Heart 'n Home Hospice & Palliative Care

Name

Heart 'n Home Hospice & Palliative Care

Legal name

LHC Group, Inc.

Website

https://gohospice.com

Company type

Public

Founded year

2004

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Hospice & Palliative Care Services

NAICS

Home Health Care Services (62161), Continuing Care Retirement Communities and Assisted Living Facilities for the Elderly (62331)

SIC

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

akta.pro primary industry

Home Hospice (Routine Home Care) (HLADAHAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Home Hospice Agencies (HLAFAEAC), In-Home Hospice Physician / Nurse Practitioner Visits (HSABAFAM), Community-Based Palliative Care (Home-Based Non-Hospice) (HLADAHAH), End-of-Life 24/7 In-Home Care (Hospice Support) (HSABAHAG)

Keywords

• Hospice care services
• Palliative care services
• Home health services
• Post-acute care
• End-of-life care

Headquarters

HQ city

Fruitland

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Heart 'n Home Hospice & Palliative Care provides hospice, palliative, home health, and facility-based care services to individuals and families facing serious illness and end-of-life needs. Services are delivered through local care locations, with access via phone-based care coordination and a network of healthcare professional referrals. The company's differentiation rests on a holistic, people-centered philosophy emphasizing quality of life beyond the medical condition.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Hospice Care

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• American Red CrossminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLHC Group participates in the American Red Cross Annual Disaster Giving Program, demonstrating commitment to disaster preparedness and community resilience through charitable giving and disaster response support.
• Healthstream (Pathways)minorOthers
• Plan Source (Benefits)minorOthers

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Amedisys: Large publicly traded home health and hospice operator with overlapping service lines and similar referral-driven go-to-market. Direct competitor to LHC Group and its Heart 'n Home brand across multiple states.
• Addus HomeCare: Public home and community-based services provider delivering personal care, home health, and hospice — directly overlapping with LHC Group's hospice and home-care offerings and comparable referral-driven business model.
• Gentiva Hospice: National hospice operator (formerly Kindred at Home) providing routine home hospice, palliative, and facility-based hospice services — directly comparable to Heart 'n Home's hospice and palliative focus.
• Aveanna Healthcare: Public home health, hospice, and private-duty nursing operator with a similar multi-state, multi-service-line model and comparable payer mix to LHC Group.
• Chemed Corporation (VITAS Healthcare): VITAS Healthcare is the largest US hospice operator and a direct competitor in routine home hospice, palliative, and facility-based hospice care — overlapping most directly with Heart 'n Home's hospice core.
• BrightSpring Health Services: Public home and community-based health services provider spanning hospice, home health, and pharmacy — directly comparable to LHC Group's diversified post-acute service portfolio.
• Enhabit: Pure-play home health and hospice provider spun off from Encompass Health; competes head-to-head with LHC Group for referral share, clinical staff, and Medicare/Medicare Advantage contracts.
• Pennant Group: Public home health, hospice, and senior living operator with a comparable operating model and similar referral-driven growth approach to LHC Group.

Broad incumbents

• Encompass Health: Major post-acute and rehabilitation provider whose former home-health/hospice segment was spun off as Enhabit; broadly comparable in scale, payer mix, and care-setting breadth to LHC Group's multi-line model.
• UnitedHealth Group / Optum: Parent ecosystem of LHC Group (post-Optum acquisition); as the controlling managed-care platform, Optum shapes the payer, referral, and contracting environment in which Heart 'n Home operates.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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