The Dallas-based private equity firm Havencrest Capital Management has its home care platform. That’s Avid Health at Home, which has aggressive growth plans from the outset. The company was first unveiled in early August. It was created in conjunction with Havencrest’s acquisition of For Papa’s Sake Home Care, which is a personal home care provider […]
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Travis Messina co-founded Contessa Health as a hospital-at-home startup in 2015. He served as CEO until March 2023, helping to grow the business into a higher-acuity care innovator with joint venture partnerships with some of health care’s biggest names. Messina now finds himself leading another organization. The Franklin, Tennessee-based Regent Surgical Health announced Monday that […]
In connection with its acquisition of For Papa’s Sake Home Care (FPS), Havencrest Capital Management has formed its own home care platform. The new company will be dubbed “Avid Health at Home,” and Havencrest Operating Partner Jen Lentz will be the CEO. “We are very excited about the creation of Avid as well as our […]
Private equity (PE) firms still see home-based care as an investment area filled with opportunity. That sustained interest is driven by patient preferences. But another driver is providers reaching out to – and seeking out – capital partners. Last year, 37 of the 628 health care PE transactions that took place were home health and […]
Court Square Capital Partners, a private equity firm based in New York, has made a strategic capital investment in Team Select Home Care, the two companies announced Monday. The announcement comes less than a year after Tenex Capital began shopping Team Select to other potential investors. Based in Phoenix, Team Select is a home-based care […]
Inflation reaching multi-decade highs, uncertainty in the banking world and credit markets drying up dampened private equity health care M&A activity in 2022, especially in the second half. Many anticipate that investment slowdown to continue into 2023, but there’s a good chance the home health industry will buck that trend. Multiple PE firms, such as […]
The home health care workforce shortage is restricting PE dealmaking, experts suggest. That’s especially been the case over the last year and a half, as micro and macro economic headwinds have also affected both agencies and PE firms. “When you think about it, it takes the margin on a business that was already feeling some […]
For the second time this year, Waud Capital Partners is making an investment in a home-based-care adjacent platform. On Thursday, the Chicago-based middle-market private equity firm announced it is launching Fusion Health, a new platform that will provide clinical staffing services to health care facilities, health plans and providers, including of the home health care […]
Shortly after COVID-19 entered our collective lexicon, investments began pouring into the health care industry. The warts on the U.S. health care system that COVID-19 exposed were enough for lenders, backers and buyers to continue to throw money at the companies – or even ideas – that could cover up or eradicate those warts. Home-based […]
Last year, home-based care M&A was up by dollar amount and down by volume. CVS Health’s (NYSE: CVS) $8 billion pending deal for Signify Health (NYSE: SGFY) and UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE: UNH) pending deal for LHC Group Inc. (Nasdaq: LHCG) made sure of the former. While 2021 was an outlier year from an M&A perspective, […]
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