At VITAS Innovative Hospice Care^®, we believe our position as the nation’s largest provider of end-of-life care comes with important responsibilities. One of the four VITAS Values that define our company says it best: “I am proud to make a difference.” VITAS has been making a difference in end-of-life care through leadership, charitable care and education since our founding in 1978.

Corporate social responsibility begins with responsible governance. Like most founding members of the hospice movement in the United States, VITAS began as a non-profit organization. But we quickly learned that non-profit status didn’t allow us to access the capital needed to keep pace with the growing number of terminally ill patients in the United States.

Shifting to for-profit status has allowed VITAS to extend its innovative model of care to patients and communities who previously had no access to the benefits of hospice.

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