Honoring the lives and legacies of hospice leaders - September 2025

Honoring the lives and legacies of hospice leaders - September 2025

• Balfour Mount, MD, with the following post from AAHPM: "... a visionary whose compassion and courage transformed the landscape of serious illness care. Widely recognized as the “father of palliative care in North America”, Dr. Mount’s legacy is woven into the very fabric of our field. ... Dr. Mount’s legacy is not only in the programs he built or the accolades he received, but in the lives he touched—patients, families, clinicians, and communities. His vision challenged us to see beyond the illness, to embrace the person, and to lead with empathy and integrity. ...  With gratitude and reverence, American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
  
  
• Carol McAdoo, with the following post from the Louisiana-Mississippi Hospice & Palliative Care Association: "With gratitude for her life and efforts, we are saddened to announce the unexpected death of Carol McAdoo .  Carol was loved and appreciated for her work with LMHPCO Prison Hospice Support Project.  Before her retirement in 2019, she was very involved our educational prison conferences and her visits always resulted in greater care being provided by staff and inmates. She helped LMHPCO maintain a commitment to working with inmates and correctional administrators and staff members to ensure better palliative and end-of-life care in prison facilities and communities across Louisiana and Mississippi."