Offering Overview-MTH 082315

Mike Nicholas Founder

Mike Nicholas has a BS in Accounting from Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri. He worked for over 15 years in the accounting field. Mike also has some computer programming experience gained as a part of his accounting and project duties. However, his accounting career left Mike feeling unfulfilled. He wanted and needed to make a direct difference in people’s lives. Mike believes that people need to have that desire in order to be a part of a hospice team. People that want to make a difference in hospice patient’s lives will be ready for anything and be happy to do what they can for patients at this critical time in their patient’s lives. As a result of this desire to make a difference Mike applied to and was accepted into his local nursing school. He has been a Registered Nurse since 2005. After working as an RN for a few years, Mike was recruited into a local hospice, Hospice Care of Kansas at the time, which turned out to be a perfect fit in every way.

Mike saw an opportunity there to bring improvements to the industry through better management. As they say, the rest is history! Mike founded National Hospice, Inc. (d.b.a. Promises Kept Hospice) in May 2007, and sold it in 2011 as an asset sale. It grew to an average daily census (or # of patients under care each day) of 60 patients which would have made it one of the largest hospices in Denver out of about 24 listed there in 2013. They were able to achieve that growth with no marketing staff and in a city about one-fifth the size of Denver. Together with his wife, Patty, Mike founded and opened their second hospice, Promises Kept, Inc., in 2012 (also known as Promises Kept Hospice). It was sold in 2014 as a Medicare licensed hospice to a regional home health company Mike and Patty Nicholas have been married since 1982. Together they have raised two daughters and a son.

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