3 Home Health Providers Earn Top Workplace Honors

Headlines about retention challenges in home health and home care might create the impression that agencies are not great places to work. But at least a few standouts challenge this notion—including the home health companies that appear on this year’s Fortune rankings of the top 20 workplaces in health care. Dallas-based Encompass Home Health and […]

HealthSouth Completes $170 Million Acquisition After Rocky Quarter

HealthSouth Corporation (NYSE: HLS) has completed its $170 million acquisition of CareSouth Health System Inc., expanding its home health and hospice footprint and furthering its strategy of building integrated post-acute services that span inpatient and at-home settings. The CareSouth acquisition was finalized less than a week after HealthSouth announced its third quarter 2015 financial results. […]

CEOs Disagree on Winning Strategies for Home Health’s Future

Amid regulatory changes and a big push to move home health into the digital realm, consolidation predictions made by some of the biggest players in home health are coming true. And as leaders look to the future, there continues to be agreement about large-scale trends, if not always on the best course of action to […]

Top 10 Largest Home Health Providers

Providers across the spectrum are tapping into the home health market to expand their services across multiple facets of care, as evidenced by LexisNexis’ 2015 rankings of the leading home health agencies in the United States. Released Wednesday, the LexisNexis 2015 Top 100 Home Health and Hospice Agencies Rankings is a report that ranks Medicare-certified home health providers by national […]

HealthSouth Expands in Southeast with $170 Million Acquisition

HealthSouth Corporation (NYSE: HLS) has further expanded its portfolio, acquiring the home health agency operations of CareSouth Health System, Inc. for $170 million in cash and merging them with those of Encompass Home Health, the national operator announced Monday. Along with the acquisition, the national home health, post-acute and senior living services provider CareSouth retains […]

HealthSouth Continues Home Health Expansion Through Hospital Alignment

Following its recent acquisitions of Reliant Health Services announced in June and Encompass Home Health in November, national operator HealthSouth is continuing to align its services strategically to position its home health offerings for growth. That includes locating home health operations near inpatient rehabilitation facilities, and focusing on a recent Centers for Medicare & Medicaid […]

Home Health Business Briefs: Encompass, Ensign Group

As one of the fastest-growing sectors in the United States, home health care is teeming with activity — from acquisitions and partnerships to new leadership appointments and promotions. Here’s the latest news buzzing around the industry: Hometown Home Health & Hospice Expanding Fleet in Central Michigan Hometown Home Health & Hospice is expanding and upgrading […]

Home Health Business Briefs: Encompass Home Health, AmeriCare, Medalogix

As one of the fastest-growing sectors in the United States, home health care is teeming with activity — from acquisitions and partnerships to new leadership appointments and promotions. Here’s the latest news buzzing around the industry: Medalogix Partners with Homecare Homebase Nashville-based health care analytics company Medalogix announced today its new partnership with Homecare Homebase, […]

HealthSouth Grows Post-Acute Services With $730 Million Acquisition

National post-acute care provider HealthSouth Corporation (NYSE: HLS) shows no signs of slowing down its expansive growth in the sector. On Thursday, the company entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the operations of Reliant Hospital Partners, LLC for a cash purchase price of $730 million. HealthSouth offers both facility-based and home-based post-acute care services […]