More Than 40 Years of Choosing VITAS

From the early days of handwritten intake forms to today’s use of virtual reality, the latest in a series of videos shows how VITAS Healthcare has been a leader in innovating patient care over the last four decades.

Throughout its more than 40-year history, VITAS employees have watched the company expand into new markets, embrace technology, expand supportive services to meet ever-changing patient needs, and create disease-specific care protocols.

What was it like to provide hospice care to patients who were dying from an unknown disease with no known treatments?

A National Historic Landmark was illuminated purple to honor VITAS’ four decades of advancing the American hospice hospice movement.

In the 1970s, Hugh Westbrook and Esther Colliflower were teachers at a community college in South Florida. They went on to start the organization that would become VITAS Healthcare. Learn how they did it.