Top Home Health Trends For 2025

The year ahead will be a fascinating one in home health care. As 2025 dawns, the industry faces many uncertainties, and the next 12 months will be pivotal in shaping the future. Regulatory decisions will have an outsized impact on home health providers in the near-term, and their effects could stretch well into the future. […]

Holistic and Seamless: How Health Systems Advocate, Mass General Brigham Are Advancing At-Home Care

A big part of the evolution of health systems has been more meaningful engagement with the home as an extension of brick-and-mortar operations. In recent years, organizations like Advocate Health and Mass General Brigham have exemplified this shift. These major health systems are reevaluating their home-based care capabilities and partnerships, and leveraging technology and innovative […]

Home-Based Care Providers Scramble To Find The ‘Right’ Health Plan, Health System Partners

Home-based care providers hungry for value-based care arrangements have recently been disillusioned by the process of trying to find those arrangements. While they’ve been told value-based care is the way to go, they often end up finding that health systems and payers aren’t as willing to meet them in the middle. Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) […]

Future Leader: Lindsey Van Gompel, Executive Director Of Specialty Programs, Advocate Health, Continuing Health Division

The Future Leaders Awards program is brought to you in partnership with Homecare Homebase. The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. To see this year’s Future Leaders, visit https://futureleaders.agingmedia.com/. Lindsey Van Gompel, executive director of […]

Frontline Honors: Wendy McBride, Advocate Health/Aurora Health at Home

Wendy McBride, Home Health RN Case Manager for Advocate Health/Aurora Health at Home, has been named a 2023 Frontline Honors honoree by Home Health Care News. To become a Frontline Honoree, an individual is nominated by their peers. The candidate must be a dedicated, high-performing frontline worker who delivers exceptional experiences and outcomes; a passionate […]

Waud Capital Acquires Home Care Franchise Senior Helpers

The private equity firm Waud Capital has acquired the home care franchise Senior Helpers. Advocate Aurora Health acquired Senior Helpers in 2021, with the idea that the health system would “own the full continuum.” A year and a half later, however, Advocate Aurora merged with Atrium Health, forming one of the largest health systems in […]

Why Advocate Health Is Ripe For Home-Based Care Innovation

While many health systems offloaded ancillary service lines following the pandemic, Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health doubled down on home-based care. Those companies merging, and creating “Advocate Health,” has created one of the largest health systems in the U.S. But the merger has also formed an organization with a strong and wide commitment to […]

Honor Expands Its Executive Leadership Team; New Executive Director Joins MedPAC

Honor make four new additions to its leadership team Four new executives recently joined Honor’s leadership team. The new additions to the team include: Linn Free, who was named senior vice president of operations; Stefan Haney, who was named senior vice president of growth technology; Mark Privett, who was named vice president of design; and […]