Vistacare

What Vistacare does

VistaCare is described in the input firmographics as a leading provider of hospice services in the United States, founded in 1995 and headquartered in Atlanta. The firm was publicly traded on NASDAQ under the ticker VSTA and historically operated at meaningful scale, with a reported workforce of 5,001–10,000 employees consistent with a multi-site clinical delivery footprint. The company is now listed as delisted from NASDAQ, and its corporate domain vistacare.com is currently parked and listed for sale by a domain broker, indicating the business no longer maintains an independent operating web presence. The only named executive in the input is Richard R. Slager, identified as Chief Executive Officer.

The available source material is materially incomplete: there are no disclosed revenue figures, no product or service detail beyond the hospice-services characterization, no customer logos or segment data, no pricing model, no partnership or acquisition history, no AI/technology stack, and no current headcount trend. The underlying company-data JSON blocks explicitly note that the domain landing page offers no commercial content and that revenue, operating status, ownership, and other firmographic fields cannot be determined from a parked domain. As a result, any current operational or financial state of VistaCare as an independent entity cannot be reliably established from the supplied data alone.

The most defensible read of the evidence is that VistaCare was once a sizable, publicly traded US hospice operator headquartered in Atlanta, that it has since been delisted from public markets, and that its independent corporate identity has been effectively wound down as signaled by the domain-for-sale listing. The input does not contain sufficient information to characterize the underlying cause of the delisting, any successor entity, or whether clinical operations continue under a parent or rebranded subsidiary.

Name

Vistacare

Website

https://vistacare.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1995

Headcount range

5,001–10,000 employees

Short description

VistaCare was a US hospice services provider founded in 1995 and headquartered in Atlanta, historically operating at scale (5,001–10,000 employees) before being delisted from NASDAQ; its domain is currently listed for sale.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Hospice Care Services

NAICS

Home Health Care Services (62161), Home Health Care Services (621610), Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities (624120)

SIC

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

akta.pro primary industry

Home Hospice Agencies (HLAFAEAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Hospice Care in Nursing Facilities (SNF/NH Hospice) (HLADAHAD), End-of-Life 24/7 In-Home Care (Hospice Support) (HSABAHAG), Hospice Care in Assisted Living / Residential Care Facilities (HLADAHAE), In-Home Hospice Physician / Nurse Practitioner Visits (HSABAFAM)

Keywords

• Hospice services
• End-of-life care
• Palliative care
• Home health services
• Patient care

Headquarters

HQ city

Atlanta

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

Core offering

Vistacare is a leading provider of hospice services in the United States. The company delivers end-of-life care to patients, focused on comfort, pain management, and supportive services for terminally ill individuals and their families. VistaCare operates as a multi-site healthcare services organization headquartered in Atlanta, with a workforce of 5,001-10,000 employees.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Vistacare Hospice Services End-of-life hospice care services delivered to terminally ill patients across the United States, focused on comfort, palliative support, and family care. The service is delivered by a clinical workforce of 5,001-10,000 employees across multiple sites, headquartered in Atlanta.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves2 records

Direct peers

• Amedisys: Amedisys is a leading home health and hospice operator with national reach, serving a similar patient population via Medicare-certified hospice and home health agencies.
• Gentiva Health Services: Gentiva is one of the largest U.S. hospice and home health providers and directly acquired VistaCare in 2009, making it the most direct comparable in scale, service line, and operating model.
• Aveanna Healthcare: Aveanna provides home health, hospice, and private-duty nursing with a national footprint, comparable in service mix and patient demographics to VistaCare.
• LHC Group: LHC Group provides home health, hospice, and home- and community-based services across the U.S., overlapping with VistaCare's hospice focus and Medicare-eligible patient base.
• Chemed Corporation (VITAS Healthcare): VITAS Healthcare, a subsidiary of Chemed, is the largest U.S. hospice provider, offering end-of-life care across home, facility, and inpatient settings directly comparable to VistaCare's hospice services.
• Kindred at Home (Humana): Kindred at Home operated one of the largest U.S. hospice and home health networks and was acquired by Humana, competing head-to-head with VistaCare for hospice referrals and Medicare share.
• Addus HomeCare: Addus offers personal care, hospice, and home health services, with a hospice segment that competes for the same end-of-life patient population as VistaCare.

Broad incumbents

• Encompass Health: Encompass Health combines inpatient rehabilitation with home health and hospice services, providing a broader care continuum that overlaps with VistaCare's hospice-and-home-health positioning.
• Brookdale Senior Living: Brookdale is a large senior living operator that provides on-site hospice and palliative care coordination, making it a partial adjacent comparable for hospice delivered in residential settings.

Emerging players

• Pennant Group: Pennant operates home health, hospice, and senior living operations in the U.S., competing in similar referral channels and end-of-life care segments but at a smaller scale.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/vistacareboston

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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