Top Home Health Trends For 2024

In 2023, the decreasing influence of COVID-19 did not mitigate the overall operating pressures home health providers were forced to face. In the new year, there still remains plenty of opportunity, but much to work through to tap into that opportunity. More proposed rate cuts to home health reimbursement are expected from the Centers for […]

Transactions: Gentiva Completes ProMedica Deal; Avid Health at Home Acquires Independence 4 Seniors

Gentiva officially acquires ProMedica’s home health, palliative and hospice business Gentiva has closed on its $710 million deal for ProMedica’s home health, palliative and hospice business. The deal was first announced in February. Now that it is finalized, the Atlanta-based Gentiva will boost its location count from 380 to 500, and its patient census by […]

Future Leader: Lauren McRae, Senior Director Of Clinical Operations, Innovive Health

The Future Leaders Awards program is brought to you in partnership with Homecare Homebase. The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. To see this year’s Future Leaders, visit https://futureleaders.agingmedia.com/. Lauren McRae, the senior director of […]

How 3 Home-Based Care Organizations Are Addressing Access-To-Care Issues In The Home

In some ways, addressing access-to-care issues is the ethos behind all at-home care. Moving care into the home, after all, eliminates numerous barriers that keep individuals from receiving care. Even though closing care gaps is in home-based care providers’ DNA, some are taking that a step further and focusing on a set of very specific […]

Mission Healthcare Appoints Next CEO, Home Health President; Right at Home Names New COO

Two executive leaders join Mission Healthcare After the news that Paul VerHoeve would be stepping down as CEO, Mission Healthcare has named Phil Spencer as his replacement. Backed by The Vistria Group, San Diego-based Mission Healthcare is a large, regional provider of home health, hospice and palliative care services in seven states. Before joining Mission […]

On Its Way To Becoming National Brand, In-Home Care Provider Innovive Health Expands

Innovive Health has entered a new state. The in-home care provider, which specifically serves complex behavioral health patients, has opened up shop in Colorado. The company already completes more than 20,000 patient visits per week in Massachusetts. And while it sees Colorado – and Colorado Springs, specifically – as an area with a high need […]

Home-Based Care Providers Still Hesitant On Idea Of ‘Workforce Sharing’

On the surface, the idea of workforce sharing seems like a promising one for home-based care providers. There’s the flexibility and convenience it offers, coupled with staffing shortages felt across the space. But some provider leaders are hesitant – for a number of reasons. “For our patients, consistency is key,” Innovive Health COO Kristen Palumbo […]

Future Leader: Nicholas D’Addabbo, Vice President of Strategy, Innovive Health

The Future Leaders Awards program is brought to you in partnership with PointClickCare. The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care. To see this year’s Future Leaders, visit https://futureleaders.agingmedia.com/. Nicholas D’Addabbo, vice president of strategy at Innovive Health, […]

Innovive Health Building In-Home Care Model Around the ‘Most Underserved Population in the Country’

Joe McDonough began his health care career in the hospital setting, mostly working with individuals with complex and chronic mental health conditions. After seeing so many of his patients return, he became determined to build a better care delivery model. That’s exactly what he’s doing at Innovive Health, a Massachusetts-based home health provider with a […]

For Complex Behavioral Health Patients, Home Health Is a Vehicle to Better Care

Innovive Health had been known to clients and payers as Nizhoni Health for nearly two decades. As it heads into a new brand stage, it wants the transformation to reflect the unique type of home-based care it offers. The Medford, Massachusetts-based provider serves complex behavioral health patients, who often have comorbidities, in their homes. Its […]