For Monica Escalante, a chance encounter at work turned into a volunteer opportunity that morphed into a new career path.
While working in marketing for a Silver Spring company, Escalante was assigned a campaign for the Hospice and Palliative Care Network of Maryland.
“As part of that campaign, I was trying to understand what hospice was about,” Escalante says. “I really became fascinated with end of life care.”
To Escalante, the idea of a team of clinicians going into homes to provide…
