The quotes that cracked this Home Health Care News list were not only memorable, frank and informative, but they also paint a complete picture of the home-based care landscape in 2022. The words from the industry leaders highlighted here weigh in on everything from tensions with Medicare Advantage (MA) plans to staffing shortages kneecapping industry […]
Enhabit purchases Southwest Florida Home Care’s Fort Myers location Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) has acquired the Fort Myers, Florida, location of Southwest Florida Home Care. “We are excited to welcome the Southwest Florida Home Care employees to our Enhabit team,” Enhabit President and CEO Barb Jacobsmeyer said in a press statement. “We look forward to […]
Care Advantage Inc. has acquired the Reston, Virginia-based Lighthouse Healthcare Inc., a private-pay personal care company. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Care Advantage CEO Tim Hanold told Home Health Care News that Lighthouse “complements” what the company is already accomplishing in Northern Virginia. “We’ve made a number of acquisitions over there in […]
Hospitals and health systems are increasingly shifting more care into the home setting. Despite this, there’s still a greater need for technology, support and financial reimbursement in order to propel these efforts forward, a new report from Current Health suggests. “Our survey found that two-thirds of health system leaders are offering some type of care-at-home […]
Hospital systems are now making a greater effort to collaborate with senior care providers – including those in home-based care – to elevate care delivery. Key players in this larger move to work more closely with senior care providers, or to integrate that care directly, are Kaiser Permanente and Trinity Health. While home-based care always […]
In a sense, home health leaders are entering 2023 with many of the same concerns they came into 2022 with. Additional ones may have been added, but not many have been taken away. Staffing continues to be a pain point in a competitive labor market, and both COVID-19 and inflation are still factors. While these […]
In order to stay ahead of the needs of consumers and payers, post-acute care leaders — including those in home-based care — are looking to innovate how care and services are delivered to seniors. A major part of this is moving their organizations toward more integrated, cross-continuum care. At Homebase Medical, this means placing a […]
DispatchHealth — a company that delivers high-acuity care and other services in the home setting — has entered two new partnerships that increase access to its offerings. Originally launched as an in-home urgent care startup, Denver-based DispatchHealth delivers higher-acuity care, including offering hospital-level care, in the home. Blue Shield of California, an independent member of […]
Modivcare Inc. (Nasdaq: MODV) leaders are forecasting pretty significant growth for the company in the near-term future. Specifically, they expect 7% to 10% growth across the entire company. Just one month after laying out his 90 day goals for Modivcare during the company’s Q3 earnings call, President and CEO Heath Sampson shared his target growth […]
The release of the home health proposed payment rule in June brought M&A activity to a screeching halt. With the release of the final rule back in October, an uptick in dealmaking might be here. Even as it slowed down, though, retailers, insurers and other players outside the Medicare-certified home health industry continued to make […]
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