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Mary K. Sheehan, MSN, MBA, RN
President and CEO
Mary K. Sheehan, MSN, MBA, RN became president and CEO of Midwest Palliative & Hospice CareCenter in January 2007 after serving as the organization's chief operating officer since 2005.
With more than 20 years’ experience in the hospice and home health industry, including 15 years with Midwest CareCenter, Ms. Sheehan has a master’s degree in oncology nursing from Loyola University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She began her career in hospice and palliative care as a staff nurse on the oncology unit at Foster G. McGaw Hospital (now Loyola University Hospital).
Ms. Sheehan joined the Public Policy Committee of the National Hospice and Pallitive Care Organization (NHPCO) in 2010, and has been a member of the NHPCO Data Advisory Council since 2009. She is a Site Advisory Committee member for the Population-based Palliative Care Research Network. She also serves on the Advisory Board of the Hospice Association of America and, as a representative of that group, participated in the 2005 national review of the proposed Conditions of Participation for Medicare-certified hospice programs.
Since 2003, Ms. Sheehan has served on the Joint Commission Hospice Advisory Committee and was appointed to the Joint Commission Standards Improvement Initiative Taskforce in November 2006. She also is a member of the National Hospice Work Group, and served as chairperson of the group’s Clinical Directors Forum from 2005 to 2007.
Ms. Sheehan has been a member of the Hospice and Palliative Care Advisory Board of the Illinois Department of Public Health since 2008 and was a member of the Illinois Home Care Council Board of Directors from 2002 to 2008. In January 2010, she was appointed to the Loyola University Alumni Advisory Board.
The author or co-author of numerous professional journal articles on the care of individuals with terminal illnesses, Ms. Sheehan has spoken regionally and nationally on end-of-life care. In 2009, Loyola University recognized Ms. Sheehan’s work by presenting her with a Distinguished Alumni Award, the most prestigious acknowledgement of Loyola nursing alumni accomplishment.
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