Home Health & Hospice Week

After weeks of very public controversy over a potential sale to a for-profit entity, nonprofit Alive Hospice Inc. in Nashville has announced it will remain a nonprofit.

“This decision follows several months of working with third-party advisors to explore the industry and local dynamics that will impact Alive’s operations in the years ahead, from reimbursement changes to labor shortages and rising costs to privatization and consolidation across healthcare,” Alive’s Board says in a statement shared with the press.

“We’ve made this decision to be independent and not-for-profit,” Vicki Estrin, chair of Alive’s Board of Directors, tells The Tennessean. “We’re not going back through this again. The decision stands.”

Critics may now pursue a change of Alive's leadership, given the lack of transparency throughout the process, they say.