The first 90 days of a home-based care worker’s employment serve as a critical tipping point for retention, and industry leaders have found that transparent onboarding process and early engagement practices ca helps new workers feel prepared for work that can often feel isolating. Leaders from TheKey, Elevate Home Health and DispatchHealth said retention efforts […]
At the beginning of every year, Home Health Care News issues a list of the trends we believe will define the industry. Often, these predictions seem almost inevitable early in the year, only for events to unfold that completely change the trajectory of a specific trend before the frost melts from the trees. Other predictions […]
As part of their joint venture, DispatchHealth and Saint Francis Health System have launched a new hospital-at-home program. The model is designed to either substitute an entire hospital stay or part of a hospital stay, allowing patients to recover in their own home. Both sides of the venture aim to expand the program to provide […]
Following its merger with Medically Home, hospital-at-home leader DispatchHealth has restructured its operations, implementing layoffs, exiting one market and changing service offerings in nine others. Specifically, DispatchHealth exited Little Rock, Ark. and scaled back services offered in the following markets, according to documents obtained by Home Health Care News: Atlanta, Baltimore, Dallas/Fort Worth, Las Vegas, […]
A week after DispatchHealth and Medically Home closed their merger, reports emerged that Medically Home experienced a drop in valuation and other financial struggles. A 498-page document, accidentally sent to Medically Home employees and then leaked to Axios, indicated a “dramatic” loss in valuation, according to the outlet. The high-acuity, in-home medical care provider reportedly […]
At-home care providers are looking to the future. This means seriously investing in alternative home-based care models, such as hospital-at-home and Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE). DispatchHealth, Contessa Health and Alivia Care are some of the organizations that have jumped headfirst into alternative home-based care models, enabling the creation of more comprehensive […]
Two major home-based care deals have crossed the finish line. DispatchHealth and Medically Home complete merger In March, DispatchHealth and Medically Home announced their plans to merge. Today, the companies revealed that the merger has officially closed. DispatchHealth and Medically Home are two of the most visible companies in the hospital-at-home space. As one combined […]
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 […]
DispatchHealth and Medically Home — two of the most prominent companies in the hospital-at-home space — recently announced plans to become one organization. Separately, Medically Home and DispatchHealth have each played significant roles in shifting higher-acuity care away from traditional brick-and-morter hospitals, placing the home at the center of care delivery. I believe the merger […]
DispatchHealth and Medically Home have announced their merger, creating the country’s most comprehensive provider of advanced medical care at home, according to the companies. After the deal is finalized, Medically Home will join DispatchHealth, extending care into patients’ homes across 50 major metropolitan areas in collaboration with nearly 40 health systems and most major health […]
