Is your organization interested in the business of hospice care? With a Home Health Care News affiliation, Hospice News recently launched to cover the $28 billion business of hospice and palliative care.As demand for hospice continues to grow, Hospice News will provide industry insights, information and analysis that leaders, investors and policymakers need to navigate […]
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If there’s one thing home health care providers can agree on when it comes to the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM), it’s that the new model is shrouded in uncertainty. Despite attempting to predict expected reimbursement changes and adapting operations accordingly, agencies won’t know exactly how PDGM will affect them until well after its Jan. 1 […]
Hospital-at-home company raises $10M in Series B funding Medically Home — a Boston-based technology-enabled services company — has raised $10 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Cardinal Health and other investors. Founded in 2017, Medically Home brings hospital-level care into the home, sending clinicians, technology, equipment, medication and supplies directly to […]
Brookdale Senior Living’s (NYSE: BKD) home health business may be taking a back seat to the senior housing owner and operator’s core portfolio and hospice line — at least for now. Locked in on an ongoing turnaround effort and coming off a strong Q1 2019 performance rooted in an improved sales cycle and growth, Brookdale […]
LHC Group Inc. (Nasdaq: LHCG) has turned its cornerstone joint venture strategy up a notch in the early part of 2019, a decision that helped propel the Lafayette, Louisiana-based home health giant to a steady first quarter. JVs will continue to play a leading role as LHC Group readies itself for the Patient-Driven Groupings Model […]
Mission Viejo, California-based The Ensign Group Inc. (Nasdaq: ENSG) unveiled plans Monday to spin off its home health, hospice and senior living businesses into The Pennant Group, a separate publicly traded company. Expected to close by the end of 2019, the Pennant spinoff will consist of 60 home health and hospice agencies and 51 senior […]
The number of publicly traded home health companies in operation may soon rise by one, as The Ensign Group Inc. (Nasdaq: ENSG) signaled Monday its intent to spin off and grow a separate business under the name The Pennant Group Inc. Plans for the spinoff — expected to close toward the end of 2019 — […]
Despite expectations that home health admissions in the U.S. would drop in Q3 2018, both home health admissions and utilization continued to increase slightly quarter-over-quarter. Meanwhile, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) data shows hospice utilization rose to record-breaking levels in the third quarter of 2018, while hospice admission growth declined slightly. The findings […]
HomeCare.com alum joins LifeMatters Silver Spring, Maryland-based home care provider LifeMatters has hired a new COO. Daniel Gold comes to the position after serving as executive vice president and COO of HomeCare.com, which offers tools and technologies to connect families and caregivers. Gold has worked in different capacities within the post-acute care since the early […]
Aging Media Network on Tuesday launched its fifth digital publication, Hospice News, which covers the $28 billion business of hospice and palliative care. As demand for hospice continues to grow, Hospice News will provide industry insights, information and analysis that leaders, investors, and policymakers need to navigate this evolving business and regulatory landscape. Visit www.hospicenews.com […]