How Amedisys, SSM Achieve Success With Disease-Specific Care Models

As the demand for personalized and effective health care solutions grows, home health care providers are implementing more sophisticated approaches to particular diseases. Today, home health care professionals can manage conditions such as strokes, heart failure and cancer, achieving successful patient outcomes and bottom-line benefits; however, reimbursement cuts pose a challenge. “We determine which conditions […]

Transactions: Legacy Care Partners Acquires Superior Home Health; SSM Health Bolsters Health at Home Arm

Legacy Care Partners Acquires Superior Home Health and Superior Hospice of Texas Legacy Care Partners – which also owns Advanced Home Care – has acquired Superior Home Health and Superior Hospice of Texas. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. “We extend a warm welcome to Superior Home Health and Superior Hospice into the Legacy […]

Business Briefs: Ensign Acquisition, LHC Group

Ensign Group Acquires Nevada Hospice Operations The Ensign Group (Nasdaq: ENSG), the parent company of the Ensign group of skilled nursing, rehabilitative care services, home health care, hospice care and assisted living companies, has acquired a hospice provider serving Southern Nevada through a subsidiary of its home health and hospice portfolio, Cornerstone Healthcare, Inc. The […]

Unpaid Overtime Lawsuit OK’d for Class Action Status

A lawsuit claiming that Midwestern home health care provider SSM Health at Home, formerly known as SSM Home Care, owes some of its caregivers unpaid overtime wages can move forward as a class action case, a district judge ruled. SSM Health at Home’s parent company, SSM Health, is a health care system based in St. Louis that […]