Dorothy E. Deremo, MSN, MHSA, RN, CHE
President and CEO

Dorothy (Dottie) Deremo is dedicated to helping terminally ill individuals receive the care, dignity and compassion they deserve during the final stages of life. She uses her expertise on end-of-life issues to improve access to quality care on both the statewide and national fronts. As President and CEO of Hospice of Michigan since 1998, Ms. Deremo has drawn on experience gained during a 30-year career that includes nursing care delivery and key hospital executive/nursing administration positions to oversee the state’s largest provider of hospice and palliative services. In addition to ensuring high quality, compassionate care for more than 800 patients each day, Deremo is tireless in her efforts to innovate processes to enhance the delivery of care and to use technology to increase efficiency.

Prior to working for HOM, she was vice president of patient care services and chief nursing officer at Henry Ford Health System. She has held several executive positions at the Detroit Medical Center and has been an assistant professor at both Michigan State University and Wayne State University during her 37-year career in health care.

Ms. Deremo has given many speeches and conferences on health care issues nationally and internationally. She has been a national and international health care consultant. She has also published numerous articles and four book chapters. Her focus is to improve the health of the community through creative health service delivery models.

Ms. Deremo is a Commissioner on the health care Michigan Certificate of Need Commission appointed by Governor Granholm. Ms. Deremo is the Vice Chairman of two boards: the Michigan Hospice and Palliative Care Organization and Oakwood Health System. She is also a member of several other boards including the Detroit Economic Club, National Hospice Work Group, Wayne State University College of Nursing Advisory Board, University Cultural Center Association, and Greater Detroit Area Health Council Board of Directors. Ms. Deremo is a member of Sigma Theta Tau, American College of Health Care Executives, and Leadership Detroit.

Previously, Governor Engler appointed Ms. Deremo to the Michigan End-of-Life Care Commission and the Michigan State Hospital Finance Authority, the bonding agency for the State. Ms. Deremo was also a member of the Pew Health Professions Commission’s Taskforce on Health Care Workforce Regulation and the Foundation for American Health Care Leadership Blue Print for Health Care Policy Reform workgroup. Finally, Ms. Deremo was the founding Chairman of the Board of Operation ABLE, an organization helping mid-career individuals obtain employment.

Ms. Deremo graduated from Henry Ford Hospital School of Nursing and received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in nursing from Wayne State University. She received a Master’s Degree in Health Services Administration from the University of Michigan.

Ms. Deremo has completed three fellowships. She was a Johnson & Johnson Nurse Executive Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business in 1986 and a Health Trust Fellow at the Kings Fund College of Great Britain studying the British National Health Service in 1995. Ms. Deremo received the Michigan Non-Profit Leader of the Year Award in 2004 by the Harvard Business School Club that sponsors a fellowship for the award winner to attend the Harvard Business School. She completed the fellowship in Strategic Perspectives in Non-Profit Management at the Harvard Business School in 2005.

Ms. Deremo received Wayne State University’s Distinguished Corporate Leadership Award in 1998 and is listed in Crain’s Detroit Business Who’s Who List of 2005.