Co-Founder and COO

Etondi Ndifon, RN, BSN, is an End-of-Life Doula and Hospice & Palliative Care Specialist who serves as the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Harmony Passage. With more than 15 years of nursing experience, including over a decade dedicated to hospice and end-of-life care across the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia regions, Etondi has built her career on the belief that every person, at every stage of life, deserves to be seen, heard, and cared for with dignity, compassion, and excellence.

As both a clinical and compliance leader, she has helped healthcare agencies achieve high standards of quality care through her strong leadership, clinical expertise, and commitment to patient-centered practices. Throughout her career, Etondi has walked alongside hundreds of patients and families during some of life’s most profound and vulnerable moments, providing support that ranges from basic care needs to highly complex clinical care while enhancing patient safety, comfort, and quality of life.

For Etondi, end-of-life care is more than a profession—it is a calling. She believes that death is not a medical failure, but a sacred passage deserving of the same skill, compassion, and intentional care given to every major milestone in life. Her approach is grounded in clinical excellence, emotional presence, and an unwavering commitment to preserving dignity and quality of life in every remaining moment.

Etondi also understands that exceptional care is never delivered in isolation. She believes the strongest outcomes emerge when patients, families, caregivers, and healthcare teams are educated, empowered, and supported. This conviction has led her to invest deeply in mentoring and training family caregivers, nurses, aides, volunteers, and care teams who stand beside patients every day. Her teaching style is practical, compassionate, and rooted in real-world experience—focused not only on clinical protocols, but also on the importance of presence, listening, empathy, and meaningful human connection.

Her expertise enables her to guide patients and families through difficult conversations, complex care decisions, and emotionally challenging transitions with clarity, grace, and compassion.

Recognizing that dying well requires more than medical care alone, Etondi expanded her practice by becoming an End-of-Life Doula. In this role, she provides non-medical support, emotional guidance, companionship, and a calming presence for patients and families navigating the uncertainties that accompany life’s final chapter. As an End-of-Life Doula, she helps bridge the spaces between clinical visits—holding space for grief, easing fear, and helping families find peace, comfort, and meaning during times of uncertainty.

Above all, this expanded role reflects who Etondi has always been at her core: a compassionate advocate who shows up fully—not only as a healthcare professional, but as a steady and caring presence for every individual and family she serves.