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The Hospice Senior Leadership Team
Clinical Leadership
Jennifer Chupailo
Quality & Compliance Manager
Lori Jenkins, RN
Poppen Residence Manager
Pamela Wingard, LMSW
Social Services & Counseling Manager
Bobbie Mead, CENA, CHPNA
Clinical Support Coordinator
Ashley Hartzell, RN, CHPN
Clinical Manager
Amber Wallace
Volunteer & Events Coordinator
Business Operations and Marketing Leadership
John Wilson
Systems Manager
Stephanie Fiebig
Human Resources Manager
Trinecia LeFear
Community Marketing Liaison
Emily Eling
Executive Assistant & Office Manager
“I volunteered for a few years before I became employed by Harbor Hospice. I believe in the mission and appreciate the care and concern our staff and Harbor Hospice have for each other as a family.”
– Brenda Grant, Office Support Assistant 18 years
| The Hospice Team | Our trained staff approaches patient and family care as an interdisciplinary team. Each patient receives services tailored to individual needs provided by the hospice care team that includes nurses, social workers, home health aides, chaplains, physicians and specially trained volunteers. |
| Hospice Physician and Nurse Practitioner | Responsible for identifying a patient’s need and/or continued need for end-of-life care. Provides hospice information for families and patients, which includes describing how hospice works. Key member of the care team participating in the hospice care plan, including visits made to home, facility, or hospice residence to discuss prognosis or to review and adjust the hospice plan of care. |
| Personal Physicians | The patient’s attending physician is a member of the hospice team and remains actively involved in the patient’s care. |
| Skilled Nurses | Skilled nurses play a key role in easing physical and emotional symptoms. Nursing visits are as frequent as patient need dictates. In addition to coordinating the patient’s care, nurses provide direct nursing care and educate and support both the patient and caregivers. |
| Social Workers and Counselors | Social workers and Counselors provide services that include helpful information to guide families during the end of life journey and grief support. As needs are identified, the social worker assists the patient and family with coping strategies that may include emotional, social, financial or spiritual assistance. |
| Certified Nursing Assistants | Certified nursing assistants or home health aides assist with daily living needs. Personal hygiene care, (bath, shampoo, oral hygiene), simple wound care, toileting, feeding, and skincare is provided. Supportive care such as personal laundry and meal preparation is available. |
| Spiritual Counselors | Spiritual counselors provide support in keeping with the patient’s personal faith or belief system and practice. If the patient does not have a spiritual care provider and wishes one, the hospice chaplain is available to visit or assist in locating a cleric of their choice. The chaplain is also available to support clerics in meeting the needs of patients. |
| Specially Trained Volunteers | Specially trained volunteers are available for companionship, errands, spiritual support and respite care. |
Board of Directors
Roger Morgenstern, Chairperson
Retired PR Director
Muskegon
Curt Babcock, Vice Chair
North Muskegon Public Schools
North Muskegon
Susan Houseman, President / CEO
Harbor Hospice
Muskegon
Kathy Moore, Treasurer
Chief Executive Health Office
Muskegon
David Wingard, Secretary
Public Sector Consultants
North Muskegon
Amanda Rodriguez
Mercy Health
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Connie Learman
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
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Mishelle Comstock
Shelby Bank Executive
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John Foss
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Eva Berumen Reyna
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Shelby Nakon
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