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Compassion-driven hospice care by industry-leading experts
Compassion-driven hospice care by industry-leading experts
VITAS® Healthcare, the nation’s leading provider of end-of-life care, specializes in patient-centered solutions, technology, and research that delivers compassionate hospice and palliative care to patients with advanced illnesses seeking quality of life at the end of life.
A driving force for advancement within the expanding hospice provider community, VITAS has built a reputation based on its ongoing embrace of patient care innovation and its legacy of advocacy for Medicare coverage, improved access to care, and cutting-edge technology. Its hospice solutions deliver results on two fronts by:
The concept of an interdisciplinary hospice care team—physician, nurse, aide, social worker, chaplain, bereavement specialist, and volunteer—remains at the heart of our end-of-life care model.
This continued and sustained success is supplemented by initiatives that modernize hospice care and influence thinking about how other healthcare specialties can be delivered in patient and family’s preferred setting of care, and in accordance with their wishes and values.
These initiatives include:
In 2018, VITAS celebrated its 40th anniversary with a special ceremony at the Freedom Tower at Miami Dade College. The iconic Miami landmark was illuminated purple to honor VITAS’ four decades of advancing the American hospice movement and compassionate care for hospice patients and families.
The undisputed influence of VITAS within the healthcare industry continues to grow, especially as it searches for and develops care models that balance modern medicine’s capabilities with the basic human desire of seriously ill patients to live as well as they can with dignity and compassion, all the way to the end of life.
FOUNDED IN MIAMI, LEADING THE NATION
While much has changed in the hospice profession since 1978, four VITAS Values remain sources of inspiration for its employees:
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