Miami, Florida, April 12, 2007—Mary Cuervo of Miami has been promoted to senior director of compensation and benefits for VITAS Innovative Hospice Care®, a national hospice provider headquartered in Miami that employs more than 9,000 people. Cuervo oversees the evaluation and administration of employee benefit programs, from 401(k) to domestic partner health coverage, as well as the company’s salary administration and performance management programs.
“Mary has been instrumental in developing and implementing the organization’s compensation structure and she brings a depth of experience in the employee benefits arena, which is a key component of our employees’ compensation package,” says Kal Mistry, Senior Vice President of Human Resources.
Cuervo has been director of compensation at VITAS since 2003. She also has managed and consulted in the compensation departments of Ryder System, Burdine’s and Capital Banks.
Cuervo is a member of World at Work, a national compensation association through which she is a Certified Compensation Professional; she is certified in benefits administration. She is a member and formerly served on the board of the South Florida Compensation & Benefits Association. A Miami native, Cuervo has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Florida International University, Miami.
VITAS Innovative Hospice Care®, a pioneer and leader in the hospice movement since 1978, is the nation’s largest provider of end-of-life care. Headquartered in Miami, Florida, VITAS (pronounced VEE-tahs) operates 41 hospice programs in 16 states (California, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin). VITAS employs 9,059 professionals who care for terminally ill patients daily, primarily in the patients’ homes, but also in the company’s 25 inpatient hospice units as well as in hospitals, nursing homes and assisted living communities/residential care facilities for the elderly. At the conclusion of the third quarter of 2006, VITAS reported an average daily census of 11,213.
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