How Home-Based Care Providers Can Win Over Policymakers, Payers

Two groups of stakeholders that home-based care providers need to win over in the near-term future are payer leaders and policymakers. As Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollment grows, providers need to prove their agency’s value in order to maintain a sustainable business. Meanwhile, policymakers need to understand the value of home health and home care for […]

How ‘Workforce Sharing’ Could Help Fill Gaps In Home Care

In lieu of competing, home-based care providers may need to work together in order to keep up with the growing demand for services. Companies can do that by finding unique ways to deploy caregivers and leverage certain technologies to increase productivity. “We were challenged before the pandemic and we’ve certainly been challenged through the pandemic,” […]

‘There’s More to It Than This’: Home Helpers Launches Bundled-Services Program to Curb Hospitalizations

Home Helpers Home Care announced Monday that it’s rolling out a new service offering to fill care gaps and reduce preventable hospital admissions. The private equity-backed franchiser’s rollout comes as more non-medical home care organizations boost their care capabilities to better serve potential payer and referral sources. Home Helper had spent much of the past […]

[Updated] Health Care-Focused PE Firm RiverGlade Capital Acquires Home Helpers

Home care M&A experts knew that the dealmaking dominoes would start to tumble in 2021, pushed over by the recent agreement between Senior Helper and Advocate Aurora Enterprises. They didn’t know how fast that chain reaction would be, however. On Thursday, H.H. Franchising Systems Inc. — the Cincinnati-based company that operates Home Helpers Home Care […]

Turnover, Tiny Homes and New Technology: 2021 Predictions from 14 Home Care Executives

The U.S. home care industry is at an inflection point. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, an increasing number of payers and health care providers began to recognize the value of non-medical home care, particularly when it comes to chronic disease management and preventative care. That recognition has grown even stronger in 2020, with home care […]

CareFinders Adds to Executive Team; Home Helpers Lands New Marketing Talent

CareFinders announces new leadership hires CareFinders Total Care has expanded its executive leadership team, naming Glenn Williams as the company’s new chief financial officer and Mary Morrisey-Gabriel as its new senior vice president of growth. Founded in 1995, Hackensack, New Jersey-based CareFinders provides home health care services to more than 8,500 patients throughout New Jersey, […]

[Updated] Home Helpers CEO: FDA Authorization of At-Home COVID-19 Test Is ‘a Great First Step’

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has officially granted an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the first at-home COVID-19 test kit. The move could improve coronavirus testing for in-home care workers and their patients moving forward.   For now, health care workers and first responders who have potentially been exposed to the virus — or […]

Home Helpers CEO: Labor-Starved Providers Must ‘Hunt,’ Not ‘Fish’ for Caregivers

Total non-farm payroll employment rose by 225,000 in January, according to the most recent data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Meanwhile, the national unemployment rate was little changed at 3.6%, with notable job gains happening in construction, health care, transportation and warehousing. Translation: An already tight labor market is getting even tighter for […]