VP of Long Term Care and Specialty Services
San Diego Hospice and The Institute for Palliative Medicine
Patient Care Services
4311 Third Avenue
San Diego
CAUSA
92103-1407
Biographical Sketch: Carol Lovci, MS is the Vice President of Long Term Care and Specialty Services at San Diego Hospice and The Institute for Palliative Medicine. With an average daily census of 1,000 patients, San Diego Hospice has become one of the nation’s 10 largest hospices since its establishment more than 30 years ago. They offer the highest quality education and training standards in the field, and have achieved national and global recognition for excellence of patient care. The Institute for Palliative Medicine helped to establish palliative medicine as a medical sub-specialty in 2006. It trains 1,400 physicians, nurses and other health team members in palliative medicine every year, while having more palliative medicine physicians on staff than any hospice in the country.
Carol joined San Diego Hospice in 1998 as a RN case manager. In 2003, Carol became a Clinical Manager, overseeing a geographic clinical care team while piloting research studies, including a “path” study funded by the National Cancer Institute. In 2007 Carol became a member of the core leadership at San Diego Hospice as an Executive Director and more recently, a Vice President. Carol continues to take a hands-on role in leading access care programs, internal staffing registry, therapy services, wound care services, and Certified Home Health Aide services. She oversees a strong, interdisciplinary team of clinical managers who specialize in providing hospice care to patients in long-term care settings throughout San Diego County via twenty unique, geographic, care teams and has devoted herself to developing a gold-standard long-term care program which can be utilized by other hospice agencies.
A recipient of both the prestigious DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses and the esteemed CCSD Instructor of the Year award, Carol makes time to teach nursing students at the California College of San Diego and to provide nursing consultation services via the California Mentors program. Carol facilitates Shared Care Model workshops and management consultations for hospice agencies nationwide.