Surry Business

Mountain Valley Hospice & Palliative Care of Mount Airy has announced that Ron Pardue is its new chief financial officer.

He will report directly to Executive Director Denise Watson.

Pardue comes to Mountain Valley Hospice & Palliative Care with nearly 30 years of professional experience, 25 of them in financial management. Most recently, Pardue was employed by Ajilan Finance and served as a controller for Hanesbrands Export in a temporary assignment that included month-end close, financial reporting and analysis and planning. Between 1988 and 2004 at UnitedHealthcare in Greensboro he was controller, finance director and accounting manager. Prior to that he was a plant controller with Hon Industries Inc., an office-furniture manufacturer in Louisburg, N.C.

Pardue earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A native of Elkin, Pardue currently lives in Kernersville with his wife, Kathy.

Mountain Valley Hospice also has announced that Mary Beth Wood will be the coordinator of its new “Transitions” program.

The “Transitions” program serves people with life-limiting illnesses who may not be eligible for, or wish to enroll in, hospice, but who may benefit from volunteer support and community resources.

Mountain Valley Hospice & Palliative Care is a nonprofit organization serving the terminally ill in Surry, Yadkin and 11 other counties. Through its team of trained specialists, health-care professionals and volunteers, Mountain Valley Hospice addresses the growing need for compassionate hospice care through offices in Yadkinville, Elkin, Mount Airy and Galax, Va.

In October 2007, Mountain Valley Hospice broke ground for the state-of-the-art Joan and Howard Woltz Hospice Home scheduled for completion this fall 2008.