HJBR Mar-Apr 2019

Healthcare Journal of baton rouge I  MAR / APR 2019 29 A fter successful stints in athletics and the pharmaceutical industry, Patrick T. Mitchell began pursuing better models of delivering health care. Twenty years later, The Carpenter Health Network is a leader throughout the Gulf Coast region in providing a continuum of care that meets patients’ changing needs over time through nursing, home care, hospice, rehabilitation care, and more. In 2002, he opened St. Joseph Hospice with the mission of providing peace, comfort, and dignity to those facing terminal illness. Named for the patron saint of a peaceful death, St. Joseph Hospice is nondenominational and never denies care, regardless of patients’ ability to pay. In 2006, he formed STAT Home Health, leading to Louisiana’s first AIM Palliative Home Health Program to help seriously ill patients who lack coordinated hospital, home health, and hospice care. In 2013, he created Homedica to improve the patient experience and reduce hospitalizations by enabling physicians and mid-level care providers to make house calls.