Home Health Agency Analytics Information

Founded in 2015 by Cordt Kassner, Warren Hebert, and Duane Blackwell, Home Health Analytics is an information-sharing research organization whose mission is to improve home health utilization and access to quality home-based care through analysis of Medicare and other national datasets.

 Our Staff 

Cordt T. Kassner, PhD

CEO

Dr. Kassner is a hospice and end-of-life healthcare industry analyst.  He incorporated Hospice Analytics in 2008 to merge Medicare datasets in unique ways, and with other national databases, to better understand and explain how healthcare is delivered to those near the end of life.  Working with co-founders Duane Blackwell and Warren Hebert, Home Health Agency Analytics was founded in 2015.  Cordt earned degrees in Social Work (BS, Illinois State University), Counseling (MA, Denver Conservative Baptist Seminary), and Health & Behavioral Sciences (PhD, University of Colorado-Denver).

Cordt's prior work experience includes serving as CEO of the Colorado Center for Hospice & Palliative Care, and clinical and research responsibilities at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center.  While co-chairing the University of Colorado Hospital Ethics Committee, Cordt founded the Colorado Healthcare Ethics Forum, serving as president for 5 years and a board member for 11 years.  He has served as a "translator" of information between administration/clinical healthcare professionals and researchers/statisticians for over 20 years.  Cordt serves and has served on numerous local, state, and national boards and committees and has facilitated over 150 workshops and presentations.  Cordt has served on the faculty of the University of Colorado-Denver Health Sciences Center since 1992, and more recently has been invited to serve on the faculty at Duke University.  He can be reached directly by phone 719-209-1237 and email CKassner@HomeHealthAnalytics.com. 

Home Health Agency Analytics can be reached @ 719-209-1237.