# Compassus

> Compassus is a national home-based care company headquartered in Brentwood, Tennessee, delivering hospice, palliative care, home health and home infusion services to patients wherever they call home. Jointly owned by TowerBrook Capital Partners and the Catholic health system Ascension, Compassus operates across roughly 30 states with about 8,000 employees and has built its growth around joint ventures with major health systems - including OhioHealth, Providence and Ascension - so that hospitals can extend care into the home under a shared brand while Compassus runs the clinical operations.

- **Founded:** 1979
- **Headquarters:** Brentwood, Tennessee, United States
- **Founders:** James A. Deal (Founder / early executive (Compassus lineage))
- **Team size:** ~8,000 employees
- **Products:** Hospice Care, Palliative Care, Home Health, Home Infusion Therapy, Health System Joint Ventures
- **Notable:** Grew into a roughly 30-state home-based care platform spanning hospice, palliative, home health and home infusion., Acquired by TowerBrook Capital Partners and Ascension in a reported ~$1 billion transaction in 2019., Named to Newsweek's America's Greatest Workplaces.

## Products & services

- **Hospice Care** — Interdisciplinary end-of-life care and comfort-focused support for patients with a terminal prognosis, delivered in the home or facility, plus bereavement and grief support for families.
- **Palliative Care** — Community- and home-based specialty care focused on relief from the symptoms and stress of serious illness, provided alongside curative treatment.
- **Home Health** — Skilled nursing, therapy and aide services delivered at home to help patients recover, manage chronic conditions and avoid hospital readmissions.
- **Home Infusion Therapy** — In-home administration of IV medications, hydration and specialty infusion services as an alternative to hospital or clinic settings.
- **Health System Joint Ventures** — Co-branded partnerships (e.g. OhioHealth at Home, Providence at Home with Compassus) in which Compassus manages home-based care operations for hospital systems.

## Achievements

- Grew into a roughly 30-state home-based care platform spanning hospice, palliative, home health and home infusion.
- Acquired by TowerBrook Capital Partners and Ascension in a reported ~$1 billion transaction in 2019.
- Named to Newsweek's America's Greatest Workplaces.
- Became Ascension's exclusive preferred provider of hospice services.
- Executed marquee health-system joint ventures with OhioHealth (2024) and Providence (2024-2025).

## Latest updates

- **2025-10** — Providence and Compassus finalized the second phase of their home-based care joint venture in California, adding home health, personal care, hospice and community-based palliative locations.
- **2025-03** — Providence and Compassus finalized the first phase of their joint venture in Alaska, Texas and Washington.
- **2024-10** — Compassus and Providence announced a joint venture, 'Providence at Home with Compassus,' spanning dozens of home health and hospice locations across the West.
- **2024-09** — Compassus finalized its 'OhioHealth at Home in partnership with Compassus' venture for home health and hospice in Ohio.
- **2022-01** — Compassus named a new CEO and doubled down on positioning its services for the value-based care market.

## Links

- Website: https://compassus.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/compassus-hospice
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/compassus
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Compassus/

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Last updated: 2026-07-06