Over the past eight years, Mike has authored the success of Hudson Valley Hospice, with a passionate vision to bring quality end-of-life care to residents of the Hudson Valley Hospice.  During this time, it has become the third largest hospice in NYS, increasing staff from 85 to 350, giving them the resources to increase services for patients from 100 to 640 per day. Ensuring that their patients receive the care and support they deserve during one of the most critical times in their lives.  He has improved the finances of HVH sufficiently to buy and expand the administrative buildings in Poughkeepsie and Kingston; launched a palliative care practice affiliate, Hudson Valley Medical Health Choices, and now, after years of planning, New York State’s newest hospice house is open in Hyde Park.  For the first time, Dutchess and Ulster County patients and their loved ones will no longer need to leave the area for this specialized level of care.  It is the first hospice house able to care for people who require general inpatient level care, with high flow oxygen in all 14 patient suites, thanks to his efforts to convince New Yorks State’s Department of Health to allow each suite to be built to the inpatient standard.  

His road to Hudson Valley Hospice has been varied and demanding as the world of healthcare has evolved over his 60-plus years in the healthcare.  He earned his MPH from the University of Pittsburgh and held various positions at Allegheny General in Pittsburgh, Lawrence Hospital in Bronxville, and the Westchester Medical Center before being named CEO of Flushing Hospital in Queens, then Interfaith Medical Center in Brooklyn and finally the CEO who brought Kingston Hospital back to solvency and worked with New York State to approve the merger of Kingston and Benedictine Hospitals which became the Health Alliance of Hudson Valley. Before becoming President and CEO of Hudson Valley Hospice, Mike served on its Board of Directors for nine years. He credits his successes to stressing with staffs the importance of providing high quality patient care as primary to bottom line results.