Kathleen Coronado, RN, joined VITAS® Healthcare in 2006 as a home care nurse in Broward County. She attributes her successful career trajectory at VITAS to the support and guidance of her leadership team, hard work and desire to bring the best care to VITAS patients and families. During her career at VITAS, Coronado rose through the ranks from nurse to team manager, then IPU manager and prior to her promotion, as patient care administrator.

 

Before joining VITAS, Coronado worked as an RN in critical care and emergency department settings at various Broward hospitals like Memorial Hospital West, Kindred Hospital Hollywood, Westside Regional Medical Center and North Shore Medical Center in Miami. She is an alumna of Broward College and Chamberlain University.

 

Annette Requena, BSN, joined VITAS® Healthcare in 2007 as a home care nurse and was promoted to home care team manager in 2011. In 2014 she served as inpatient team manager and was promoted again to patient care administrator in 2016.

 

Prior to VITAS, Requena worked as a registered nurse at Baptist Hospital in the neurology, medical-surgical and telemetry unit where she worked closely with patients, physicians, therapists and social services. She earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing from University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida.

Erika Gaudio provides leadership and execution to VITAS® Healthcare’s nationwide sales organization and enhances the elevation of VITAS’ educational approach and marketing collaterals. She joined VITAS® Healthcare in 2009 as a representative in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was promoted the following year to director of market development. She transferred in the same role to Broward County and was promoted to senior then regional director of market development in the following years. In 2016, Gaudio assumed responsibility for the sales training function and was promoted to VP of Sales.

 

Gaudio is a licensed Assisted Living Facility Administrator in the state of Florida. She earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration and master’s degree in organizational studies and leadership from Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh.

 

In 2017, Julio Rodriguez-Simon joined VITAS® Healthcare as VP of Business Intelligence and Senior Data Officer. Since joining the IT team, his responsibilities doubled when he began managing all development activity for VITAS. His leadership, drive and dedication have attracted top technologists to the VITAS IT team, securing the delivery of the most advanced data warehouse in healthcare.

 

Rodriguez-Simon had a track record for delivery prior to joining VITAS, serving as director for global technical support for Citrix, and as senior director of analytics for Anda, Inc., one of South Florida’s leading pharmacy distribution companies. He earned a master’s degree in Physics, specializing in Microelectronics, from Universidad Complutense de Madrid in Spain.

 

Emily Hill leads the effort to transform the way VITAS® Healthcare uses technology and data. In 2014, she joined VITAS as an internal management consultant and was later promoted to centralized intake and billing administrator for palliative care, and then to director roles in revenue cycle and innovation and strategy. Prior to joining VITAS, she collaborated with the University of Miami Health System’s (U-Health) process improvement teams and served as director of volunteers for a hospice provider in Miami.

 

Hill earned a bachelor’s degree in History from Yale University and a master’s degree in Psychology from the Southern Connecticut State University, both located in New Haven, Connecticut. Additionally, she earned a master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Miami in Coral Gables.