PE-Backed Choice Completes 4th Acquisition of 2021, Buys Alpha Home Health and Hospice

Choice Health at Home has acquired Alpha Home Health and Hospice, further increasing the company’s Oklahoma footprint. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Alpha provides home health and hospice services through five locations in Ada, Ardmore, Oklahoma City, Norman and Pauls Valley. Meanwhile, Tyler, Texas-based Choice is home health, hospice and rehabilitation services […]

‘Friendly Home Care Competitors’ Family Tree and Evergreen Join Forces

Two of the largest concierge-level caregiving, private nursing and care management firms in Houston, Texas, have joined forces. On Tuesday, Family Tree In-Home Care announced it has completed the acquisition of Evergreen Private Care of Houston in order to merge the operations of the two companies. The announcement echoes the increasing amount of consolidation happening […]

Home Health Veterans Windley, Strange Hoping to Take Aveanna Above and Beyond $2 Billion

Rod Windley and Tony Strange have been in business with each other for decades. They continue to be partners today as the chairman and CEO, respectively, of Aveanna Healthcare (Nasdaq: AVAH). From The Healthfield Group Inc. and Gentiva Health Services, Kindred at Home’s predecessor, to Aveanna, Windley and Strange have helped build a handful of […]

Jet Health Lands Signal Home Health & Hospice in Ongoing Expansion Push

With its latest purchase of San Antonio, Texas-based Signal Home Health & Hospice, Jet Health continues its strategy of co-locating hospice operations with its home health offerings. That has become a calling card for the company, similar to several other home-based care providers. Jet Health announced the Signal deal on Monday without disclosing any financial […]

Transactions: Regence BlueShield Teams Up with DispatchHealth; Amedisys Enters New Market

Health insurer Regence BlueShield has partnered with DispatchHealth to give its members access to hospital-at-home and mobile high-acuity services. “Hospitalizations in the home is a groundbreaking and exciting shift in care delivery,” Dr. Drew Oliveira, senior executive medical director at Regence, said in a press release. “Our partnership with DispatchHealth enables Regence members to receive […]

Home Health Industry Must Prepare for Costs of Consolidation

At Home Health Care News, it seems like we’ve been writing about “the rapidly consolidating home health market” for years. Just check out this story from 2015, for example. There are also these more recent pieces from 2018 and 2019, respectively. In many ways, consolidation — either through agency closures or through M&A activity — […]

Mission Buys Healthy Living Network, Effectively Doubling Its Overall Business

Mission Healthcare announced Wednesday that it has acquired Healthy Living Network, a multi-state home health provider founded over a decade ago. The deal is the largest acquisition in the San Diego-based Mission’s history, CEO Paul VerHoeve told Home Health Care news. Additionally, by joining forces with Healthy Living Network, Mission effectively doubles its overall business […]

Addus to Acquire Home Health, Hospice Provider Armada for $29M

Addus HomeCare Corporation (Nasdaq: ADUS) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Armada Skilled Home Health and Hospice, further building out its already sizable footprint in the state of New Mexico. It’s yet another step for Addus in its quest to build out home health, hospice and personal care lines in specific markets and states, […]