Kimberly Shadur is a Palliative Care and Hospice Nurse with Unity Care at Home. She has been managing the care of patients with newly diagnosed chronic or terminal illnesses since 2006, also she provides education of disease processes, facilitates health care decisions, and manages symptoms. Her work focuses on quality of life for patients and family members interested in living life to the fullest, as well as those preparing for the end of their life.
While earning a Master of Public Health (1981) at Yale University, School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, Shadur worked as Project Director for the Yale University School of Medicine. From 1982-89, she worked as the Senior Management Consultant for American Practice Management, Inc. in New York, New York and Walnut Creek, California. She was Director of Surgical and Anesthesia Services (1989-93) in Mason City, Iowa, and Vice President of Nursing and Operations (1993-94) at Universal Pediatric Services, Inc, in Urbandale, Iowa.
From 1994-2000, she was Director of Organizational Innovation for Quorum Health Resources, L.L.C. in Brentwood, Tennessee, where she partnered with medical center board, executive leadership, middle management and medical staff to re-engineering business processes. In 2000, she became Principal of Shadur & Shadur Simple Solutions, L.L.C., Des Moines, Iowa, and for five years, helped organizations define and achieve a new level of performance through benchmarking and process redesign.
In addition, Shadur was president (2004-06) of the Project Elijah Foundation where she directed development of the organization to raise funds for child victims of domestic abuse, neglect and abandonment.
Shadur is active in community organizations and has served on governing boards of Orchard Place, a child guidance center, Des Moines Metro Opera, Temple B’nai Jeshuran, Project Elijah Foundation, and Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa. She and her husband are private collectors of contemporary art.