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Is Private Pay Home Care Cheaper Than Nursing Homes?

Is Private Pay Home Care Cheaper Than Nursing Homes

When it comes to caring for an elderly or disabled loved one, many families face a big question: Is private pay home care cheaper than nursing homes? This is an important question because choosing the right type of care can affect both the quality of life for your family member and your financial situation. In […]

How to Pick the Best Home Health Care in Springfield

How to pick the best home health care in Springfield

Some choices in life require more than just a quick search and a phone call. When you’re deciding who will care for someone in your home, it’s one of those moments where slowing down really matters. You want to know that you’re bringing someone in who understands, respects, and supports what your loved one needs—not […]

How Hospice Care Can Transform the End-of-Life Experience

How Hospice Care Can Transform the End-of-Life Experience

When someone we love is facing the final stage of life, it’s normal to feel scared, confused, or even helpless. Many people don’t know what to do or where to turn. That’s where hospice care comes in. Hospice care offers more than just medical help—it brings comfort, dignity, and support to patients and their families […]

Compassionate Home Health Care Services: Your Trusted Guide to Wellness

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Health challenges are often unexpected but a natural part of life. When facing health concerns, many people feel uncomfortable leaving the comfort of their homes. This is where home healthcare services come in as a valuable alternative to traditional hospital care. These services provide individuals with professional care in a familiar setting, prioritizing their comfort, […]

The Compassionate Path: Understanding the Importance of Hospice Care

The Compassionate Path_ Understanding the Importance of Hospice Care

Facing the end of life is a challenging journey for the individual and their loved ones. Hospice care steps in to make this journey as comfortable and dignified as possible, providing support when it’s needed most. Based in Ozark, MO, our hospice care offers compassionate services tailored to the needs of each patient and their […]

The Complex Landscape of Medicare Advantage Reform

Medicare Advantage’s Rapid Growth and Its Implications Medicare Advantage has seen rapid growth in recent years, now covering nearly half of all U.S. seniors. The program offers lower premiums, additional benefits, and perks like gym memberships, making it an attractive option for many. However, this growth has also brought significant challenges, including widespread fraud, overbilling, […]

Advocates Push for Accountability in Medicare Advantage

The History and Challenges of Medicare Advantage Medicare Advantage, introduced as a privatized alternative to traditional Medicare, has grown rapidly, now covering nearly half of all U.S. seniors. Despite its popularity, the program has faced significant challenges, including fraud, overbilling, and care denials. For years, advocates have raised concerns about these issues, but their efforts […]

Medicare Advantage: Profits Over Patient Care

The Financial Model Behind Medicare Advantage Medicare Advantage has been promoted as a cost-effective alternative to traditional Medicare, offering lower premiums and additional perks. However, the program’s financial model incentivizes insurers to prioritize profits over patient care. Operating on a capitated payment system, insurers receive fixed payments per enrollee, adjusted for risk, which encourages “upcoding” […]

The Influence of Insurance Lobbyists on Medicare Advantage

Proposed Reforms and Industry Pushback In early 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed reforms to address fraud and abuse within Medicare Advantage, focusing on curbing “upcoding” and reducing denials of care. These changes aimed to protect taxpayer dollars and improve patient care. However, the insurance industry quickly rallied against these reforms, […]

The Pharmaceutical Power Play: How Insurance Giants are Dominating the Drug Market

In recent years, the largest U.S. health insurers have extended their influence into the pharmaceutical industry by acquiring pharmacy benefit management (PBM) companies, significantly altering the healthcare landscape. PBMs act as intermediaries between drug manufacturers, pharmacies, and health insurers, playing a crucial role in determining drug prices and coverage. Major mergers, such as CVS’s acquisition […]

Why Ownership Matters:

At Haven Home Health and Hospice, we are proud to be the last locally-owned, independent, and clinician-led provider of home-based care in our region. While that may sound like a simple fact, it’s actually a defining difference—one that matters deeply to the quality of care our patients receive every day. In recent years, private equity firms and large corporate healthcare chains have rapidly bought out home health and hospice providers across the country, including right here in our community. What we’ve seen in the aftermath is troubling: rapid turnover of staff, shrinking time spent with patients, and decisions driven more by profit margins than by compassion, dignity, and clinical excellence. 

When ownership shifts from caregivers to corporations, priorities shift too. 

We believe healthcare should never be treated like a commodity. That’s why we’ve remained committed to local, clinician-led ownership—because we answer to patients, not shareholders. Our leadership is hands-on, involved, and invested in every life we touch. We believe that meaningful care takes time, intention, and heart—and it starts with the people who make the decisions. As owners who are also licensed clinicians, we understand the weight of the responsibility we carry. Our patients are not numbers in a spreadsheet. They are parents, grandparents, neighbors, and friends. And we believe they deserve the kind of care we’d want for our own families. We will continue to stand against the corporatization of healthcare, and we invite you to stand with us. Whether you’re a patient, a referral partner, or a member of the community, your trust makes it possible for us to preserve something rare and essential in today’s healthcare system: personalized, human-centered care. Because in the end, ownership isn’t just about who signs the papers—it’s about who shows up when it matters most.

– John Ray, Founder

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