FirstLight Home Care Makes Leadership Changes; Care Synergy Names New Chief Medical Officer

FirstLight Home Care expands franchise support center team, makes leadership changes FirstLight Home Care has made several leadership changes and additions to its franchise support team. The Cincinnati-based FirstLight Home Care has about 200 locations across the country. Mark Vanase, FirstLight’s former EVP of business development and field operations, has been named the company’s new […]

Care Synergy To Become National Hub For Johns Hopkins’ CAPABLE Program

Starting this month, the Care Synergy network will become the national hub for CAPABLE sites around the country through a partnership with the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Care Synergy is a Colorado-based network for community-based home health care, hospice and palliative care providers. With the new agreement, the company will take over the management […]

Why Care Collaborations Could Shake Up the Home Health Food Chain

In the animal kingdom, there’s strength in numbers, especially among creatures that find themselves toward the bottom of the food chain. This concept is also true in today’s hyper-competitive health care sector. Increasingly, smaller providers with relatively limited resources and reach are teaming up in the form of “collaboratives,” “alliances,” “networks” or “partnerships.” Nowhere is […]

Business Briefs: LHC Group Names Executive VP, CFO and Treasurer

LHC Group Names Josh Profit Executive Vice President, CFO and Treasurer LHC Group (NASDAQ: LHCG), a national provider of home health care, hospice, community-based services and long-term acute care hospitals, as named Joshua L. Proffitt as executive vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer. He has served as LHC Group’s executive vice president, corporate development […]