Medical Directors
Dr. Alice Inouye, Medical Director
Dr. Inouye joined Good Samaritan Hospice in June of 2011. She graduated from Tufts University School Medicine in 1978, did a family practice residency in Winston-Salem, N.C. and then became a solo rural family practitioner in the hills of North Carolina delivering babies and caring for families for 10 years. She then moved to Roanoke, VA, and was a teacher of family medicine in the Family Practice Residency Program at Roanoke Memorial Hospital for 14 years. In November 2003, she embarked in a solo private house call practice caring for those patients housebound and chronically or terminally ill. She is now continuing care for the few patients in the house call practice while enjoying the team care of patients and families in Good Samaritan Hospice.
Dr. William Fintel, Associate Medical Director
Dr. Fintel has been with Good Samaritan Hospice as a medical director for nearly twenty years. After graduating from the University of Minnesota medical school in 1983, he completed his residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in hematology/oncology at the University of Virginia. He is presently an oncologist with the Blue Ridge Cancer Center, where he has been since 2000. He has written a handful of publications about coping and living with cancer. When he is not seeing patients or writing, Dr. Fintel spends time with his wife, Connie, and their four sons.
Department Directors
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Sue Moore Ranson is co-founder and President/CEO of Good Samaritan Hospice, the first community-based, not-for-profit, Medicare-certified hospice in the Roanoke Valley. She has an M.S.N. from the University of Virginia and a B.S.N. from the University of Maryland. She chairs the Palliative Care Partnership of the Roanoke and New River valleys and also serves on the Board of Directors for the Virginia Association for Hospices and Friendship Retirement Community. She is on the Futures Board of the Virginia Tech Center for Gerontology, College of Health Sciences Nursing Education Advisory Committee and Family Service Utilization Review Committee. She was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, has two children, and is a member of First Church of the Brethren, Roanoke.
Marvin Barbre, Director of Spiritual Care – NRV and Roanoke
Kathy Bell, Director of Compliance – NRV and Roanoke
Martie Byrum, Director of Patient Services – NRV
Cindy Hagerman, Director of Community Relations & Development – NRV and Roanoke
Becky Harris, Director of Volunteer Services – NRV and Roanoke
Teresa Witmer, Director of Social Work – NRV and Roanoke
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, Director of Nursing – NRV
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, Director of Patient Services – Roanoke
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, Director of Business Administration
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, Director of Admissions – Roanoke
Board of Directors
Alan Boyce, Chair – Episcopal Diocese of SWVA
Anne Edenifeld, Vice Chair – Elder Law Attorney
Scott Berglund – Elk Hill Advisors
Carol Dalhouse
David English – Strategic Crossings
Doris Ennis
Wayne Epperly - First Citizens Bank
Mary Ann Johnson
Dr. Aubrey Knight – Carilion Clinic
Dr. Joseph Nelson– Valley Gastroenterology of SW Virginia
Sue Ranson – Good Samaritan Hospice
Dr. Bud Robertson – Virginia Tech
George Smith
Kathy Stockburger – Kathy Stockburger Consulting
Peggy Strong
Ellen Ward – Warm Hearth Village