A West Des Moines man is being sued for establishing a hospice program that allegedly competes with his former employer for increasingly scarce healthcare workers.
Abode Healthcare Inc., an affiliate of BrightSpring Health Services, is suing Rick W. Breuss III of Sacred Encounter Hospice of Central Iowa in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa.
In the lawsuit, Abode describes itself as a leading provider of home health and hospice care that provides home-delivered end-of-life care for patients with a terminal illness, with “significant facilities” in the Des Moines area…