By the Bay Health, Mission Hospice & Home Care, Hope Hospice to Complete Triple Merger

By the Bay Health, Mission Hospice & Home Care, Hope Hospice to Complete Triple Merger

Hospice News

November 30, 2023

Three independent providers—By the Bay Health, Mission Hospice & Home Care and Hope Hospice—will merge, becoming the largest nonprofit hospice network in northern California. By the Bay and Mission in September announced their plans to merge. In the intervening months, Hope Hospice also joined the transaction. The organizations indicated that joining forces would make them stronger competitors in the marketplace as well as improve access to care in the communities they serve. The merger will also bolster the combined company’s recruitment and retention efforts, according to By the Bay Health CEO Skelly Wingard. ... Each of the three organizations is a pioneer in its own right. By the Bay Health was the first hospice to operate in its home state. Mission was the first to launch in California’s San Mateo County, and Hope was among the earliest nonprofits to serve the East Bay Tri-Valley region near San Francisco. The path forward will include integration of the three organizations’ operations, as well as configuring their leadership team, staffing and boards. ... Post-merger, the combined organization will have the capacity to serve more than 1,100 patients per day, with more than 500 community volunteers and 600 multidisciplinary staff who provide hospice, home health, palliative care, transitional care, pediatric care, bereavement counseling and dementia support. The organization will also include Mission House—the only residential hospice house in the region.

[Editor’s Note: To read the news release from the three providers, click here.]