“They treated my family member with a lot of love.”
R.S.Family Member
Our team is lead by Luis Velasquez RN, MHA, US Navy Senior Chief (SW), Retired. Luis is Hospice and Palliative Care Certified by the University of California, San Marcos. He is a retired disabled-veteran from the U. S. Navy, who served as an Independent Duty Hospital Corpsman and trained as a Naval Aerospace Physiology Technician at the Naval Aerospace Medical Institute (NAMI) at Pensacola Naval Air Station, Florida.
His assignments included U. S. Marine Corps Units, National Naval Medical Center at Walter Reed Hospital, Naval Station South Weymouth, Massachusetts, Naval Hospital at Portsmouth, Virginia, Independent Duty Hospital Corpsman at the British Island of Diego Garcia, Indian Ocean. Luis had multiple ship assignments as Independent Duty Hospital Corpsman onboard the USS Hoel (DDG13), USS Robison (DDG-12), where he was responsible for the health of the ships’ crew. He was also plank owner and member of the Medical Team onboard the Aircraft Carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70), among other assignments.
Luis has over 40 years of combined military and civilian health care experience including retiring after 14 years as a Medicare Surveyor with the State of California. He also has 15 years of providing direct hospice patient care services as well as administrative duties in hospice. Luis is the Director of Patient Care Services for Aria Hospice as well as the Administrator. He conducts hospice training of staff as well as supervision of the Aria Hospice Team. Luis has a passion for excellence in providing hospice care to all patients, especially for families of the military and Veterans.
