David Rehm, Executive Director
Community Hospices

David W. Rehm is President and CEO of The Washington Home and Community Hospices.  Prior to joining TWH and CH's, David served as the Vice President of Operations for VistaCare's Eastern and Western regions - providing leadership for more than 25 hospice operating sites throughout the United States and Senior Vice President for Business Development/Acquisitions.

Mr. Rehm has been a leader in hospice for the past 19 years.  Prior to joining VistaCare in 1998, he served as Vice President of Lifespan Diversified Services and as President/CEO of Hospice Care of Rhode Island (HCRI).  He also served as a member of HCRI's Board and Executive Committee.  Under Mr. Rehm's leadership, HCRI became the largest provider of palliative care and hospice services in New England.

Before becoming involved with hospice, Mr. Rehm devoted 10 years of service to the Kent County Mental Health Center where he served as Associate Director.  He is a licensed, independent practitioner in psychiatric social work and has been a member of a private practice group that provided counseling services to children, adolescents and families.

Mr. Rehm is an ACSW with a Bachelor's Degree from Brown University and a Master's Degree from Simmons College School of Social Work.  He has held a faculty appointment to the Brown University School of Medicine and is a frequent speaker on end-of-life issues.  He has served as an officer and board member for numerous organizations including, Again 2000, Hospice Coop USA, Rhode Island Partnership for Homecare, Mental Health Association of Rhode Island, Governor's Council on AIDS, and the Rape Crisis Center of Rhode Island.

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Charles Harrison, MD
Community Hospice's Medical Director

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Karlene Conrad
Director, Hospice Operations

Karlene Conrad has more than 26 years of healthcare management experience with nine years in multi- hospice programs. She received her nursing degree from Gloucester County College before attending the BSN Program at Widener University in Chester, PA.   She is a registered nurse in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.   Ms. Conrad has been specially trained in infusion therapy, oncology, coronary care, palliative care and pain management.

As Director of New Program Development, Ms. Conrad has served as contract liaison for clinical operations and Director of Hospice and Home Health of The Hospices of the National Capital Region, a local three-jurisdiction hospice serving a census of more than 625.   She also served as Director of Performance Improvement and Compliance.   She taught contract skills for marketing personnel as a member of the national sales training team.   She received he first Presidential Circle award on customer service and traveled to Japan to help her counterparts in that country begin services.

Ms. Conrad has participated and presented at the National Association of Homecare Annual Conference, the Annual Delaware Home Health Agency Conference and has been published in the CARING homecare magazine.

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Dr. Sydney Dy. MD, MSc

Sydney Dy, MD, MSc received her medical degree and a Masters in Health Services Research from the Stanford School of Medicine. Board-certified in both specialties, she trained in internal medicine and hospice and palliative medicine.   She completed the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Dy helped create, and is the primary attending and fellowship director for, the interdisciplinary Palliative Care Consultation Service at the Johns Hopkins Department of Medicine.  

She attends on the cancer pain consultation service at Johns Hopkins' Department of Oncology and at the Washington Home inpatient hospice unit. She is the Medical Director for he Omega Life Program, an outpatient palliative care case management service of Johns Hopkins Healthcare.  

Dr. Dy is an Assistant Professor at the Health Services Research Center, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; and at the Departments of Medicine and Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.   She was the Medical Director for Johns Hopkins Hospice before joining Maryland Community Hospice as Associate Medical Director.   Johns Hopkins affiliated with Community Hospices in 2002.  

Dr. Dy teaches on end-of-life, hospice, and palliative care issues through Johns Hopkins Hospital and Schools of Medicine and Public Health, and co-teaches a course on Quality of Health Care.   Her research interests include improving quality, use of technology, and access to care for patients facing serious and terminal illnesses; quality of health care; and inner-city health care.

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Maureen Dimont
Vice President , Philanthropy

The Washington Home and Community Hospices

Maureen Dimont, VP of Philanthropy, has over twenty years of fundraising and management experience.  For the past ten years, she has raised funds for hospice services, including conducting a capital campaign to build an inpatient hospice facility.   

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