Jill Jacobson Vice President Operations & Compliance, American Hospice

With over twenty years of health care experience, Jill leads the compliance, regulatory and quality improvement efforts of American Hospice. Her background is highlighted by more than eighteen years devoted to the hospice and home health industry in various capacities including: Hospice Administrator, consultant with state hospice organizations, and most recently as a lead compliance specialist and training / development director for one of the largest privately held national home health care corporations.  

The focus of American Hospice’s Corporate Compliance Program is strong business ethics and accountability within the company and hospice industry. A significant portion of that focus is directed at compliance with all applicable rules, regulations and laws that govern state and federal healthcare programs. Each local provider is tasked with the monitoring, advising, and expansion of the company's adherence to the program.  The goal in creating a strong compliance plan is to help Hospice maintain its commitment to quality service delivery.  

American Hospice is devoted to quality excellence as evidenced by a litany of strategic systems, customer-centric based, to champion compliance and drive value added performance improvement processes.  The American Hospice national compliance team promotes beneficial changes at all levels of quality and performance improvement through the execution of comprehensive self-assessments of care and services, internal and external benchmarking activities, and a concentration on best practice development.  

American Hospice is one of the ten largest hospice companies in the country. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, AH owns and operates nineteen hospice sites in Arizona, Oklahoma, Georgia, New Jersey, and Virginia.