VITAS Healthcare

Specialties

When it’s time to focus on the patient, not the disease, it’s time for VITAS Healthcare. VITAS consults on and cares for fragile patients, managing care transitions from hospital to home, from curative to palliative, from chronic to end-​stage. We primarily care for patients in their homes.

We also in our inpatient hospice units as well as hospitals, nursing homes and assisted living communities/​residential care facilities for the elderly. If curative treatments are no longer effective, call VITAS today to bring pain and symptom management, holistic therapies and a team of hospice professionals to the patient, ensuring comfort and dignity near the end of life.

History

Established in 1978.

VITAS Healthcare®, a pioneer and leader in the hospice movement since 1978, is the nation’s largest provider of end-​of-​life care. Our name is derived from the Latin word for «lives» and symbolizes the VITAS mission: to preserve the quality of life for those who have a limited time to live.

Headquartered in Miami, Florida, VITAS operates 50 hospice programs in 16 states and the District of Columbia.

VITAS has enjoyed dynamic growth since its founding as a volunteer organization by a United Methodist minister and an oncology nurse. Today, VITAS employs 11,000 professionals who care for terminally ill patients daily-​primarily in the patients’ homes, but also in the company’s inpatient hospice units as well as in hospitals, nursing homes and assisted living communities/​residential care facilities. VITAS team members include registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, home health aides, physicians, social workers, chaplains and other caregiving professionals.