Eden Health is expanding in the Pacific Northwest, having received a certificate of need to launch a hospice program in the State of Washington. The new location will be branded as Eden Hospice at Whatcom County, LLC., which recently achieved deemed status Medicare-certification from the Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC).
Historically a home health company, Eden is making expansion of its hospice and palliative care services a priority for Eden for the coming year. The company also recently launched hospice and palliative care operations in the eastern Idaho market.
“Our home health and home care agencies have had the pleasure of serving Whatcom for many years now, and we are beyond thrilled to add hospice and a robust palliative care program to our, now complete, continuum of care,” said Jamie Brown, vice president of Eden Health. “As an accredited organization, we are held to a much higher quality standard and are proud to live up to that each and every day, treating patients as loved family members.”
Eden Health is a subsidiary of EmpRes Healthcare, which provides management and consulting services to rehabilitation and post-acute care centers, assisted and independent living communities and home health, home care, palliative care, and hospice agencies in nine Western states.
Parent company EmpPres Healthcare is 100% employee owned. EmPres offers an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP). Employees are fully vested in the plan after six years of working for the company.
Eden’s hospice program also provides advance care planning services, assistance with accessing community resources to address social determinants of health, help with funeral and memorial planning and disease process education for patients and families.
Hospice utilization among Medicare decedents in Washington state reached 46% in 2018, just below the national average of 50.7%, according to the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO).
“Our goal is to keep healthcare local to ensure that each community is represented and strategies are implemented specifically to meet the needs of the residents in the communities that we are so honored to serve,” said Brown.
Companies featured in this article:
