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Latest News: Community Hospice Welcomes New St. Augustine Medical Director; Twiggs Joins Medical Team Full-Time JACKSONVILLE, Florida - Community Hospice of Northeast Florida has announced the hiring of Suhas Neerukonda, M.D. as associate medical director for St. Augustine and St. Johns County. The organization also has tapped Donald Twiggs, M.D., a longtime part-time associate medical director, to serve Community Hospice patients and families in a full-time capacity. As Community Hospice associate medical directors, Neerukonda and Twiggs oversee patient care as part of an interdisciplinary team of professionals, including nurses, social services professionals, certified nursing assistants, spiritual counselors, bereavement specialists and volunteers. Along with other members of the Community Hospice medical services department, which includes eight full-time and eight part-time medical directors, they recommend treatments and medications and provide continuing medical education programs on end-of-life issues to community health care professionals. In addition to his role as a hospice medical director, Neerukonda is a private-practice physician for Anastasia Medical Group in St. Augustine, where he specializes in internal medicine. Previously he worked in private practice for Medical Specialists of St. Augustine, as well as in Connecticut as an attending physician and chief resident of internal medicine and in India as a medical officer at a hospital. Neerukonda received his medical degree in India and completed his internal medicine internship and residency at the University of Connecticut. He is board-certified in internal medicine and is a member of the American Board of Quality Assurance & Utilization Review. He joined the Community Hospice medical services staff in October. Twiggs retired from a family practice in Fernandina Beach, where he worked for 25 years, before joining Community Hospice full-time in October. He serves the organization's patients residing in Nassau County and Jacksonville's Northside communities. Before coming to Florida, Twiggs earned his medical degree from the University of Cincinnati and was a member of a group practice in Logan, Ohio. He is active in the Florida Academy of Family Physicians and served as its president in 1992-93. Established in 1979 as the first hospice program in northeast Florida, Community Hospice of Northeast Florida provides compassionate care to nearly 1,000 patients daily in Baker, Clay, Duval, Nassau and St. Johns counties, through the support of more than 700 employees and 1,100 volunteers. The nonprofit organization has served more than 38,000 children and adults-at home, in long-term care facilities, hospitals and through its two inpatient facilities in Jacksonville. Community Hospice Foundation generates philanthropic and community support for unfunded and under-funded programs, including indigent hospice care, programs and services through the Charles M. Neviaser Educational Institute, and Community PedsCare, a pediatric palliative and hospice program. Care is available to all patients who need it, regardless of their ability to pay. PLEASE NOTE: Digital head shots of Drs. Neerukonda and Twiggs are available. Please e-mail jmagee@communityhospice.com for more information. # # # 
Contact: Jay Magee Communications Specialist 904.407.6392 jmagee@communityhospice.com
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Jay Magee, Communications Specialist, 904.596.6392 |