Great Lakes Home Health and Hospice

Providing Superior Quality Health Care in the Home

Great Lakes Home Health and HospiceIn 1994, Cheri Lyn Deary saw a great need in the state of Michigan. Having returned to Jackson to care for an ailing family member, she recognized a significant lack of quality, comprehensive home health care options available. As a nurse, she knew how to provide expert care for patients and families, while the Fortune 500 business experience of her husband, William, proved invaluable to the founding of Great Lakes Home Health and Hospice.

With her passion for superior quality health care in her community, good business practices and raising industry standards, William and Cheri Lyn set out to provide the absolute highest quality health care in the home for the Jackson community—a mission that still stands.

Today, Great Lakes Home Health and Hospice has grown to become one of the largest independent provider of home health and hospice care in the Midwest, employing over six hundred individuals in nine locations across Michigan and Indiana, and featuring a growing fleet of industry-unique, company-branded NURSECARs™.

Great Lakes Home Health and Hospice treats individuals with the firm belief that patients shouldn’t have to surrender their daily freedoms to receive comprehensive, technologically advanced health care, providing compassionate, professional medical and hospice care in the comfort, security and privacy of familiar surroundings.

Home Health Informational Video

Watch our video to learn about health care in the home and how it can help you remain comfortably in your own home while recovering from an illness, undergoing treatment for a disability or rehabilitating a surgery.

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Company Timeline

2009 2010 2008
  • Inc. 5000
  • Grand Rapids office Medicare-certified
  • Expansion to the entire state of Michigan
2007 2006
  • Receive Michigan Award of Excellence for Improving Care in the Home Health Setting, second consecutive year
  • Livonia office Medicare-certified
  • Battle Creek office Medicare-certified
2005
2004 2003 2002 2001
  • Medicare finance audit: 0% recovery
  • Jackson Chamber of Commerce Small Business Person of the Year
2000
  • Expansion to 19 Medicare-certified counties
  • East Lansing home health office Medicare-certified
1999 1998
  • Expansion to 11 Medicare-certified counties
1997
  • Management Services Division established
  • JCAHO-accredited
1996
  • Durable medical equipment (DMERC) approved
  • Adrian office Medicare-certified
1995
  • Jackson home health office Medicare-certified
1994