Locally Owned by Clinicians Who Care

Staff Spotlight: Kylee Kirkwood

Another staff member that we want to recognize for their hard work is Kylee Kirkwood! Kylee is the Clinical Director in our Haven Hospice branch. She works with the nurses and staff members of Haven Hospice to support them and ensure their patients get the best care possible. Kylee exemplifies Haven’s core values: Do what […]

Staff Spotlight: Keith Wyrick

  We want to recognize one of our staff members, Keith Wyrick for all his hard work and how he embodies our core values. Keith works in our home health branch as a Business Support Specialist. He works with intake and scheduling, helping our clinicians coordinate so that our patients get the care they need. […]

Staff Spotlight: Larisa David

We want to recognize one of our staff for their exceptional work in embodying our core values! Larisa David, who works for our branch, Haven Home Care, has been committed to our core value “Do What is Right, Not What is Easy” in order to provide the best care possible to her clients. Her director, […]

Winter Health for Seniors

Winter can be a challenge for everyone’s mental and physical health, but seniors especially need more support during the cold months. There are things we can do to help the seniors in our lives stay safe, healthy, and happy during these next few weeks of winter. Physical Health and Safety Winter can put stress on […]

Volunteer With Hospice

If you’re looking for ways to give back, consider becoming a hospice volunteer. Hospice volunteers can help provide comfort and companionship to patients on hospice and their families. When you volunteer, you can bring your unique talents to help others. Is Hospice Volunteering Right For Me? Hospice volunteering can be incredibly fulfilling, but it can […]

Home Safety Assessments

If you or your loved one has recently needed surgery, suffered a heart attack, or experienced another major medical event, a home safety assessment is an important part of returning home. Home safety assessments are one of the many services that we offer through our home health company and an incredibly important one for seniors […]

10 Years of Care: John Ray

Our final interview in our 10th anniversary series is with our President, John Ray! He sat down with us to talk about what Haven was like at the beginning and what he sees for Haven’s future.

10 Years of Care: Tim Floyd

Tim Floyd joined our team in 2016 and is currently our Director of Business Development. Tim was kind enough to talk with us about what his time as part of the Haven family has been like.   What was Haven like when you started? I started with Haven back in 2016. We were in an […]

10 Years of Care: Brooke Sanders

Brooke Sanders joined us in 2016 and is currently working as a PTA for our home health branch. She was kind enough to talk with us about her experience as a part of the Haven team over the years. What was Haven like when you started? Haven has always been patient orientated and they expect […]

10 Years of Care: Brenda Pollard

Brenda started working with Haven in 2015. She has worked for both our home health and hospice branches and is currently a hospice RN. She sat down with us and told us about her time so far as part of the Haven family.   What was Haven like when you started? It was on the […]

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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