VITAS Delaware welcomes new medical director

Debbie Vermette, MD, has been named medical director for VITAS Innovative Hospice Care of Delaware. Board certified in hospice and palliative medicine and in family medicine, Vermette is responsible for the medical care and treatment of VITAS patients in VITAS’ Delaware community.

Consistent with VITAS’ commitment to hire only the top qualified and credentialed healthcare professionals, Vermette joined VITAS in 2004 as a home care team physician in Fort Worth, Texas. She was promoted to medical director in VITAS’ Forth Worth program in February 2008. In 2007, she was named VITAS’ National Physician Caregiver of the Year, and was appointed to VITAS’ Leadership Council in 2009.

“We are delighted to have ‘Dr. Debbie’ join us here in Delaware,” says Lisa Wheeler, VITAS general manager. “She brings to us excellent experience as a compassionate and highly skilled hospice physician and medical director, and her commitment to the VITAS values of patient and family care.”

Vermette received an undergraduate degree at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth and a medical degree at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas Southwestern Medical School. She completed a family practice residency at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Memorial Hermann Hospital System.

VITAS Innovative Hospice Care, www.vitas.com, is the nation’s leading provider of end-of-life care. A pioneer and leader in the hospice movement since 1978, VITAS has been caring for the terminally ill and their families in Delaware since 2004.