Former HPH Hospice workers scale back whistleblower lawsuit

By Lisa Buie, Times Staff Writer Thursday, February 2, 2012 Plaintiffs in a federal whistleblower lawsuit alleging hospices and other health care providers use questionable practices to bilk Medicare have significantly scaled back their complaint. Attorneys for Heather Jo Numbers and Gregory Scott Davis, two former employees of HPH Hospice, voluntarily dropped as defendants Gulfside Regional ...

Flagler County business briefs

King to serve on hospital board JoAnne King has been selected to serve as vice president of ancillary services for Florida Hospital Flagler. King is currently administrative director for Florida Hospital HospiceCare, the area's only faith-based, not-for-profit hospice organization...

Treasure Coast Hospice program helps keep pets, owners together

MARTIN COUNTY — As a retired psychologist, hospice patient John Joyce understands intellectually how a pet dog can enliven a home.

Hospice CEO paid $1.3M in final year

DAYTON — Hospice of Dayton in 2010 paid its retiring chief executive, Deborah S. Dailey, $1.3 million, including a $908,000 reward for staying at the helm of the nonprofit for a decade.Dailey collected the “deferred compensation” payout — disclosed in recently released tax forms — upon her retirement at the end of 2010. She served the first eight months of that year as president and CEO, then ...

Hospice Turns Months-to-Live Patient Into Years of Abusing Drugs

Suffering from painful nerve damage in his feet, Charles Groomes was prescribed a daily dose of 205 milligrams of Oxycontin and oxycodone in 2007. His doctor wrote that it was the most he was comfortable prescribing -- more, he said, than anyone without cancer should take.