In a normal week, Rexanne Domico — president of home health care and rehabilitation at BrightSpring Health Services — might be back and forth between Charlotte, North Carolina, where she lives, and Louisville, Kentucky, where her company is headquartered. Or maybe she’d be hopping around the South, visiting BrightSpring’s newest locations, which the home- and […]
Best Life Brands names new CEO Best Life Brands — a holding company that owns the franchised home care providers ComForCare and At Your Side — has hired a new CEO. J.J. Sorrenti stepped into the role earlier this month and will oversee the strategic growth plans for all Best Life Brands. Those include ComForCare […]
As the coronavirus continues to spread across the U.S., one might assume the home-based care industry is booming, due to providers’ special ability to keep vulnerable senior populations safely at home. However, it seems the opposite is true: Many home health and home care providers have reported that business is down, due to factors like […]
Interim HealthCare has been part of the nation’s COVID-19 response effort since the virus first reared its head at the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Washington. An area Interim franchise location deployed its home care team to help transition both COVID-19 positive and negative patients out of the nursing home while also sending additional staff […]
When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administration Seema Verma first announced Medicare providers would be getting emergency assistance payments to help them maintain stability amid the coronavirus, she said the money would come with “no strings attached.” But that’s not entirely true, home health and hospice providers have learned as they receive […]
While home-based care providers nationwide are on the frontlines in the fight against the COVID-19 virus, the Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY) is on the bloodiest part of the battlefield. To date, New York accounts for nearly half of all the coronavirus-related deaths nationwide. Though the COVID-19 mortality rate seems to be flattening […]
Home health and hospice providers now have greater clarity on how much initial emergency assistance they’ll be getting from the CARES Act Provider Relief Fund, as well as when those direct deposits will hit their bank accounts. While details of the disbursements were originally scarce, it seems the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) […]
As COVID-19 sweeps the country and threatens vulnerable senior populations who rely on home-based care, the stakes have never been higher for providers in the space. A lot of that pressure falls on front-line, home-based care workers, whose jobs are more challenging — and more important — than ever in light of the pandemic. Their […]
Lifesprk — a home-based care company known for its innovative whole-person focus — has scored a new $16.1 million investment, the first the company has accepted since its 2004 founding. The investment — which was led by Burlingame, California-based private equity firm Virgo Investment Group — came in the form of Series A preferred stock. […]
In the past two weeks, nearly 10 million people have filed for unemployment, pushing the jobless rate “certainly higher than at any point since the Great Depression,” according to the New York Times. These unprecedented times have prompted unprecedented benefits: Thanks to new pandemic unemployment assistance (PUA) created by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic […]
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