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• Covenant’s hospice operations span the panhandle of Florida and Alabama, specifically including the Tallahassee, Marianna, Fort Walton Beach, Panama City, Crestview and Pensacola markets in Florida, and the Dothan and Mobile/Daphne markets in Alabama.
• Nick Westfall, Chairman and CEO of VITAS Healthcare, stated, “Covenant Care has a 44-year history of providing high-quality, patient-centered care across communities in Florida and Alabama.
• We are excited to welcome the Covenant Care team members who decide to join our VITAS family as we collectively move forward with making a difference in all the communities we have the privilege of serving.
• VITAS is the nation's largest provider of end-of-life hospice care and Roto-Rooter is the nation’s leading provider of plumbing and drain cleaning services.

• Chemed Corporation (NYSE:CHE) today announced that it will deliver a virtual presentation at the Oppenheimer 34th Annual Healthcare Conference on Tuesday, March 12, 2024, at approximately 12:00 p.m. (ET).
• The webcast replay will be available within 24 hours of the live presentation and will be accessible for 90 days.
• Listed on the New York Stock Exchange and headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, Chemed Corporation ( www.chemed.com ) operates two wholly owned subsidiaries: VITAS Healthcare and Roto-Rooter.
• Such statements are forward-looking statements and are based on present information Chemed has related to its existing business circumstances.

• The three qualities that matter most in real estate also matter the most to graffiti artists: location, location, location.
• In Miami and Los Angeles, cities that contain some of the most expensive real estate in the U.S., graffiti artists have recently made sure their voices can be heard and seen, even from the sky.
• In what’s known as “graffiti bombing,” artists in both cities swiftly and extensively tagged downtown skyscrapers that had been abandoned.

Two cities, two graffiti bombings

• The Beijing-based developer was unable to pay contractors, and ongoing financing challenges forced the company to put the project on pause.
• Hundreds of taggers were involved in the Los Angeles graffiti bombing.
• There’s also a rich tradition of graffiti in the city.
• So Miami was a natural gathering place for graffiti artists during Art Basel in December 2023, and One Bayfront Plaza became the canvas for taggers from around the world.

Meaning and motivation

• In the early 2000s, when I started researching street graffiti, I learned that there are different names for different graffiti types.
• “Fill-ins” or “throw-ups” are quickly painted fat letters or bubble letters, usually outlined.
• The tradition of painting ornate graffiti names made me think of Paul Cézanne, who painted the same bowl of fruit over and over.
• The carefully chosen names and their letters become the subject that writers use to practice their craft.
• It was a fill-in – huge letters near the top of a three- or four-story building, very visible from the street.

Loud and clear

• These vertical graffiti bombing projects on failed skyscrapers, deliberately or not, call attention to the millions of dollars that are absorbed by taxpayers when private developers make bad investments.
• Because the names painted on the buildings are fill-ins, they’re not especially artistic.
• A former graffiti artist who goes by “ACTUAL” told The Washington Post that he’d come out of retirement to contribute to the Los Angeles project.

Colette Gaiter does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

• MIAMI, Feb. 06, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Professional growth continues to transpire at VITAS Healthcare as four tenured leaders ascend to vice president roles.
• Kathleen Coronado, Anthony Cosma, Mario De La Rosa and Angela Hamrick join the executive management team with more than 50 years of combined experience in hospice and palliative care at the nation’s leading provider.
• In this new role, effective April 2024, she will provide expanded leadership for multiple VITAS service areas and special projects.
• Following two decades at VITAS, De La Rosa now leads the Home Medical Equipment (HME) division for the national hospice provider.