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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 is right, not what is easy, Working in the same direction, and Accountable and committed.

Her supervisor, Kim, had this to say about Kylee:

“Kylee Kirkwood is dedicated to all of these and more.  Kylee works diligently to make sure work loads are evenly distributed.  She checks in and makes sure her staff are uplifted and encouraged.  This last weekend I had a text from Kylee, I knew from the text she must be out with a patient, but this was Sunday.  I thought maybe something happened and the on call nurse needed help.  But she was out doing baths.

We were struggling with CNA help and Kylee had put all she could on the Nurses and felt that the best way to help was for her to go out on Sunday to get ahead on baths.  Kylee never complains, but she is always working to find a solution or a way to make the care for patients seamless.  She did not want to have a patient go without a bath.  I am blessed beyond measure to have Kylee by my side.”

Congratulations Kylee! Thank you so much for all your amazing work.

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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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