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Live Better with Buena Vida Hospice

Compassion, Integrity, Excellence

Care providers dedicated to your comfort

Buena Vida Hospice is a hospice and palliative care company profoundly advancing the well-being and honoring the dignity of those we serve. By educating our community and discrediting the taboo or stigma surrounding hospice, we hope to make the world a better place one family at a time.

Our company culture is rooted in three core values – compassion, integrity, and excellence. We are dedicated to leading the transformation of health care delivery by continuously and measurably improving the quality of person-centered, physician-driven, team-based care.

Dr. Francisco Daniel Medrano, MD

Medical Director

Dr. Medrano was born in Mexico City and grew up in Houston. His first language is Spanish and he frequented his hometown during summer vacations as a child. He attended the DeBakey High School for Health Professions then matriculated at Rice University for his undergraduate studies. He attended Temple School of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA, and completed his combined Internal Medicine and Pediatric residency at the University of Texas at Medical Branch at Galveston.

Dr. Medrano spent his first 8 years post-residency as a hospitalist and attended patients in multiple settings including hospitals, long term acute care facilities, nursing homes, and skilled nursing facilities. It is during this time in his career that he was introduced to and gained a strong interest in palliative and end of life care. He has been an active hospice advocate, leader, and medical director since 2007. He considers end-of-life and hospice care a professional and personal interest and is excited to be a part of the Buena Vida family.

Dr. Manish Parikh, MD

Medical Director

Dr. Parikh was born in North Carolina and grew up in Houston. He graduated from Alief Elsik High School and then attended the University of Texas in Austin for his undergraduate studies. He then attended Texas A&M Medical School and eventually completed his Internal Medicine and Pediatric residency at the University of Texas in Houston.

After his training, Dr. Parikh stayed in Houston and practiced as a hospitalist for almost 10 years. Currently, he has been practicing as a primary care physician in Houston since 2012. While taking care of patients in the hospital as well as in rehabilitation centers, nursing homes, and in the primary care setting, he has seen the importance of palliative and end of life care. He has also been caring for hospice patients since 2005 and is honored to be part of Buena Vida Hospice as a medical director.