Rockland Hospice CEO Recognized for Work

Cara Pace, President and CEO of United Hospice, the leading nonprofit hospice provider in Rockland and Orange Counties, was named the 2025 winner of the Carol Selinske Founder’s Award, the most prestigious recognition awarded by the Hospice and Palliative Care Association of New York State (HPCANYS). The honor is given to individuals or teams whose exceptional contributions have shaped hospice and palliative care across New York. It is named after Carol Selinske, the first director of HPCANYS.

Cara was recognized with this award at the 45th annual HPCANYS conference. She was selected for a number of reasons, including her leadership at United Hospice, the high quality care United Hospice provides through their service delivery, her work on the HPCANYS board and her important state advocacy efforts. In the past year those efforts have included organizing a push to get New York State to pass and sign legislation to protect New Yorkers and nonprofit hospice providers as well as efforts to increase state funding for nonprofit hospice providers. 

Earlier this year, United Hospice was honored by the Rockland Business Association with the Pinnacle Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Non-Profit Organization and Cara Pace was named to the Board of Directors for the Rockland County Business Association. 

Cara Pace, President and CEO of United Hospice, said: “I am incredibly honored to have been named this year’s Selinske Award recipient by the Hospice and Palliative Care Association of New York State. As both a leader of a Hudson Valley based nonprofit hospice and a board member of HPCANYS I am dedicated to ensuring the long term success of our industry. I am deeply appreciative that HPCANYS has recognized that with their highest honor. I look forward to continuing to work with HPCANYS and my fellow providers across the state to ensure that New Yorkers have access to the high quality, compassionate end of life care that they deserve.”