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WHY OWNERSHIP MATTERS

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At In Good Company Podcast, we believe that the best care begins with understanding. Our podcast serves as a bridge connecting healthcare professionals and families with the insights they need to navigate home health, hospice, and personal care with dignity.

We are looking for experts, family caregivers, and innovators who can help our listeners take a proactive approach to aging. If you have stories or expertise regarding clear medical insight, thoughtful planning, or protecting independence and quality of life, we want to hear from you. After submitting the form below, our executive producer or hosts will review your topic.

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We are looking forward to our conversation! Drop some basic information in the form and We’ll generate a conversation outline for us to use that we will send your way before we record. If you´d like to see how the conversation flows, check out our existing episodes!

Guest Technical Requirements

Audio Quality

To ensure our listeners can focus on your message, please use a high-quality headset or a dedicated microphone. Clear audio is essential for the sensitive nature of our topics.

Video Presence

We record our episodes for both audio (Spotify/Apple) and video (YouTube). Please ensure your camera is at eye level and you are well-lit from the front.

Background/Setting

Please record in a quiet, private space. A professional office or a clean, neutral home environment works best to maintain the dignified tone of our discussions.

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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