Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA) is full-speed ahead on “Walgreens Health,” its recently unveiled health care strategy driven by investments in VillageMD, CareCentrix and Shields Health Solutions. And to accelerate its health care push even more and refocus on long-term growth priorities, the holdings firm for pharmacy store giant Walgreens has initiated a strategic […]
Category: Home-based primary care
Home-focused primary care providers have proven to be the next emerging faction of an ever-expanding home-based care ecosystem in the U.S. Unlike other emerging trends such as hospital-at-home and SNF-at-home models, which have largely been driven by traditional home health players or health systems, these providers are emerging on their own. But that doesn’t mean […]
The COVID-19 pandemic continued to dominate headlines in 2021, despite the collective desire for it to be gone by this past summer. But it didn’t stop massive dealmaking, which made M&A just as big of a story in home-based care as the virus. Thus, those two topics took up a lot of Home Health Care […]
The public health emergency continued to have an impact on home-based care providers in 2021. It didn’t define the year, however. As the top Home Health Care News stories of 2021 suggest, this year was about so much more than the COVID-19 crisis. Even more than the pandemic, the past 12 months have been about […]
Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq:WBA) invested over $6 billion in VillageMD. Humana (NYSE: HUM) invested $100 million in Heal. Patina raised $57 million in Series A. All of those companies – VillageMD, Heal and Patina – have two things in common: They are primary care providers, and they are more focused than their peers on the […]
Landmark Health is capping off 2021 with a new leader at its helm. The company named Chris Johnson CEO on Tuesday. Founded in 2014, the Huntington Beach, California-based Landmark is a multidisciplinary mobile medical group that delivers comprehensive in-home medical care to “the sickest and frailest” patient populations. The company – whose physician-led teams work […]
In 2020, Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq: WBA) announced that it would be investing $1 billion in a relatively new primary care company: VillageMD. Since that point, the home- and community-focused VillageMD has thrived in the partnership with the behemoth retailer, so much so that Walgreens invested another $5.2 billion in the company this October. Despite […]
Home care has become a crucial part of care plans for primary care providers (PCPs), according to a new value-based care report conducted by Humana (NYSE: HUM). The report tracked physician progress and patient outcomes based on 2020 data and highlighted how value-based PCPs were able to leverage home care to improve some of those […]