Company

Chemed (VITAS Healthcare)

Type: public
Ticker: CHE · NYSE
Market value: $8B

Chemed (VITAS Healthcare) is public, listed as CHE on NYSE, in Healthcare and pharmaceuticals.

What it sells: VITAS hospice, Roto-Rooter.

In the language of this map it serves 2 solutions — Hospice and Palliative care — which between them relieve 2 human frictions.

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Sells

HospiceDecline
Palliative careDecline

Human frictions it ultimately relieves

Reached through the solutions above, never directly.

The last illness has begunDecline
Die without pain, and where you wanted toDeath

Trends favouring it

Ageing populations and the longevity economyAlready large; the question is how it resolves, not whether it happens.
The reinvention of dyingReal but not yet at scale. The effects described are expected rather than observed.
Private equity and consolidation in healthcareAlready large; the question is how it resolves, not whether it happens.