CarePartners Palliative Care hires new staff for PACE Center

The CarePartners Palliative Care team has made some new hires to its program as well as bringing in staff for the upcoming PACE Center, due to open in the Spring of 2014.

CarePartners would like to welcome new staff members as follows:

 

 

David Beijer

Dave Beijer, former Director of Palliative Care Operations at CarePartners, will take on the new role of Director of the CarePartners PACE Program. 

Amy Cohen

Amy Cohen, MD, formerly of MAHEC, joins the CarePartners team as the new Medical Director for the PACE facility. PACE stands for Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly and is slated to open on Overlook Road in Asheville in the spring of 2014. This PACE center will serve both Buncombe and Henderson counties.

Kimberly Fish

Kimberly Fish joins CarePartners as the new Director of Palliative Care Operations. Fish comes to CarePartners via Syracuse, NY where she was the director of an oncology practice.

Jeffrey A. Walker

Jeffrey Walker, MD, joins CarePartners as the Medical Director of Inpatient Palliative Care. Dr. Walker is board certified in Family, Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

David Lee Farley

David Farley, MD, joins CarePartners as a Palliative Care physician on the Hospital Team. Dr. Farley comes to CarePartners from the Asheville Specialty Hospital.