PRESS RELEASE

Hendersonville, NC December 16, 2024: Teleios Collaborative Network (TCN) announced its 2024 Teleios University (TU) graduates. Nine individuals successfully completed the year-long program, earning their certificates in leadership excellence.

TU’s Leadership Excellence program is unlike any other. This one-year course is provided through monthly webinars, experiential monthly activities, quarterly challenges and more. It culminates with a capstone project and earns each participant who completes the assignments a certification in leadership excellence.

This year’s graduates include the following leaders in the Hospice and Serious Illness Sector:

• Justin Bryant, National Director of Payer Engagement, Teleios Collaborative Network
• Glenn Golaszewski, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Mountain Valley Hospice
• Sue Ann Hamby, Chief Quality Officer, Four Seasons, the Care You Trust
• Alicia McKinnon, CNA Team Lead, Tillery Compassionate Care
• Kayla Oboyle, Team Leader Support Services, ANCORA Compassionate Care
• Lauren Purdy, Vice President of Employee and Volunteer Solutions, Four Seasons, the Care You Trust
• Robin Rose, Intake/Access Coordinator, Tillery Compassionate Care
• Jeanne Slayton, Growth Team Leader, ANCORA Compassionate Care
• Emily Stamey, Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner, Regional Director Palliative Care (West), Four Seasons, the Care You Trust
• Melissa Williams, Director of Social Services, Hospice of Eastern Idaho

TU professors include Chris Comeaux, President & CEO of TCN, Dr. Millicent Burke-Sinclair, President & CEO of Four Seasons, and Carole Fisher, President of National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI). Each professor brings a wealth of leadership experience and knowledge.  

Chris Comeaux states, “TU just graduated the participants in our fifth Leadership Excellence class and has a full class registered for our sixth year beginning January of 2025.  The growth and learning we have seen from our participants are phenomenal.  Here is some of the feedback we have received regarding the impact of this year-long Leadership Excellence Course: ‘This course has changed me.  I am a different person.  I am more intentional and purposeful around my cause and purpose.  This course has helped me develop the thinking tools that enable me to live my cause and purpose and to stay in the learning mode for the rest of my life.  I can’t recommend this course highly enough.’  “This powerful testimony is exactly why we designed TU, and it is wonderful to see our great vision coming to fruition with each new class of leaders.  Congratulations to our 2024 Teleios University Leadership Excellence graduates,” states Millicent Burke-Sinclair and Chris Comeaux.

TCN is a nonprofit organization that has created a clinically integrated network that shares expert leadership, industry best practices, and resources with its member organizations, allowing community-based, nonprofit hospice and palliative care agencies to continue their work of providing compassionate care for those facing serious illness or the end of life. There are over 3,500 hospice and 4,300 palliative patients in its network. TCN was founded in 2017 by Four Seasons and Carolina Caring and co-founded by AMOREM and Mountain Valley organizations. TCN is currently comprised of fifteen member organizations and serves in North Carolina, South Carolina, Kansas, Virginia, Idaho, Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, Michigan, and Utah.

PRESS RELEASE

Contact: Tina Gentry
www.teleioscn.org
Phone: (843) 441-7098