Kosciusko Home Care and Hospice

What Kosciusko Home Care and Hospice does

Kosciusko Home Care and Hospice was a nonprofit, community-based home health and hospice provider founded in 1976 in Kosciusko County, Indiana, by eight local nurses, adding hospice services to its home care offering in 1982. Effective March 1, 2023, the organization combined with Stillwater Hospice (a Fort Wayne, Indiana-based nonprofit tracing back to 1888 as the Ladies' Relief Union) and now operates as part of Stillwater Hospice, serving 12 counties in northern Indiana with offices in Berne, Fort Wayne, Marion, and Warsaw. The combined entity provides hospice care, palliative care, chronic disease management, specialty programs, inpatient care at the Hospice Home (Northeast Indiana's only free-standing inpatient hospice unit, opened in 2001), and a layer of grief and therapeutic services including individual counseling, support groups, complementary grief programming, music therapy, and massage therapy. The combined organization has served over 10,000 patients at the Hospice Home alone and operates a 24/7 nursing and patient referral line with access via phone, web, and Facebook.

The business model is a nonprofit, community-based clinical services provider primarily reimbursed through the Medicare Hospice Benefit (Stillwater Hospice was the third agency in Indiana to receive this certification in 1984), supplemented by private pay, commercial insurance, and philanthropic donations. GTM is decentralized referral-driven: hospital partnerships in the 12-county region, the 24/7 phone referral line, community outreach events (Water Lily Women's Luncheon, Holiday Memorial Service), newsletters, and a content/blog presence on stillwater-hospice.org. Customer segments are individual patients with serious or terminal illness and their families, plus a primary persona of chronically ill adults requiring palliative or end-of-life care; services are delivered in-home, in the inpatient Hospice Home facility, and via community-based grief support. No AI/ML, proprietary software, or digital health technology is in evidence; the technology footprint consists of the organizational website, email newsletter infrastructure, Facebook page, and standard telephony.

Name

Kosciusko Home Care and Hospice

Legal name

Kosciusko Home Care and Hospice

Website

https://koshomecare.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1976

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Kosciusko Home Care and Hospice is a nonprofit, community-based hospice and palliative care provider in northern Indiana, founded in 1976 and now operating as part of Stillwater Hospice following their March 2023 combination, serving patients across 12 counties via in-home care, the Hospice Home inpatient unit, and grief support services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Hospice and Palliative Care Services

NAICS

Home Health Care Services (6216), Home Health Care Services (62161), Home Health Care Services (621610), Nursing and Residential Care Facilities (623)

SIC

Services-Home Health Care Services (8082), Services-Nursing & Personal Care Facilities (8050), Services-Misc Health & Allied Services, Nec (8090)

akta.pro primary industry

Home Hospice Agencies (HLAFAEAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Home Hospice (Routine Home Care) (HLADAHAA), Residential Hospice / Hospice House (Facility-Based) (HLADAHAC), In-Home Hospice Nursing Visits (RN/LPN) (HSABAFAL), In-Home Hospice Physician / Nurse Practitioner Visits (HSABAFAM), End-of-Life 24/7 In-Home Care (Hospice Support) (HSABAHAG)

Keywords

• Hospice care
• Palliative care
• Grief support
• Chronic disease management
• Inpatient hospice

Headquarters

HQ city

Warsaw

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Others

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Kosciusko Home Care and Hospice is a nonprofit, community-based hospice and palliative care organization providing end-of-life medical care, palliative symptom management, chronic disease support, and bereavement services across 12 counties in northern Indiana. Now operating as part of Stillwater Hospice (effective March 1, 2023), the combined entity delivers in-home hospice and palliative care as well as inpatient services at Hospice Home, northeast Indiana's only free-standing inpatient hospice unit located in Fort Wayne.

Product overview

Kosciusko Home Care and Hospice operates as part of Stillwater Hospice, a nonprofit hospice and palliative care organization providing a unified portfolio of end-of-life care services. The combined organization offers core clinical services (Hospice Care, Palliative Care, Chronic Disease Management, Specialty Programs) alongside dedicated support facilities (Hospice Home, northeast Indiana's only free-standing inpatient hospice unit). A complementary layer of grief and therapeutic services rounds out the portfolio — including Grief Support, Individual Counseling, Support Groups, Complementary Grief Programming, Music Therapy, and Massage Therapy. The Kosciusko Home Care and Hospice brand continues as a sub-brand representing home-based care services in Kosciusko County. Together these services serve 12 counties in northern Indiana.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Hospice Care End-of-life care services provided to patients with terminal illnesses, including medical, emotional, and spiritual support for both patients and families in northern Indiana.
• Palliative Care

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 10,000 patients served at Hospice Home since 2001, ranging from infancy to 104 years of age

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Kosciusko Home Care and HospicecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 March 2023Effective March 1, 2023, Kosciusko Home Care and Hospice combined with Stillwater Hospice as one organization. Both organizations began with groups of women coming together to serve the seriously ill. Kosciusko Home Care and Hospice started in 1976 when eight local nurses came together to support patients needing home care, adding hospice services in 1982. The partnership ensures Kosciusko County continues to have local community members serving as hospice caregivers while maintaining nonprofit community-based services.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Amedisys: Public home health and hospice operator providing skilled home health, palliative care, and hospice services to patients in their homes. Directly comparable in both product line (home hospice) and payer mix (Medicare), with inpatient and community service variations.
• LHC Group: Large national provider of home health, hospice, palliative, and home-based care services, now part of UnitedHealth/Optum. Comparable as a Medicare-driven home hospice agency offering skilled nursing, palliative, and chronic care to homebound and elderly patients.
• CenterWell Hospice (Humana): Humana's home-focused care division (formerly Kindred at Home) offering hospice and palliative care to seniors, primarily Medicare Advantage and traditional Medicare patients. Directly comparable hospice agency with community-based delivery and a focus on aging-in-place.
• Compassus: National hospice, palliative, and home health provider delivering routine home hospice, palliative, and bereavement support services in multiple states. Closely aligned operating model to Stillwater/Kosciusko, with overlapping services (grief support, palliative, chronic disease management).
• Gentiva: Major US hospice operator (spun from Kindred at Home/CenterWell) providing routine home hospice, palliative care, and community-based services with Medicare reimbursement as the core payer. Directly comparable model, focused hospice agency competing for referrals in similar end-of-life care categories.

Broad incumbents

• Encompass Health: National operator of inpatient rehabilitation hospitals that also operates a home health and hospice segment. Comparable as a clinical operator with hospice capabilities and a Medicare-centric referral base, though broader focus dilutes direct hospice exposure.
• VITAS Healthcare: Largest US hospice provider and a division of Chemed Corp, operating across multiple states with both routine home care and inpatient hospice units. Highly comparable as a hospice agency serving terminally ill patients under the Medicare Hospice Benefit, though at national scale rather than regional community-based.

Regional players

• Hospice of Michigan: Large, community-based nonprofit hospice serving patients across Michigan with a similar combination of home hospice, inpatient facilities, grief support, and complementary therapies. Highly comparable nonprofit hospice model with broad regional coverage and mission-based services.
• Ohio's Hospice: Community-based, nonprofit hospice organization formed through partnerships among multiple Ohio providers, offering home hospice, inpatient hospice, palliative care, and grief support. Closely comparable nonprofit multi-county hospice model; geographic overlap is minimal but operating model is highly similar.
• Agrace HospiceCare: Wisconsin-based nonprofit hospice and palliative care provider offering home hospice, inpatient hospice, palliative, and grief support across multiple counties. Closely comparable Midwest nonprofit hospice agency of similar community-based scale and service breadth.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/koshch

Compliance1 record

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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