Journey Home

What Journey Home does

Journey Home is a privately incorporated 501(c)(3) nonprofit hospice care home located in Greece, New York, at the corner of Vintage and Long Pond Road. Founded in 1999, the organization provides end-of-life care to up to two residents at a time within a residential home setting, offering physical, emotional, and spiritual care to individuals with terminal illnesses and a prognosis of three months or less. Since inception, Journey Home has served over 500 residents and does not discriminate based on age, race, religion, gender, or illness type, including HIV+/AIDS.

The care model is built on trained volunteers guided by nursing staff and collaborating hospice agency teams, with Joseph Finetti, MD serving as medical consultant. All prospective residents must be referred by one of two certified hospice agencies — UR Medicine Hospice or Lifetime Care Hospice — and are then interviewed by nursing staff to determine fit. The home is governed by an all-volunteer board and led by Director Tracey Jagla.

Journey Home provides all services free of charge and does not accept third-party insurance. The organization is funded entirely by donations, memorials, and fundraisers (such as the $9.94 campaign referenced on its website). Supporting offerings include a garden walk on the property and the Tapestry newsletter, with marketing limited to a basic website (journeyhomegreece.org), a Facebook page, and community fundraising events.

Name

Journey Home

Legal name

Journey Home Inc

Website

https://journeyhomegreece.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Journey Home is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit hospice care home in Greece, New York, providing free end-of-life care to up to two terminally ill residents at a time through volunteer-staffed services since 1999.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Residential Hospice Care

NAICS

Other Residential Care Facilities (62399), Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities (624120)

SIC

Services-Nursing & Personal Care Facilities (8050), Services-Home Health Care Services (8082)

akta.pro primary industry

Residential Hospice / Hospice House (Facility-Based) (HLADAHAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Home Hospice Agencies (HLAFAEAC)

Keywords

• Hospice care services
• End-of-life care
• Residential hospice
• Palliative care support
• Volunteer caregiving

Headquarters

HQ city

Rochester

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Others

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Journey Home is a nonprofit hospice care home offering physical, emotional, and spiritual care to terminally ill individuals in a residential setting. The home serves up to two residents at a time, with care provided free of charge by trained volunteers, nursing staff, and an all-volunteer board supported by a medical consultant. Residents are referred by certified hospice agencies (UR Medicine Hospice or Lifetime Care Hospice) and must have a terminal illness with a prognosis of three months or less.

Product overview

Journey Home is a privately incorporated 501-c3 hospice care home offering a single, unified residential care service. The organization provides end-of-life care to two residents at a time in a home setting, with care delivered by trained volunteers, nursing staff, and an all-volunteer board with medical consultant Joseph Finetti, MD. Residents are referred by UR Medicine Hospice or Lifetime Care Hospice and must have a terminal illness with a prognosis of three months or less. The organization has served over 500 residents since 1999 and provides services at no charge, surviving solely on donations, memorials, and fundraisers. Supporting services include a garden walk and the Tapestry newsletter. The organization does not provide technology products or software services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Hospice Residential Care

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

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.

• UR Medicine HospicecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOne of two certified hospice agencies that refer residents to Journey Home. Prospective residents are referred by hospice agencies for end-of-life care services.
• Lifetime Care HospicecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOne of two certified hospice agencies that refer residents to Journey Home. Serves as a key referral partner for the hospice care home.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights1 record

Others

• National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization: The leading US industry association for hospice and palliative care providers — adjacent ecosystem participant that supports, advocates for, and disseminates best practices among organizations like Journey Home.
• UR Medicine Hospice: A certified hospice agency affiliated with the University of Rochester Medical Center and one of Journey Home's two referral partners — adjacent ecosystem participant that supplies resident referrals rather than competing for them.
• Lifetime Care Hospice: A certified home hospice agency serving the Rochester/Western NY region and Journey Home's second key referral partner — supplies resident referrals and clinical coordination rather than competing for residential hospice services.

Direct peers

• Hospeace House: A volunteer-driven, nonprofit comfort care home in Naples, NY serving terminally ill residents at no charge — operates on essentially the same "Homes for the Dying" model as Journey Home in upstate New York.
• Aurora House: A 501(c)(3) comfort care home in Endicott, NY providing free end-of-life care in a residential setting staffed largely by trained volunteers — directly comparable facility-based hospice home model in the same New York region.
• Francis House: A nonprofit residential comfort care home in Syracuse, NY offering free end-of-life care to terminally ill individuals and their families, run largely by volunteers — closely mirrors Journey Home's model and central NY footprint.
• Matt's Place House of Compassion: A volunteer-staffed comfort care home in Gresham, Oregon offering free end-of-life care in a residential setting — operates on the same "Comfort Care Home" model as Journey Home.
• Zen Hospice Project: A San Francisco-based nonprofit providing volunteer-driven residential hospice and end-of-life care, with a well-known guest house model — directly comparable philosophy and volunteer-centric delivery model.

Broad incumbents

• VITAS Healthcare: The largest US hospice provider, offering home and facility-based hospice services across many states — broad incumbent in the same end-of-life care category but operating at vastly greater scale and through a paid-staff model rather than volunteer-driven comfort homes.
• Gentiva Hospice: A large national hospice provider offering routine home hospice and continuous care services — broad incumbent in the same industry but operating a clinical, paid-staff model rather than a volunteer comfort home.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/journeyhome994.org

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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