PORTSMOUTH – Visiting Nurse Home & Hospice has appointed Anita Soares as its new director of hospice and palliative care.
Soares brings many years’ experience managing hospice and palliative care programs to her new role at the nonprofit, independent home health care and hospice agency. The agency was formerly known as Visiting Nurse Services of Newport and Bristol Counties.
Starting in 2005, Soares had been employed by Beacon Hospice as a clinical supervisor, then director and then regional director for Beacon. After a brief time with Kindred Hospice starting in 2016, Soares was recruited to be the leader of Visiting Nurse Home & Hospice’s program.
Soares’ goals for the hospice and palliative program at Visiting Nurse Home & Hospice are twofold: She plans to maintain the high quality of hospice and palliative care, and plans to increase the census of patients in the programs through expanding regionally, transitioning a solid home care experience to a continuum of palliative and hospice care within the same agency, and marketing more effectively to referral sources.
Soares is a long-term resident of Swansea, where she raised two now-grown children and lives with her husband, Mark. She is a garden enthusiast and loves to travel.
Rob Borkowski is a PBN staff writer. Email him at Borkowski@PBN.com.
