Eighteen home-based care companies managed to grab a spot on Entrepreneur’s recently released 2025 Franchise 500 ranking. Companies like Senior Helpers, Right at Home and FirstLight Home Care are making return appearances on the list after earning a spot last year. The fact that a number of home-based care franchise businesses are represented on the […]
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The spotlight on personal home care has gotten brighter in recent years, and that will continue in 2025. The population will continue to age, while payment models, regulatory policy and technological innovation will continue to enable more people to receive care in their preferred setting – their own home. But despite these tailwinds, the path […]
Company-owned — or corporate-owned — locations are generally a staple at home care franchise companies. These locations are largely associated with experimentation. In recent years, some franchise companies have chosen to double down on these locations, while others have not. Some have even gone in the other direction, and begun to re-franchise former company-owned locations. […]
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched the Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model on July 1, which aims to create more comprehensive, coordinated dementia care. Some home-based care providers have been named participants in the program, and many more plan to get involved. CMS hopes the GUIDE Model will improve the […]
Despite industry-wide staffing woes, home-based care providers are starting to notch some tallies in the win column when it comes to recruiting and retention. Senior Helpers is one of those providers. The company operates a handful of training centers, which allow them to upskill caregivers. Each center is modeled to replicate an apartment, including a […]
In a crowded home care ecosystem, companies are constantly looking for ways to stand out. For some that means putting innovative solutions in practice that will enhance operations and care services. For others, that means developing deep local roots to strengthen services in various communities. On top of this, home care companies are rolling out […]
The demand for personal home care services does not have a cap on it, and there will be more seniors than ever in the U.S. over the coming decade. But that doesn’t mean it’s an easy service to deliver right now. In 2024, providers need to find business models that actually make sense – from […]
The Medicaid Access Rule has been heralded by home care providers as a mostly good rule with one misguided piece: the 80-20 provision. And while that provision’s potential impact has been discussed ad nauseam, one area that hasn’t been considered as much is the effect it will have on private-pay home care providers. Billing rates […]
Thanks to impactful, large-scale transactions over the last decade, the collective face of home-based care has changed forever. Traditional providers in both home health care and personal home care have merged. Payers became involved in the home-based care space like never before. Of late, retailers have too. But it’s often easy to forget how the […]
One of the biggest home-based care deals of the year thus far was Waud Capital’s acquisition of Senior Helpers. The Maryland-based franchise – which was previously owned by the health system Advocate Health – will be the foundation of Waud Capital’s home care platform moving forward. Overseeing that platform will be Steve Jakubcanin, the home-based […]