Hospice of North Idaho hires a medical director

Hospice of North Idaho has a new medical director. The nonprofit has hired Dr. Dianna Kubacz, and its staff page now lists her in the job.

WHO SHE IS

According to the hospice's announcement, as reported by the Coeur d'Alene Press:

- Kubacz is a board-certified family physician with more than a decade in family medicine, hospice care and community health.
- She earned her medical degree in South Carolina and did her family medicine residency in Wichita, Kansas.
- She and her husband, who is also a physician, spent several years working in community health and mission hospitals in Central and West Africa.
- Most recently she was a hospice physician and medical director at a nonprofit hospice in South Carolina.
- She moved to North Idaho with her husband and five children in early 2026.

WHY HOSPICE

Kubacz has said her grandmother, one of South Carolina's early home health nurses, is why she went into medicine. Her grandmother was in hospice care during her last weeks while Kubacz was starting her first hospice leadership job, so she was learning the work as a doctor and living it as a family member at the same time.

WHAT A MEDICAL DIRECTOR DOES

In a hospice, the medical director is the physician who oversees patient care with the nurses, social workers and the rest of the team.

ABOUT THE HOSPICE

- Hospice of North Idaho is a nonprofit and has served the area since 1981.
- Its executive director is Shawna Cauley, a registered nurse.
- Its office is at 2290 W. Prairie Ave. The phone is 208-772-7994.

HOW WE KNOW

Kubacz's title is confirmed on the hospice's own staff page. Her background is from the hospice's announcement as reported by the Press. We have not interviewed her.