Leadership

Annette Miller is a graduate of Michigan State University with a Bachelors degree in Communications with an emphasis in Communications (1990). Annette has worked in hospice care for 31 years starting at Hospice of Northeastern Michigan, a non profit hospice, in 1991. Annette worked for 12 years in many capacities with Hospice of Northeastern Michigan then becoming Hospice of Michigan where she worked as Admissions Director, Executive Director and ending her career at Hospice of Michigan as the Northern Regional Director. She was appointed to the Leadership team for Hospice of Michigan, lead the Northern Region Ethics Committee, developed the first hospice/ nursing home facility patient care in northern Michigan and serviced several communities throughout northern Michigan.

Upon moving to South Carolina with her family in 2003, Annette started the Laurens County Wound Care and Hyperbaric Chamber in 2004. Missing her love of Hospice care, she began working for Vistacare in 2006 as the Executive Director for the Greenville, SC branch. She successfully lead a struggling location to profitability and won several awards for the highest patient satisfaction scores as well as quality care and fiscal responsibility awards. She was appointed to the leadership team for all of Vistacare that became Odyssey Hospice. She ended her career 11 years later as a Regional Director for Kindred Hospice to become President and CEO of Hospice of the Upstate.

Annette returned to her love of non-profit hospice work through Hospice of the Upstate and Rainey Hospice House in 2017. In 2021, she began the work of creating Upstate Palliative Care which services our 7 counties with outpatient palliative care services. She is honored to be a part of a prosperous, patient focused, caring organization that values their employees and excellent quality of care for all patients and families.