Dr. Steve Landers to leave VNA Health Group A very well known face in home health care is leaving the industry for a new leadership position. Dr. Steve Landers, the CEO of the Visiting Nurse Association (VNA) Health Group, is taking the helm at Hebrew SeniorLife, a Harvard Medical School-affiliated senior living provider that is […]
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FirstLight Home Care names new CEO FirstLight Home Care’s president of one year has also been named as the company’s CEO. Glee McAnanly, named president last year, will serve as the new CEO and will also handle executive leadership duties. “Since her promotion to president more than a year ago, Glee has been building the […]
Aetna is one of the most influential health care companies in the country. It’s also heavily invested in home-based care. Aman Gill, Aetna’s director of product strategy and innovation, told Home Health Care News last month that a home health acquisition was “on the table” for the company. This past week, at HHCN’s VALUE event, […]
Home-focused primary care providers have proven to be the next emerging faction of an ever-expanding home-based care ecosystem in the U.S. Unlike other emerging trends such as hospital-at-home and SNF-at-home models, which have largely been driven by traditional home health players or health systems, these providers are emerging on their own. But that doesn’t mean […]
GuideWell Mutual Holding Corporation subsidiary PopHealthCare recently launched value-based national medical group Emcara Health. The new company will focus heavily on home-based advanced primary care for seniors. “PopHealthCare will continue to exist and provide risk adjustment services while Emcara Health does the home-based care,” Kirk Stanley, president of PopHealthCare, told Home Health Care News. “If […]
Health plans — and the entities that own them — continue to invest heavily around in-home care. The latest example is GuideWell Mutual Holding Corporation, which announced a new “multi-year strategic investment” in subsidiary PopHealthCare on Wednesday. The company is not disclosing the exact size of the investment. “At GuideWell, we are committed to transforming […]
After steadily gaining steam over the last decade, in-home primary care models have reached a critical turning point in 2020. A handful of in-home primary care businesses have received multimillion-dollar investments to expand across the U.S., for example. At the same time, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is testing out new […]