Meet Our Physicians

At Covenant Hospice, our physicians' main focus and priority is on pain control and symptom management. But pain control is not the only thing that Covenant Hospice's physicians do for our patients. We also work with nurses, social workers, home health aides, grief counselors, chaplains, and volunteers to see that every need of patients and the family gets attention.

• Jonathan Southworth, MD

• Kate Thomas, DO (Branch Medial Director)
• Margaret Myers, MD
• Cynthia Op'tholt, ARNP

• Melanie Nicholls, MD (Branch Medical Director)
• Sam Sawyer, MD
• John Simmons, MD
• Kari Wood, ARNP

• Steven Spence, MD (Branch Medical Director)
• Mark Akerson, MD
• Kristen Floyd, ARNP
• Toby Murray, ARNP
• Rita Pruett, ARNP

• James M. Smith, DO – (Branch Medical Director)
• C. David Smith, MD – Jay
• Rachel Goodloe, ARNP
• Freddie Thronson, ARNP

• Edward Carlos, MD (Branch Medical Director)
• Thomasina Sharpe, MD
• Cynthia Op'tholt, ARNP

• Harvey Hsiang, MD (Branch Medial Director - Niceville North)
• Ming-Chen Chang, MD (Branch Medial Director - Niceville South)
• Edward Fletcher, MD

• Peter Sylvester, MD (Branch Medial Director)
• Jigish Patel, MD
• Marta Prupas, ARNP

• Herbert Gannon, MD (Branch Medical Director)
• Andrea Hackel, MD
• Paula Montgomery, MD
• Jan Fillmore, ARNP
• Betty Brannon, ARNP
• Denise Mabry, ARNP

• Jean Murphy, MD (Branch Medical Director)
• Andrew Scanameo, MD
• Paul Robinson, MD (PIC/TFK Medical Director)
• Karin D'Amico, ARNP
• Mary Elizabeth Poston, ARNP