Capital Caring to honor ML Strategies' Senior VP with Distinguished Advocacy Partner Award

Tom Koutsoumpas, Senior Vice President of ML Strategies, is being honored by Capital Caring for his efforts to improve hospice services in Washington, D.C. Mr. Koutsoumpas will be presented with the Distinguished Advocacy Partner Award at the fifth annual "Hospice Comes to Washington" event on Wednesday, March 28, 2012.

Capital Caring is an organization that offers comprehensive, compassionate care to patients and families who may need help dealing with a serious, progressive illness. The annual "Hospice Comes to Washington" event works to raise awareness of the benefits of hospice and palliative care, and to ensure that the seriously ill in the Washington, D.C. area get the high quality hospice care they deserve.

Mr. Koutsoumpas has been a strong advocate for hospice care in the United States from the very beginning. He worked to help create the Medicare Hospice Benefit which is now a critical part of Medicare.

Mr. Koutsoumpas is Executive Director of the Mintz Levin Center for Health Law & Policy and Senior Vice President of ML Strategies, a consulting affiliate of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.

Mr. Koutsoumpas also co-founded and now co-chairs the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC). C-TAC is a national, nonprofit, non-partisan alliance of patient and consumer advocacy groups, health care providers, private sector stakeholders, faith-based organizations, and health care payers with the shared mission to help provide all Americans, especially the sickest and most vulnerable, with comprehensive, high quality, patient-centered care that is consistent with their goals and values and honors their dignity.