Suncoast Institute
5771 Roosevelt Boulevard
Clearwater
FLUSA
33760-3413
Biographical Sketch: Susan Bruno has worked in the hospice industry since 1982 beginning as a hospice social worker at Suncoast Hospice and then moving onto the Program Director in the same program. She then had the opportunity to work in two other large hospice programs serving in various capacities such as Development Director (starting new hospice programs), Corporate Director of Psychosocial Services, and Vice President of Marketing and Business Development. In 2001 she returned to Suncoast Hospice in the education and training Institute as the Director of Institute Outreach, working to improve end-of-life care throughout the country.
Susan has presented extensively over the past 20 years at the state and national level on program development, admission strategies, access to care, clinical excellence in end-of-life care and caregiver outreach. She served on the National Hospice Organization’s Standards committee and was a contributing author of the NHO Standards of a Hospice Program and NHO Pathway for Patients and Families Facing Terminal Illness. She has been a contributing writer and author of several articles and handbooks.