Transforming conversations to bring quality living to our patients and families.
Our Mission
At Topkare we provide empowering education and exceptional personalized care for our patients, families, and community in order to enhance comfort, dignity, and choice.
Our Vision
It is our dream is to positively transform the healthcare experience, so that all patients and families affected by a limiting illness are given the opportunity to experience meaningful, personalized, and compassionate care.
Our Story
Jamie Hunt, RN, CEO, worked in the Intensive Care Unit for a decade. Here, she witnessed firsthand the need for conversations and education surrounding chronic disease, aging, and end-of-life. Advances in medicine are now able to extend life beyond what was only imagined previously, however, with all this progress, families and patients are now the ones having to make the difficult decisions. Without these important conversations, chronic disease, aging and end-of-life are often traumatic. Topkare’s goal is minimize trauma, manage symptoms, promote comfort, and improve quality of living by providing holistic in-home support to our patients and families.
Our Values
Make a Difference
“The way we do anything is the way we do everything.” We constantly push ourselves to be our best, we focus on solutions, and we arrive every day inspired to make an impact through our talents, passion and hard work. Our goal is to leave everything just a little better than the way we found it.
Mindful Compassion
We find meaning today and in every day. We are grateful, positive and hospitable. We take time to notice and listen. We make people feel good. We take care of ourselves and others. We embrace life today by being, not doing. We believe in gratitude — showing it, feeling it, living it. Presence, care and concern guide our behavior.
Integrity
We’re honest, transparent and committed to doing what’s best for our patients, families, partners and our company. We do what we say we are going to do. We openly collaborate in pursuit of the truth. We follow the rules and do what is right.
Patient and Family Choice
It’s not a matter of whether we agree or disagree. We give you the education and you get to make your decisions based on your beliefs and experiences.
Creativity
We embrace change and are always looking at ways to improve our business and add value to the people we serve, while inspiring our employees. We continually seek to understand with curiosity and vulnerability. We are a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
Curiosity
To truly live this value, we welcome hard conversations and don’t make assumptions. We ask and answer questions. We rely on each other and our partners to find solutions. Our team is our toughest critic, our biggest challenger and our loudest supporter.
Meet our team
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Jamie Hunt, RN, MN
An innovative entrepreneur and experienced Registered Nurse, she is passionate about carrying out the vision of the organization while helping to change conversations around end of life care in the community.
After receiving her Master's degree at the University of Minnesota, she witnessed the progress of modern medicine throughout her ten years working in the ICU. She also saw countless families left shocked, confused, and alone as they navigated the healthcare system and watched their loved ones suffer.
While modern medicine can extend life, she saw what the human experience truly craves: meaning, purpose, connection, and gratitude.
At Topkare, Jamie is passionate about providing patients and families with the resources, education, and personalized support to maximize quality of life that is based on individual values, experiences and preferences.
Midwest at heart, Jamie and her family have been calling sunny San Diego their home since 2016. In her free time, Jamie loves adventures with her family, yoga, dancing, walking and exploring, reading historical fiction, and thrives off open and deep conversations.
HOSPICE MEDICAL DIRECTOR
Brian H. Graham MD, HMDC
Dr. Graham brings over fifteen years of experience as a Hospice Medical Director to Topkare. Having started his career as a family care practitioner, he saw patients in every stage of life and saw a clear need for better end-of-life care.
Through his work as a house doctor, he networked with several hospice companies and eventually took on his first Medical Director role in 2005–an incredibly rewarding decision he would never look back on.
With him, Dr. Graham brings a passion for elevating the level of in-home care provided for those in their final season of life and specializes in listening to the needs of patients and their families. He is excited to be part of a new, hands-on company and support patients, families, and staff in this powerful work.
Grateful to be living in his favorite city in the world, you can usually find him walking the beautiful beaches of San Diego when he isn't working.