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For Immediate Release

Press Release

CONTACT: Manager of Marketing and Communications Jeremy Haupt

jeremy.haupt@havenhospice.com | 904.945.0256

Haven Hospice Employees Win Florida Hospice and Palliative Care Association Awards 

Gainesville, FL, May 30, 2025 – Haven Hospice employees were awarded two Florida Hospice and Palliative Care Association (FHPCA) Awards of Excellence at the 2024 FHPCA 40th Forum in Orlando, Florida.

Haven team members won two of seven awards given to hospice employees statewide for excellence in the delivery of hospice and palliative care. Haven Director of Clinical Operations Kristal Goodwin was awarded the Barbara Janosko Excellence in Leadership Award, which recognizes a manager whose work has promoted the advancement of hospice and palliative care and demonstrates exceptional service, creativity and leadership in their own hospice program as well as interorganizational relationships.

Haven’s Tri-County Hospice Care Center team in Chiefland, Florida, was awarded the Synergy Award—which recognizes a group of people that has consistently demonstrated the ideals of collaboration and teamwork in working toward a goal or mission—for their outstanding service in the wake of widespread hurricane destruction.

“We are incredibly proud of our FHPCA award winners,” said Haven Hospice Vice President of Business Development Jen Malko. “Kristal and the members of the Chiefland team live out Haven’s mission of ‘honoring life by providing comfort, care and compassion to individuals and families we serve’ every day. It is an honor to have them on our team and we are thrilled their contributions were recognized by the FHPCA.”

Haven’s winners were nominated by their leaders for their outstanding commitment to patients and families, their peers and the profession as a whole. Their nominations detailed the respective team members’ unique contributions and extensive involvement at Haven as well as in the community. They were recognized at the FHPCA’s 40th Forum’s awards ceremony and awarded a plaque. To learn more about each of the FHPCA awards, visit https://floridahospices.org/forum/awards-of-excellence/.

About Haven Hospice: Haven Hospice is the source for patients, their families and their healthcare providers to find answers to their advanced illness challenges. When health becomes a challenge, we will be your haven. For more information, visit havenhospice.com or call 800-727-1889. Serving advanced illness needs in Florida since 1979.

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