A few years ago, Charter Healthcare Group made waves as a rapidly growing post-acute care company. It largely accomplished this through a series of acquisitions, mostly eyeing smaller entities that allowed it to beef up palliative care and complex care management capabilities. Charter offers home health, hospice, complex care management and palliative care services across […]
The leaders at Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: AVAH) believe that the demand for home- and community-based care has never been higher. “As a reminder, we do not have a demand problem,” Aveanna CEO Jeff Shaner said during the company’s first-quarter earnings call on Thursday. With this in mind, Aveanna is focused on the labor […]
Many home-based care providers tend to offer both home health and hospice services. Thus, home health leaders pay close attention to proposed rules in hospice. Home health providers are still weeks away from getting a glimpse at their proposed rule for 2024. In terms of the main provisions, the proposed rule for hospice doesn’t contain […]
Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) has its new CEO. After a four-month-long search, the company’s board has named Richard Ashworth to the role. He will also serve as president. Ashworth is new to the company, unlike former CEO Chris Gerard, who was terminated from the company last November. He will officially take over on April 10. […]
Addus HomeCare Corporation (Nasdaq: ADUS) is performing well. But, to perform better, it wants to grow its home health segment and more fully engage in value-based care contracting. Now, Chairman and CEO Dirk Allison sees M&A as one of the key focuses in the near-term future. Also top of mind for Allison is the continuing […]
After seeing a 4% decline in traditional Medicare beneficiaries in the markets the company serves, Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) is working to build back up its home health fee-for-service business. That will start by working with referral sources and offering them a wide range of care services, according to Barb Jacobsmeyer, the president and CEO […]
Gentiva – the company comprised of the hospice and personal home care assets of what was formerly Kindred at Home – has agreed to acquire ProMedica’s Heartland home health and hospice assets for $710 million. Led by the former CEO of Kindred, David Causby, Gentiva is backed by both Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) and the […]
The creation of VitalCaring – April Anthony’s latest home health venture – is drawing expected attention. After all, Anthony is one of the biggest names in the industry. But since she stepped down from her role as CEO of the home health and hospice arm of Encompass Health Corporation (NYSE: EHC) in June 2021, she […]
Amid a difficult workforce environment, Jet Health isn’t just employing one strategy to combat staffing challenges. The company is beefing up its benefits packages and creating paths for future leaders as part of its efforts. That’s because its CEO, Stacie Bratcher, believes the workforce issues are long-term ones, and that there will never be a […]
AccentCare is one of the largest home health providers in the U.S. It has its main service lines – home health care, personal care and hospice – built out. The question is where a company with its size and diversification goes next. If you’re the CEO of AccentCare, Steve Rodgers, the answer to that question […]
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