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,” […]
BrightStar Care
The personal home care industry in the U.S. has generated both respect and notoriety over the last few years. With that, owners and operators are voicing a larger range of differing opinions than ever about what’s next for the industry. This creates an intriguing issue in home care, where some of the industry’s largest providers […]
A number of home-based care providers – and businesses in the aging services sector at large – are among some of the nation’s fastest-growing companies. In fact, these companies recently grabbed a spot on Inc. 5000’s annual ranking. Companies such as connectRN, Entrusted Pediatric Home Care, BarbaraKares In-Home Care Services, Connect Pediatrics and Electronic Caregiver […]
True to its word, BrightStar Care is investing in company-owned locations with the acquisition of eight agencies in Florida and Alabama. The eight locations will now operate as BrightStar-owned agencies, marking the largest purchase the company has made since launching the corporate-owned focus program in February. Over the past few months, BrightStar Care has committed […]
The convener platform healthAlign has a front-row seat to see how home care is being utilized in Medicare Advantage (MA). Andy Friedell, the company’s founder and CEO, has always been bullish on home care’s growing prevalence in MA, even when providers began to shy away from it a bit after initial excitement over supplemental-benefit updates […]
More than ever, Medicare Advantage (MA) plans are stepping up and responding to the demand for more access to care in the home setting. This, in turn, has created an avenue for home-based care providers to lean into new opportunities. Over the past couple of years, the amount of MA plans offering care services in […]
Shifting health care payer trends have home-based care providers stuck between two battling business decisions: “adapt or die,” or sustainability. Those two decisions may look like one in the same to outsiders, but for home care operators grappling with whether to engage with Medicare Advantage (MA), they sometimes posit providers on different sides of the […]
As more home care franchise companies begin to embrace company-owned or corporate-owned locations, veterans in the space are analyzing the return on investment of their long-held locations. While company-owned locations are more recent additions at a number home care agencies, BrightStar Care got its start with a handful of company-owned locations in 2002. In fact, […]
In mid-May, I stumbled upon a story. I had been talking to providers for other assignments when I heard a few of them mention off hand that the staffing situation for their companies had gotten better. Some had reasons why they believed that was turning, while others didn’t offer anything but gratitude that it was. […]
For a while now, home care giant BrightStar Care has gone above and beyond the standard franchise model. It introduced senior living communities into its network to assist seniors with their care transitions while maintaining those clients. Recently, it has launched its new “care homes,” a twist on those senior living communities. BrightStar has always […]
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