Hospice Opportunities in Arkansas?

Wow! Again, it's been about 7 months since the last post - I think I like this Allnurses thing!
And for Ichooselove - No, I haven't left for home yet. I'm still, perhaps foolishly, hopeful that things will turn around at least enough for me to able to sell my house vs. walk away from it. So we're doing some home improvements while we wait.
RKMark has sure given us some great info to work off of when we do go though - Thank you so much for that. Pity about your good boss dying and the changes that have gone in the organizations that you've worked for since. I don't work in administration, but out here, from what I've seen, many of the people who do are former nurses, so I try to believe that all this bottom-line mentality is just what it takes for the organization to survive anymore in order to continue to do the good work that they do.
To update you on job opportunities out here, again, you might want to wait. While the housing deals are still fabulous for a buyer - the job market? Not so much. There may still be a nursing shortage elsewhere, but not around here - at least not right now. From living here before, you know our elderly population waxes and wanes with the seasons. And with this economy I think many of them don't feel like they can afford the snowbird life, so we've had a lot of low-census days since April. I have a friend who just did refresher hours to get back into nursing - due to the economy - and she has literally put in over a 100 applications at the local hospitals. She has read that due to the economy a lot of "retired" nurses are doing the same and that too has put pressure on the nursing job market. Even the hospitals have even been converting some of their hospital beds to hospice beds in order to fill beds. We'll just have to see how things go in the fall. Thanks again!