Connecticut Hospice back on sound financial footing; many credit local business owner Barbara Pearce for turnaround

Connecticut Hospice back on sound financial footing; many credit local business owner Barbara Pearce for turnaround 
CTPost, Branford, CT; by Mark Zaretsky; 7/12/25 
Connecticut Hospice, the nation's first hospice facility, appears to finally be out of the financial woods now — but that wasn't the case a few years ago. And many people outside its inner circle may not know just how precarious its situation was and how a well-known business owner played a key role in the turnaround. Barbara Pearce, CEO of Pearce Real Estate, put her life and her role in the real estate company her late father founded on hold for six years to take over at Hospice and make hard decisions to steer it back to health. Hospice has new leadership now. New President and CEO Sylvia Allais is working to move Connecticut Hospice forward.