About Caris

Caris believes all patients and their family members deserve the highest level of care and consideration during this vulnerable time.

Our nursing professionals, staff, and volunteers are committed to our core values of compassion, accountability, respect, integrity, and service.

Caris has 32 offices in Tennessee, Virginia, Missouri, South Carolina, and Georgia. We are honored to have cared for more than 80,000 patients and their family members. Our team has an unwavering commitment to provide a grace and peace to families on their end-of-life journey.

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Vision

We are committed to being your world class hospice.

Mission

Hospice care with grace.

Values

Compassion
Accountability
Respect
Integrity
Service

The Better Way

Each Caris employee and volunteer is trained through The Better Way program. Through this program, they learn a set of promises we uphold with each patient during their time under our care. These promises serve as our commitment to always doing what is right by our patients and their loved ones. Each promise is fulfilled during every patient visit to ensure the needs and wishes of our patients and their loved ones are honored.

Greet you with a smile and make eye contact.
Use your name always and explain the purpose of my visit
Address your needs with a sense of urgency

Recognitions

CHAP & Age-Friendly Care Accreditation

This accreditation, offered in addition to their standard accreditation, helps agencies integrate the “4Ms” framework (What Matters, Medication, Mentation, and Mobility) into their care delivery, ensuring that older adults receive safe and effective care that aligns with their goals and values.

SHPBest™ Hospice Top 5% Memphis and Milan offices

The annual SHPBest™ award program was created to acknowledge hospice providers that consistently provide high quality service to families and caregivers of patients receiving hospice care.

SHPBest Hospice™ Top 20% Superior Performer

Big Stone Gap, Abingdon, Cookeville, Crossville, and Murfreesboro offices have all been recognized by Strategic Healthcare Programs (SHP) as a “Superior Performer” for achieving an overall caregiver and family satisfaction score that ranked in the top 20% of all eligible SHP clients for the 2023 calendar year.

ANCC NCPD

Organizations with the ANCC NCPD Accreditation marks promote the highest standards for nursing and are leaders in quality and nursing excellence.

Great Place to Work

Caris Healthcare is part of the National Healthcare service family. We participate in the Great Place to Work survey each year and are proud that our employees feel inspired by this work.

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Leadership

Our leadership team has served patients and families in need of care for decades. Each office has the support of both regional experts and an executive team who are hands on in navigating any challenges that may arise.

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Equitable Access

We stand against racism, bias, cultural insensitivities, and injustice. What’s important to our patients is important to us.

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Recognitions

At Caris Healthcare, we are proud of our team and the accomplishments we earn together.

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