The Maine-based Androscoggin Home Healthcare + Hospice is rebranding to “better reflect its evolutions and future,” and will be operating under the name Andwell Health Partners moving forward. “As we continue to grow and evolve, we realized that the name Androscoggin Home Healthcare and Hospice no longer accurately reflected who we are, where we are […]
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Careforth names new chairman of the board Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) veteran Paul Kusserow is serving as Careforth’s chairman of the board. Boston-based Careforth is a family caregiver support platform. The company recently announced that it was able to lower adverse health event occurrences and keep seniors out of costlier settings. Currently, Kusserow also serves […]
For patients and providers, working through the post-acute health care system in the U.S. is a tall task. It often involves a wide range of providers and vendors. There’s lots of talk around interoperability in these circles, but that goal of seamless coordination is generally not met on the ground. Generally, interoperability refers to the […]
Fortis Home Health & Hospice appoints new CEO Fortis Home Health & Hospice has named Rob Radics as the company’s new CEO. Radics joins Fortis with nearly three decades of experience leading and operating home health and hospice businesses. Most recently, he served as the president of the home health and hospice segments at Aveanna […]
Home health providers have delved into different service lines during COVID-19. Among those are high-acuity care, such as hospital-at-home and SNF-at-home programs, palliative care and respite care. But one set of services, in particular, is beginning to make more sense for home health providers to offer: behavioral health. Strategically, expanding into behavioral health makes sense […]
Androscoggin Home Healthcare + Hospice President and CEO Ken Albert was busy at the National Association for Home Care & Hospice’s (NAHC) annual Financial Management Conference last month. In addition to leading his own organization, he was on the heels of a Washington, D.C., trip to vie for the entire home health industry in the […]
A new bill that would prevent the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) from reducing home health payments this year – and until 2026 – was introduced in the Senate Monday afternoon. Dubbed The Preserving Access to Home Health Act, the bill was introduced by Sens. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine), […]
Founded in 1966, Androscoggin Home Healthcare+Hospice is the largest, nonprofit provider of home health and hospice services in the state of Maine. In recent years, Androscoggin has also expanded into palliative care, transitional care and more, according to CEO and President Ken Albert. The provider has long been bullish on telehealth, too, signing its first […]
Most home-based care agencies have done their best to keep staff protected from the COVID-19 virus. They’ve worked endlessly to procure PPE and manage the threat of infection, all while lacking the ability to test workers and patients. Now, agencies are starting to consider the mental health ramifications on their workers as well. For clinicians […]
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