Kara Health

What Kara Health does

Kara Health is a California-based hospice and palliative care provider founded in 2017 that operates exclusively through joint-venture (JV) partnerships with major health systems. Under this model, the company manages day-to-day operations and clinical care for hospice programs while health system partners provide the underlying facilities, branding, and local referral networks. Its only two completed JVs to date are with Palomar Health System (established 2021) and Loma Linda University Health (launched April 2026, branded Loma Linda University Hospice, serving the Inland Empire region including Riverside and San Bernardino counties). The founding team consists of Devan Walia (co-founder & CEO), Ravnyssa Verma (co-founder & clinical lead), and Taj Walia (co-founder & VP of Business Development).

Kara Health's product surface is narrow and operationally focused rather than technology-focused. The documented product set comprises Hospice Care Services and JV Management Services. Core technology, proprietary features, integrations, AI/ML modalities, and certifications are all blank in the available data, and no software platform or patents have been disclosed — despite the firm's short description referencing home care, telehealth, and remote monitoring themes. The company generates revenue through managed-services arrangements under its JV contracts, with downstream hospice billing flowing through standard Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance channels; specific pricing and revenue splits are not publicly disclosed.

Go-to-market is enterprise field sales targeting major health systems for new JV formation. The company reports a pipeline of 10 additional JVs in development and has stated intentions to expand geographically beyond California. With 11-50 employees and only two completed JVs, Kara Health is at an early operational scale relative to its stated ambition, and its growth thesis rests almost entirely on converting the 10-JV pipeline into signed health-system partnerships.

Name

Kara Health

Legal name

Kara Health

Website

https://kara.health

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Hospice and Palliative Care Services

NAICS

Other Ambulatory Health Care Services (6219), Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities (62412)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000), Services-Home Health Care Services (8082)

akta.pro primary industry

Home Hospice Agencies (HLAFAEAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Community-Based Palliative Care (Home-Based Non-Hospice) (HLADAHAH)

Keywords

• Hospice care services
• Palliative care
• Joint venture management
• Home health services
• Clinical operations

Headquarters

HQ city

Beverly Hills

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Hospice JV Management: Kara Health generates revenue by managing day-to-day operations and clinical care for hospice facilities under joint venture arrangements with health systems. The company serves as the operational partner while the health system provides the facility and branding.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Core offering

Kara Health provides hospice and palliative care services through joint venture partnerships with major health systems. The company manages day-to-day clinical care and operations for hospice programs while the health system partner provides the facility and branding, enabling health systems to offer hospice services without building in-house capabilities.

Product overview

Kara Health operates as a hospice and palliative care provider offering a JV-only growth strategy. The company enters into joint venture partnerships with major health systems, where Kara Health manages day-to-day operations and clinical care. Their primary offerings include hospice care services and JV management services, serving regions such as the Inland Empire through branded partnerships like Loma Linda University Hospice.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Hospice Care Services

Named customers1 record

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Loma Linda University Health (LLUH)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 April 2026Joint venture branded as Loma Linda University Hospice, serving the Inland Empire region including Riverside and San Bernardino counties. Kara Health manages day-to-day operations and clinical care. This is the company's second partnership with a major health system following the 2021 Palomar Health JV.
• Palomar Health SystemcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2021First joint venture partnership established in 2021 with Palomar Health System. Kara Health manages hospice and palliative care operations under this JV structure. This partnership served as the company's initial major health system relationship before the Loma Linda University Health JV.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Bristol Hospice: Multi-state hospice operator that has scaled by partnering with health systems and hospitals using a JV / de novo site model — directly comparable to Kara Health's JV-only growth strategy with US provider partners.
• Compassus: National hospice and palliative care provider that operates programs in joint-venture and management arrangements with hospitals and health systems — comparable operating and partnership model to Kara Health.
• St. Croix Hospice: Regional/multi-state hospice operator built via partnerships with hospitals, health systems and communities — directly comparable operator profile and growth trajectory to Kara Health.

Broad incumbents

• Gentiva Hospice: Large national hospice and palliative-care chain; broadly competes with Kara in hospice JV/operating space, with deeper resources and broader geographic footprint than Kara.
• VITAS Healthcare (Chemed): Largest US hospice provider, including inpatient and home-based hospice programs across many states — a broad incumbent that Kara Health competes against for referrals and health-system partnerships.
• LHC Group (Optum/UnitedHealth): Home health and hospice operator that grew extensively through JV partnerships with hospitals and health systems — provides a publicly validated reference for the kind of asset-light JV scaling Kara Health is pursuing.
• Amedisys (UnitedHealth/Optum): National home health and hospice operator with JV relationships to health systems; comparable service mix and partner-based distribution model to Kara Health.
• CenterWell Hospice (Humana): Humana-owned home health and hospice arm that has scaled hospice through payer-aligned JV and partner models — relevant comparable for a health-system JV hospice operator.

Emerging players

• Three Oaks Hospice: Emerging multi-state hospice platform formed by sponsor-backed roll-ups of community hospices; comparable early/scale-up stage and JV-friendly posture to Kara Health.
• Traditions Health: Hospice and home health provider that has scaled via acquisitions and partnership structures with health systems — analogous growth-via-partnerships playbook to Kara Health's JV-only model.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/KaraHealth

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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