Betty J Brennan, RN, BSN has a forty-year career in health care, the last thirty of which focused on the development and management of innovative healthcare services in the post-acute setting. Her background includes extensive practice in acute care cardiovascular and intensive care nursing as well as in home health care and hospice. Betty is the former owner and operator of Ramona, California-based Back Country Home Care which she sold to Scripps Medical Center in 1994. For thirteen years Betty was founder, president, and CEO of Boston, Massachusetts-based Beacon Hospice which she nurtured from a single site serving fourteen terminally ill homebound patients to twenty-five sites located in five New England states serving an average daily census of 1,400. She merged Beacon with Amedisys Corporation in June 2011. Betty, a creative service innovator, has contributed to the advancement of the quality of end-of-life care with proprietary services for terminal sufferers of cancer, cardiac disease, and dementia. In 2006 Betty was recipient of the prestigious Earnst & Young award of Entrepreneur of the Year for her creativity, leadership, business development, and management skills in health care services.

After leaving Beacon, Betty continued to be actively engaged in the health care field developing and marketing education, consultative services, and specialty products for the delivery of care, comfort, and enhanced quality of life to chronically ill persons. She also serves on the board of trustees of the National Hospice Foundation, Washington, DC; and is a board member of the Connecticut Alzheimer’s Association and the Connecticut Assisted Living Association. Betty, a registered nurse, received a nursing degree from the Eastern Maine School of Nursing and her BSN from the University of Phoenix.