The Next Frontiers for Home-Based Care Operators

Right now, there are three sections of home-based care that I see as core components to the concept: home health, hospice and personal care. There are companies that offer one, two or all three services in some spots. But there’s a growing group of home-based care providers that are hellbent on building out the “three […]

‘Perfect Storm’ of Staffing Challenges Continues to Batter Home-Based Care Operators

Staffing remains far and away the most pressing challenge for home-based care providers, a recently released report from Homecare Homebase and Home Health Care News found. But changing payment models and regulatory policies are still proving difficult as well. The findings are sure to be familiar to those in the home-based care industry, but they’re […]

Homecare Homebase Parent Company Hearst Strikes Deal for CellTrak

Last April, Addus HomeCare Corporation (Nasdaq: ADUS), Homecare Homebase (HCHB) and CellTrak announced they were teaming up to build “the industry’s first integrated, enterprise-level solution for all types of home-based care.” The next big step in that collaboration has come for two of those organizations. Hearst, the parent company of HCHB, has struck an agreement […]

Disrupt Podcast #50: Ralph Manning and Edward Crawford of Coltala Holdings

The 50th episode of our podcast, Disrupt, is now available!  For this episode of Disrupt, Home Health Care News sat down with Coltala Holdings co-founders Ralph Manning and Edward Crawford to chat about getting into the home health sector in 2021 through the acquisition of Choice Health at Home. Dallas, Texas-based Coltala Holdings is a holding company […]

Disrupt Podcast #49: David A. Bell of GrandCare Health Services

Most home health agencies are “generalists,” meaning they serve patients with a wide variety of in-home care needs. GrandCare Health Services, however, sees itself as an orthopedic rehab specialist, which is why it sold its non-medical home care division to 24 Hour Home Care in September. For this episode of Disrupt, HHCN caught up with […]

Disrupt Podcast #48: Tim Hanold of Care Advantage

In June, Searchlight Capital Partners acquired a majority stake in Care Advantage, one of the largest in-home care companies in the Mid-Atlantic region. Aside from giving the company more firepower for future M&A activity of its own, the deal will likely help Care Advantage accelerate its value-based care strategy. The in-home care provider already has […]

Disrupt Podcast #45: Darby Anderson of Addus HomeCare Corporation

The 45th episode of our podcast, Disrupt, is now available! Addus HomeCare Corporation (Nasdaq: ADUS) is one of the largest personal care services providers in the U.S., with growing footprints in both the hospice and home health spaces as well. Today, the home-based care provider delivers its services to about 44,000 consumers through 208 locations […]

Disrupt Podcast #44: Clem Moorer, Jr. of American Advantage Home Care

The 44th episode of our podcast, Disrupt, is now available! American Advantage Home Care is a small but rapidly growing home health provider located in one of Michigan’s most diverse cities. Founded more than a decade ago, the company was purchased by Cleamon Moorer, Jr., in 2019. Since taking over as president and CEO, Moorer […]

Addus, Homecare Homebase Co-Building New Tech Platform for a ‘Unified Patient Record’

Two in-home care powerhouses — a provider and technology company — are teaming up to build a new kind of data platform. On Thursday, Addus HomeCare Corporation (Nasdaq: ADUS) announced that it has entered into a joint software-development agreement with Homecare Homebase (HCHB) to build “the industry’s first integrated, enterprise-level solution for all types of […]