Vitas Hospice, the largest for-profit hospice chain in the United States, and its owner, Chemed Corporation, agreed to pay $75 million to settle allegations that Vitas Hospice submitted false claims ...

FORT MYERS, Fla., Dec. 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Residents of Lee County now have access to dedicated end-of-life care at the new VITAS Healthcare Inpatient Hospice Unit at Lee Memorial Hospital, ...

As Mother's Day approaches, a holiday often centered on celebration and reunions, many people experience heightened feelings ...

PORT ST. LUCIE— A 16-bed hospice facility could be coming to Tradition by 2022. VITAS Healthcare — the largest hospice provider in the nation and a subsidiary of ChemMed Corp. — plans to buy roughly ...

To accelerate data entry, VITAS Health equipped its clinicians with iPhones and iPads, giving them more time to care for bed-ridden patients. The mobilization paves the way for a greater, cloud-first ...

Chemed Corporation (“Chemed”) (NYSE: CHE) today announced that its (“VITAS”) subsidiary has acquired the operating assets of Houston-based Solari Hospice Care effective April 1, 2013. In Houston, ...

The nation’s largest hospice provider, South Florida-based Vitas, bilked Medicare by charging for people who were not terminally ill and sending “crisis care” bills for patients that nurses said were ...

To the editor: Thank you for your exposé on hospice care. People are surprised when I tell them that the biggest mistake I made in managing care for my elderly uncle for four years before his death ...

Orange County's only freestanding end-of-life care facility expects to serve 300+ patients each year. The VITAS Hospice House began accepting referrals in June 2023 and is expected to serve 300+ ...

Federal officials are calling a $75 million settlement with South Florida-based hospice provider Vitas the industry’s biggest ever under the False Claims Act, resolving allegations the company ...

Vitas Healthcare, the largest U.S. for‑profit hospice chain, disclosed a cyberattack that compromised the personal and medical data of 319,177 current and former patients. The breach, traced to a ...