Dealbook: DAI Closes On HCA Deal; At Home Harmony Raises $4.7M

DAI closes on HCA Healthcare deal Deaconess Associations Incorporated (DAI) has closed on its acquisition of 24 home health locations and seven hospice locations from HCA Healthcare.   The new agencies, which span eight states, have joined Central Pyramid, one of DAI’s four owned subsidiaries. DAI CEO Trey Crabb previously told Home Health Care News […]

Home Helpers Names New Chief Development Officer; A Place for Mom Appoints CTO 

Home Helpers Home Care promotes Bobby Kelley to chief development officer Home Helpers Home Care appointed Bobby Kelley, who joined the company in 2005, as chief development officer. Kelley previously served as a franchise consultant and vice president of franchise development. Kelley will now oversee the company’s franchise development sales team as CDO. “Bobby’s promotion […]

What Aveanna, Addus And Pennant Revealed About Growth Beyond New Referrals

Last week, several large, publicly traded home-based care providers took the stage at the 2026 Jefferies Healthcare Services and Technology Conference, offering a back-to-back look at how the industry’s biggest operators are thinking about growth heading into 2027. Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: AVAH), Addus HomeCare Corp. (Nasdaq: ADUS) and the Pennant Group Inc. (Nasdaq: […]

How Omatochi’s Family App Gives Relatives More Visibility Into Home Care

For families of aging adults, staying informed about a loved one’s day-to-day care can be an uphill battle. Omatochi founder and CEO Deka Dike developed a family-facing app designed to bridge that divide, giving relatives direct visibility into the daily routines, meals and medication adherence of low-income seniors. The technology-enabled home care provider is now […]

MatrixCare Speeds Up Post-Acute Strategy Under New CEO Jonathan Lujan

Post-acute care software company MatrixCare’s newly appointed CEO, Jonathan Lujan, sees home health providers increasingly operating in a technology ecosystem rather than a closed environment — making interoperability even more crucial. Lujan wants MatrixCare to support an ecosystem resembling Apple’s App Store, where the company can integrate with partners offering specialized solutions rather than trying […]

Rigorous Tech Vetting Shields Home Care Agencies From Costly Liabilities, Mismatches 

AI-based tools and other technologies have flooded the home care industry, but choosing the wrong one can mean the difference between streamlined operations and a costly, disruptive mismatch. Determining whether a vendor can deliver good business results means piloting tools before wide deployment, scrutinizing contract terms, asking pointed, evidence-based questions about efficacy and assessing whether […]

Deprioritizing Agentic AI, Owning Data: Ways At-Home Care Providers Can Reduce Compliance Risk

Home-based care providers are operating in an environment of intensified Medicare and Medicaid program integrity oversight and transformational AI technology. The companies that survive and thrive are the ones that adopt AI with disciplined governance, compliance and vendor management. Companies should respond to the evolving regulatory landscape by conducting internal data reviews and compliance checks, […]

Confronting Higher Acuity And The Intake Clock In Home-Based Care

As the center of health care has increasingly moved into the home, home-based care services have become more complex. Home-based care providers shared the ways that their strategies, challenges and opportunities are evolving amid this growing complexity at HHCN’s FUTURE conference in Austin. In an HHCN+ Update I wrote at the event, I shared a […]