- Columbia, MO 652013050 I-70 Dr SESuite 100
- Phone Number
- 573-443-8360
- Fax Number
- 573-499-4601
Primary Services:
Hospice CareCounties Served:
Adair, Audrain, Boone, Callaway(portion), Chariton (portion), Cole, Cooper, Howard, Linn, Macon, Moniteau, Montgomery, Morgan, Pettis, Monroe, Saline (southeast portion)

Hospice in the Columbia Area Since 1994
We understand that choosing hospice care can be a difficult and emotional decision. Talk with your family members, your doctors and others you trust. If you have questions, call us to talk about options, including how hospice works, Medicare benefits and eligibility.
Benefits Include:
- Available 24 hours a day / 7 days a week
- Pain and symptom control centered on patient and family goals
- Care coordinated with your doctor
- Home health aides
- Medical equipment, medication and personal care supplies
- Spiritual counseling
- Volunteer services
- Bereavement grief support
- We Honor Veterans; Level 4 certification
- Care provided wherever you call home, whether in a hospital, nursing home, assisted living or your personal residence

Hospice is a fully covered Medicare benefit.
Coverage includes nurses, other caregivers, medicines, supplies and equipment, with no out-of-pocket expenses for the hospice diagnosis.
Call us toll-free at 833-299-1525
Mandy Lawrence

Mandy Lawrence
Executive Director

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Kevin Craig
Assistant Medical Director
Kevin Craig, MD, MSPH, FAAFP, is assistant professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He also serves as assistant medical director of the Compassus program in Columbia, MO.
Craig graduated Magna cum Laude with a bachelor’s degree in science from the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas. He received his medical degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston – McGovern Medical School and a Master of Science in Public Health from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He completed post-doctoral geriatric medicine fellowship with the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Craig continues to practice as an inpatient and outpatient palliative care physician at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
He is also a recipient of a 2015 University of Missouri Vice Chancellor’s Clinical / Health Service Research Award for “Oncology Pain Team PDSA” as a project sponsor and the David B Oliver MU Family and Community Medicine Faculty Award (an endowed fund established by the Parker-Oliver family) for demonstrated excellence in geriatrics and palliative care 2013.
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Paul Tatum
Medical Director
Paul E. Tatum, III, MD, MSPH, CMD, FAAHPM, is associate professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He also serves as medical director of the Compassus program in Columbia, Missouri.
Dr. Tatum graduated Magna cum Laude with a bachelor’s degree in Biology from Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. He received his medical degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center and a Master’s of Science in Public Health from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
He has held various medical and teaching positions, working as a long-term care staff physician in Arizona, a staff physician in Colorado, clinical assistant professor at the University of Arizona and senior clinical instructor at the University of Colorado. In 2010-2011, Dr. Tatum developed national curriculum with the AAHPM and CAFP to redefine palliative medicine for primary care physicians. He is a fellow in the AAHPM and the American Geriatrics Society.
Dr. Tatum is on the AAHPM board of directors. He also serves on several national committees, including the National Quality Forum (NQF) Hospice & Palliative Care Working Group, AAHPM Policy Committee and is founding chair of that organization’s Geriatrics Special Interest Group. Locally, he serves on the University of Missouri Palliative Care Committee and MU’s Ethics Committee.
He is senior section editor for PC-FACS, the AAHPM evidence-based medicine journal, and contributes to a number of journals. He was recently awarded the 2016 Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Mid-Career Physician Award for advancing end-of-life care as a basic part of the doctor-patient relationship. He is also a recipient of the R. Sean Morrison, M.D. Award for Outstanding Achievement in Hospice Phy
Mandy Bentlage, Jennifer Beshears and Rachel Forker Inducted Into Compassus Presidents’ Circle
Mandy Bentlage, Jennifer Beshears and Rachel Forker, hospice care consultants for the Compassus program serving Columbia and the surrounding areas, were...
- Thursday, March 15th, 2018
- Columbia
Compassus – Columbia Earns Program Of The Year Award
COLUMBIA, Mo. – The Compassus hospice program serving Columbia, Jefferson City, Macon and Osage Beach was named Program of the Year at a recent awards...
- Wednesday, May 10th, 2017
- Columbia