It doesn’t take long with the team at Ennoble Care to understand what underpins the company’s success. Every conversation about patients, care delivery, and operations connects back to a shared focus on providing quality care.
Ennoble Care primarily serves medically frail patients in need of primary, palliative, or hospice care. Patients are often homebound and navigating the final, most fragile stage of life, including seniors with mobility limitations, high clinical complexity, and increasing difficulty accessing office-based care.
Today, Norwest is proud to share our investment in Ennoble Care, co-led with Partners Group. We are backing Ennoble Care’s home-based platform for primary, palliative, and hospice care, with a proven model that combines access, quality, and affordability. With this financing, Ennoble Care is positioned to advance its mission through disciplined, sustainable growth and collaboration with community-based clinical organizations serving similar patients.
Today, Norwest is proud to share our investment in Ennoble Care, backing its home-based platform for primary, palliative, and hospice care, with a proven model that combines access, quality, and affordability.
This investment builds on our experience supporting complex, home-based care models for high-acuity populations, including our work with Monogram Health, where we’ve seen the impact of aligning care delivery, incentives, and patient needs.
A New Vision for Community-Based Primary and Palliative Care
Long before any formal process began, Ennoble Care kept surfacing in conversations about home‑based primary and palliative care. But it wasn’t until early 2023 that we were introduced to Founder and CEO Kush Das, and saw firsthand the depth of what he was building. Kush is one of those leaders who sees the healthcare system from every angle. After founding an Accountable Care Organization in 2019 and merging it with Ennoble Care in 2021, he focused on understanding house-call operational best practices and layering on hospice care to build a more longitudinal view of the patient journey.
Ennoble Care’s operating model is complex, but Kush understands the market well, with a background as an emergency medical services (EMS) provider, healthcare lawyer, and strategy consultant. Kush cites his EMS experiences as a foundation for Ennoble Care’s approach: “In EMS, we often take frail, underserved patients to the hospital because they cannot get access to reliable primary and palliative care,” he told us. “A longitudinal in-home primary and palliative care model helps patients remain comfortably at home while saving Medicare significantly.”
“In EMS, we often take frail, underserved patients to the hospital because they cannot get access to reliable primary and palliative care. A longitudinal in-home primary and palliative care model helps patients remain comfortably at home while saving Medicare significantly.”
— Kush Das, CEO, Ennoble Care
Kush has thoughtfully positioned the company to serve both fee-for-service (FFS) and value-based care (VBC) models, delivering the same quality of care to all patients, and proving that FFS does not have to be at odds with VBC. Ennoble Care’s structure is designed to be complementary, with each component reinforcing the others. From in-home visits to hospice care, every touchpoint builds and strengthens overall outcomes, driving cumulative success.
We believe Ennoble Care will continue to play an important role in the shift toward value‑based care for government programs like Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)’s Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP). Of the 70 million Medicare beneficiaries in the U.S., only about 12.6 million are currently served through MSSP. Very few providers are moving fee‑for‑service lives into CMS programs, and even fewer are doing so through a home‑based model given the financial challenges of taking on downside risk and the logistical challenges of delivering care in the home. Ennoble Care is one of the exceptions, proving that quality, cost, and access don’t have to be tradeoffs, as it delivers Medicare savings each year.
Very few providers are moving fee‑for‑service lives into CMS programs, and even fewer are doing so through a home‑based model. Ennoble Care is one of the exceptions, proving that quality, cost, and access don’t have to be tradeoffs, as proven by demonstrable savings to Medicare each year.
A Leadership Team Delivering Exceptional Care at Scale
Kush has strengthened Ennoble Care’s leadership bench with operators who understand both the complexity and the privilege of caring for this population.
COO Molly Viscardi joined Ennoble Care in 2021, bringing the perspective of a registered nurse who has spent her career advocating for patients. Molly started her career as a hospital nurse and went on to get her Ph.D. in Nursing from the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied clinical workforce designs that most improved patient outcomes. She then joined McKinsey & Company’s healthcare practice before coming to Ennoble Care. Her influence is unmistakable as Ennoble Care’s model is clinically rigorous, yet deeply humane.
CTO Jonathan “JT” Taylor joined Ennoble Care in 2022, bringing his experiences as a health-tech founder with over 20 years at the helm of multiple successful health-tech startups, including most recently a telemedicine provider that scaled through the COVID-19 pandemic. JT developed Ennoble Care’s proprietary and purpose-built electronic health records (EHR) and practice management software, Office Anywhere, which is critical to Ennoble Care’s model and sustainable performance.
Chief Accountable Care Officer (CACO) Marc Berg helped start the first of Ennoble’s ACOs with Kush in 2019 and joined full-time to lead Ennoble’s progression into full-risk across multiple captive ACOs. Marc was trained as a physician in Europe, completed his PhD in value-based care in the 1990s, and was a professor of value-based care in Europe before coming to the U.S. as partner first at KPMG and then McKinsey & Company.
In a labor‑intensive sector where burnout is common and advanced analytics remains fragmented, Ennoble Care combines high-caliber leadership and technology to support continuity and lasting clinician-patient engagement. For patients in their final years of life, it’s the foundation of trust.
In a labor‑intensive sector where burnout is common and advanced analytics remains fragmented, Ennoble Care combines high-caliber leadership and technology to support continuity and lasting clinician-patient engagement. For patients in their final years of life, it’s the foundation of trust.
Turning Value-Based Care into Reality at Home
The U.S. healthcare system is under immense pressure to improve outcomes while managing cost and access. Today, Ennoble Care serves roughly 35,000 primary, palliative, and hospice care patients across 12 states. The company’s program enables thousands of families to keep their loved ones at home, supported and well cared for — and will only grow in importance as more Americans age into Medicare.
We’re honored to join Kush, Molly, JT, Marc, and the entire Ennoble Care team as they continue to reshape what exceptional home‑based care looks like. We’re also excited to partner with a strong syndicate led by Kush, who remains Chairman of the Board and the largest investor, along with existing investors Peterson Partners, Health Velocity, and Trilogy, bringing together complementary expertise across healthcare services, long-term company building, and value-based care.
Our team believes deeply in the impact Ennoble Care will make on thousands of lives, and we’re eager to lean in as the company continues to grow.
