also is Principal of his strategic communications firm, Cohen-Fyfe Communications.   Mark spends hours each day reviewing and abstracting articles that...

In this podcast, Chris interviews Sheila Burke, Senior Public Policy Advisor at Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, and Research Faculty / Adjunct Lecturer at Harvard University . Chris and Sheila discuss the staffing challenge and whether it is going to get better or worse during 2023.  Sheila and Chris discuss a research article from a colleague of Sheila’s, Peter Buerhaus, Ph. D.,...

In this podcast, our first of 2023, Chris interviews Tom Koutsoumpas, President and CEO of Capital Caring Health & CEO of the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI) and Carole Fisher, President of the NPHI.   Recently, ProPublica and The New Yorker published an article by Ava Kofman titled, “How Hospice Became a For-Profit Hustle.”  This article put hospice in the ne...

In this podcast, Chris reviews the TCN Talks podcasts from over 2023.  He also shares a great piece of wisdom Teleios and many of it’s members have practiced each year, “One Word.”  This is a much more powerful way to set the tone and intention for your upcoming year and is much more useful than a New Year’s Resolution which seem to wane about 30 days into the New Year.  TCN just released a relate...

In this podcast, Chris interviews Dr. Cameron Muir, MD, FAAHPM, Chief Innovation Officer for the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation & Principal and Founder, Cameron Muir Consulting, LLC.  Chris and Dr. Muir talk about why hospices should innovate and how necessary it is today given the changes in the payer landscape and broader healthcare landscape. Dr. Muir shares two...

In this podcast, Chris Comeaux interviews Tina Gentry, Chief Administrative and Advancement Officer at Teleios Collaborative Network.  As we approach the end of the year this is a great time to talk about philanthropy, but not just for end-of-year purposes.  On TCNtalks, we have had several shows this past year focused on the challenges facing the hospice segment.  Given the many challenges, hospi...

In this podcast, Chris interviews Michelle Webb, Clinical Assistant Professor of Nursing, Certified Cultural Intelligence Facilitator, and Unconscious Bias Coach for Duke University School of Nursing.   Chris and Michelle talk about the reality of the staffing crisis and how it is not going to improve.  They discuss, given this reality and challenge, what it will require of leaders: a polarity of...

In this podcast, Chris interviews Meg Pekarske, Partner with Husch Blackwell. Meg and Chris discuss a guide to Hospice Networks that Husch Blackwell put together to help guide the thinking of hospice leaders and their Boards. Meg shares some key need to know regarding why hospices should be thinking about some type of model given the challenges heading our way in the hospice and palliative care fi...

In this podcast, Chris interviews Gloria Brooks, founder of G. Brooks & Associates LLC.  Gloria and Chris discuss some of the fascinating research Gloria has done regarding hospice networks and combinations in the nonprofit hospice space.  Gloria shares 5 key competencies that she has found in her research that are critical for networks or combinations to be successful.   This is a great liste...

In this podcast, Chris interviews Dr. Will Faber. Dr. Faber is a Primary Care Physician, full-time healthcare business consultant, and a TCN Board member.  As healthcare accelerates towards value-based care and reimbursement, hospice and palliative care organizations are well-positioned to be part of the solution to where the puck is going.  However, to be optimally positioned, we must understand...

In this podcast, Chris interviews Lara McKinnis, MS, MT-BC, Music Psychotherapist and Professional Development Specialist for TCN about the alarming trend of staff exhibiting the effects of trauma due to the last two years of overwhelm largely impacted by COVID, at work and at home.  In Spring 2021, TCN launched TCNtalks with a series of podcasts related to mental health and wellbeing tools for le...

In this podcast, Chris interviews Andrew Molosky and Chuck Lee regarding their recent merger of Chapters Health System and Cornerstone Hospice.  Andrew is the President and CEO of Chapters Health System & Chuck Lee is the Chief Administrative Officer and President of Hospice Operations and Board Chair of all Hospice Affiliates for Chapters Health System.  Andrew’s and Chuck’s organizations com...

In this podcast, Chris interviews Carole Fisher.  Carole is the President of the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI).  These are challenging times for community-owned, mission-driven nonprofit hospice and palliative care organizations, and there are more storm clouds gathering.  Carole shares from her unique perspective the elements of this perfect storm that we are a...

In this podcast, Chris interviews Christopher Morrissette.  Christopher is the COO of Serious Illness Care and Chief Strategy Officer for Teleios Collaborative Network.  This is a great listen to understand the challenges facing our country due to the rising costs of healthcare and why palliative care and serious illness care is part of the solution.  Christopher lays out how innovation, technolog...