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About Alleviate

Built by clinicians who stand by their work.

Most hospice organizations are either warm and forgettable or corporate and cold. Alleviate was built to be clinically sophisticated and deeply human at once, because the families and clinicians who depend on us should never have to choose between the two.

Accredited by CHAP — Community Health Accreditation Partner
Hospice Medical Director Certification Board (HMDCB)
Member — California Hospice and Palliative Care Association (CHAPCA)
Physician-owned & run
Southern California
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A physician-led company, on purpose.

Alleviate was built from the ground up through a physician-led roll-up in Southern California, assembling hospice and palliative care under one operating standard rather than one more brand on a billboard.

The founding conviction is simple: hospice is real medicine, and it should be run by people who treat it that way. When a board-certified physician is accountable for the standard of care, symptom management is sharper, goals-of-care conversations are honest, and families are met by a team that chose this work.

Why physician-led matters here

In a category under tightening CMS scrutiny and steady consolidation, the operators worth trusting are the ones who engage with quality and compliance directly instead of defensively. Alleviate is designed to be the company still standing when lesser operators are not; not by being the loudest, but by being the most accountable.

That accountability is not a slogan. It shows up as a reachable medical director, documentation that closes the loop with referring clinicians, and a refusal to make claims we have not verified. Specific quality and outcome measures are published here as they are verified to CMS, CDPH, and payer standards.Verified metrics · D2

Human, without apology

The rigor is one half of the promise. The other half is that a patient is a person, not a case; that a family in the hardest week of their life is met with plain language and genuine attention, never a sales pitch. Holding both at once is rare in healthcare and almost nonexistent in hospice. That rarity is the whole point.

The people accountable for the standard.

A leadership team where the physician thinks like an operator and the operator thinks like a mission commander.

Full leadership & bios →

From our founder
We built Alleviate on clinical excellence, honesty, and deep compassion — and we hold ourselves accountable to all three, every single day.
Alan Kaplan, MD · CEO & Co-Founder

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