Shareefah Sabur

Chief Strategy Officer

Shareefah Sabur has 19 years of hospice experience. She oversees Organizational Quality, Performance Improvement, Adaptive Design and Government Relations at Hospice of the Western Reserve. She is responsible for collecting organizational outcome data, coordinating of various benchmarking opportunities and/or funding sources and overseeing Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) survey operations and regulatory audits. Additionally, she assists the CEO in strategic planning initiatives. Currently, she holds the position of past chair of The National Council of Hospice & Palliative Professionals (NCHPP), Executive Committee member of the national Hospice and Palliative Care Organization and is chair of FHSSA, formerly known as Foundation for Hospices in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Ms. Sabur is chair of the Hospice of the Western Reserve & Helderberg Hospice Partnership Committee, which she created after returning from Sub-Saharan Hospice Seminar Tour in 2001. The committee creates awareness about the challenges for healthcare organizations as they manage the AIDS pandemic, tuberculosis, malaria and cancer with so few resources, and coordinates fundraising activities to support our sister hospice, Helderberg Hospice in Somerset West, South Africa. She also acts as the agency’s liaison with Helderberg Hospice in matters related to information sharing and deepening our partnership.