J. Brad Hunter

Since Mr. Hunter founded Care Hospice’s first location in 2008, Care has grown via a focus on underpenetrated, highly populated secondary and tertiary markets. Care has a strict top-down culture of compliance pervasive across the entire organization. Its robust front-end admissions screening and intense recertification scrutiny ensure hospice eligibility and reduces compliance risk. With an efficient operating model, fully integrated and scalable infrastructure, a diverse footprint, and an experienced, growth-oriented executive team, Care is positioned to continue capitalizing on the ongoing wave of hospice industry consolidation. Care has developed an excellent reputation among referral sources by providing the highest quality of service via a disciplined, objective, and metrics-driven approach to measuring clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction.

Mr. Hunter, a 20+ year hospice industry veteran, founded Hospice Care of Louisiana in 1997 and Community Hospices of America in 2003, which was renamed Compassus in 2008. He then founded a Virginia-based hospice agency, which became the foundation for Care Hospice. Mr. Hunter has served as a Director of the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and has been the President or Director of several state hospice organizations. Additionally, he has chaired NHPCO’s Regulatory and Audit committees, and vice-chaired or was a member of NHPCO’s Finance, Public Policy, Legislative, and Governance committees. Early in his career he worked with Ernst & Young, LLP after graduating from the University of Florida.