Home-based care has spent years talking about moving care upstream. This involves identifying patients who qualify for additional support before an acute exacerbation. But turning that ambition into routine practice has not been straightforward. That was a central theme from my recent HHCN+ TALKS conversation with Trisha Crissman, president and CEO of CommonSpirit Health at […]
Home-based care providers face increasing demands from payers and referral partners — but still must remain selective about which relationships fit their businesses while leveraging new technology. Winning those relationships increasingly requires rapid referral responses, timely starts of care and granular data. But providers also need the clinical capabilities and compliance infrastructure to meet partners’ […]
Team Select Home Care bet $6 million on an unproven concept: that proprietary predictive AI, trained on more than a decade of patient records, could catch subtle clinical decline and keep medically fragile patients out of the hospital. Now, the provider is reporting measurable results — and using them to reshape how it negotiates with […]
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 […]
Nine months after being acquired by private equity firm Main Post Partners, HomeWell Care Services has set a new growth record for the company’s history, having sold 33 franchise deals thus far in 2026. The growth comes as the demand for home care has never been greater, CEO Crystal Franz told Home Health Care News […]
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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
