The day before our Capital+Strategy conference began in Orlando during the first week of April, Mertz Taggart released the firm’s latest M&A data. The timing was perfect, as Capital+Strategy primarily focuses on trends in dealmaking. The Mertz Taggart data indicated a surge in home-based care M&A activity at the start of the year, and the […]
Jill Tedesco, Field Nurse at BrightStar Care of Stroudsburg, has been named a 2024 Frontline Honors honoree by Home Health Care News. To become a Frontline honoree, an individual is nominated by their peers. The candidate must be: Home Health Care News recently caught up with Tedesco to discuss their time in the home health […]
On Tuesday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a continuing resolution that would extend the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital-at-Home (HaH) waiver program and telehealth flexibilities through Sept. 30, pending Senate approval. This program, scheduled to end on March 31, enables hospitals to deliver hospital-level care to patients in their homes. However, […]
In December 2024, BrightStar Care Founder Shelly Sun Berkowitz was within 10 days of closing a deal to sell the company, when she decided to step away. “It just didn’t feel right,” she told me this week. “I didn’t feel like I was going to have the voice I wanted to have, I didn’t feel […]
This week brought some big news in the at-home care space, with the acquisition of BrightStar Care by a private equity firm. The deal is not the only PE-driven transaction to make headlines this year, with other examples including Renovus Capital Partners’ investment in Superior Health Holdings and Levine Leichtman Capital Partners’ acquisition of SYNERGY […]
We’re now about one month away from the end of the hospital-at-home waiver that has been keeping the program alive. With the March 31 deadline fast approaching, the push to further extend the program is picking up steam. Earlier this month, in-home care advocacy group Moving Health Home sent a letter to Congress urging the […]
Home-based care provider BrightStar Care has pursued a multi-year investment to become a more data-driven organization through the creation of proprietary technology and bringing on leadership and team members to drive business intelligence. These efforts are paying off in big savings and enhanced outcomes. Currently, the company’s 400 locations are 90% franchise and 10% corporate […]
Eighteen home-based care companies managed to grab a spot on Entrepreneur’s recently released 2025 Franchise 500 ranking. Companies like Senior Helpers, Right at Home and FirstLight Home Care are making return appearances on the list after earning a spot last year. The fact that a number of home-based care franchise businesses are represented on the […]
With the “sandwich generation” top of mind, Vice President and presidential candidate Kamala Harris unveiled plans for a new Medicare home-based care proposal earlier this month. The proposal would include non-medical home care services under the Medicare umbrella, aiding seniors in need of activities of daily living support. The policy – if enacted – would […]
BrightStar Care recently reached a milestone that fewer than 10% of franchise companies have been able to achieve. It has opened 400 locations across the U.S. “To reach this milestone you’ve got to have a number of things,” Pete First, chief development officer of BrightStar Care, told Home Health Care News. “You’ve got to have […]
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