Education is emerging as a key tool for home-based care providers as they try to recruit and retain staff. When utilized correctly, quality education is a resource that can help providers keep up with market demand. Always Best Care learned education’s importance firsthand through its own struggles. “We did an in-depth study in house,” Sheila […]
Most home care companies are generally committed to a single payer source more than they are the other ones, whether it’s private pay or Medicaid. But many companies have begun engaging with Medicare Advantage (MA), too, and most all companies have at least thought about diversifying their revenue, at least by a little. Still, there’s […]
Top home-based care leaders from across the country gathered at the end of March in Washington, D.C. We got to hear from many of them at Home Health Care News’ Capital + Strategy event last Thursday. While they are advocating for a better regulatory environment – whether in personal home care or home health care […]
The Pennant Group acquires the assets of Kenosha Visiting Nurse Association The Pennant Group Inc. (Nasdaq: PNTG) has purchased the assets of Kenosha Visiting Nurse Association Inc., a provider of home health, private-duty home care and community health services in Kenosha, Wisconsin. “We are pleased to expand our home health operations deeper into southern Wisconsin,” […]
COVID-19 hasn’t changed the workforce issues in home-based care, other than by making those issues worse at various stages of the pandemic. What has changed over the last few years is how providers are trying to address their workforce woes. Increasingly, they are turning to technology to do that. “We have more and more people […]
As a self-described data junkie, Stephen Tweed has lived by many mantras throughout his career in home care. When talking with Home Health Care News this week about how home care agencies can use and leverage data in order to grow, one of those mantras came to mind. “What gets measured, gets managed,” Tweed, the […]
After multiple years of record-breaking M&A activity, home health consolidators are now starting to show an increased interest in organic growth. While the approach to growing a home health business through building existing infrastructure may take longer, the environment in 2022 is more friendly to organic growth than it was during the COVID-19 pandemic. “We […]
In order for AccordCare to reach its goals of becoming a nationally recognized provider, the Marietta, Georgia-based company is dedicated to offering a diversified set of services to its clients. Brandon Ballew, the CEO of AccordCare, is a former Kindred at Home executive. But as the home health industry changed, he saw increased opportunity on […]
In 2019, a Kindred at Home veteran left the company to make a bet on non-medical home care and become the leader of AccordCare. Nearly three years later, he persuaded another former Kindred executive to do the same. Brandon Ballew and Derek Nordman are now at the helm of the Atlanta-based AccordCare, as CEO and […]
Nick Loporcaro joins The Vistria Group The former CEO of Landmark Health, Nick Loporcaro, has joined the The Vistria Group as a senior operating partner for its health care team. Loporcaro served as the CEO of Landmark, an in-home medical care provider, for over three years. The company was acquired by UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE: UNH) […]
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