Healthcare It News

JULY 13, 2022

The surgical pre-rehabilitation programme dubbed My Prehab was developed in partnership with Health Translation SA, The Hospital Research Foundation, and healthcare tech company Personify Care. The Central Adelaide Local Health Network has launched a new digital programme which aims to help make a patient fit for surgery.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 30, 2024

With nominations in the categories of Behavioral Health, Home Health & Home Care, Hospice & Palliative Care, Senior Housing & Senior Living, and Skilled Nursing (SNF), the program showcases exemplary character and performance of frontline workers across the care continuum.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 5, 2024

WTWH Media, LLC (“WTWH Media”) Healthcare is pleased to announce the inaugural class of the 2024 Memory Care Innovation Awards. WTWH Media Healthcare recognizes these passionate leaders that aim to define the future of aging in America.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 12, 2024

The Tyler, Texas-based Choice Health at Home is a home health, hospice, palliative care, rehabilitation and home care services provider. When making a decision, Choice Health at Home also asks how it would impact the company’s mission. “By It provides care to about 2,000 patients.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 25, 2022

One of them, the Central Adelaide Local Health Network , was able to launch a surgical pre-rehabilitation programme, which helps patients become fit for surgery. Personify Care has also powered the home care programme of St John of God Murdoch Hospital in Perth.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 28, 2022

Dozens of provider organizations in Michigan have gone out of business — and more are at risk of the same fate — due to the state legislature’s decision to cut the rates of home care and residential caregivers by 45%. That caused reimbursement to be below the cost needed to sustain an employee to provide care.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 26, 2024

Our value prop to hospitals when promoting palliative care is, ‘We want to continue these difficult conversations in a less stressful environment.’” The Tyler, Texas-based Choice Health at Home is a home health, hospice, rehabilitation and home care services provider that operates mainly in Texas, as well as Louisiana and Oklahoma.

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Home Health Care

JULY 18, 2022

To pull this off, the hospital has formed a partnership with the Visiting Nurse Association of Florida (VNA), a home health agency. Together, the two organizations have formed TGH Home Care, powered by VNA of Florida. In terms of the partnership, TGH Home Care will be operated by VNA.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 15, 2023

With 53 submissions in the categories of Behavioral Health, Home Health & Home Care, Hospice & Palliative Care, Senior Housing & Senior Living, and Skilled Nursing (SNF), the scope of creativity is broader than ever before. Aging Media Network (AMN) is proud to announce the 2023 Aspect Awards winners.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 7, 2022

Although Congressional support continues to grow for the Choose Home Care Act of 2021 in Washington, D.C., Other pieces of legislation for lawmakers have pushed the Choose Home bill down the priority list, but National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) President William A.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 4, 2023

Braff Group hires former Amedisys M&A expert The Braff Group has hired Kris Novak to become the firm’s new managing director of home health, hospice, home care and pediatrics. Pendley has been at FirstLight Home Care since 2018. Our aging population demands it and FirstLight is up to the challenge.”

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The Tyler, Texas-based Choice Health at Home is a home health, hospice, rehabilitation, and home care services provider. When it comes to ideal M&A targets, Jackson has a very clear profile of the types of companies Choice Health at Home is interested in purchasing.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

In the past, Compassus has also teamed up with personal care franchise company Synergy HomeCare. “I I think [about] three things with regards to the future of home care,” Jeff Marsh, chief growth officer at Compassus, said last month at Home Health Care News’ FUTURE conference.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 3, 2024

Home-based care highlighted BrightSpring is led by multiple home-based care veterans. He specifically led Kindred’s home health, hospice, home care and home-based primary care businesses. Mike McMaude, meanwhile, leads BrightSpring’s home health and hospice services segment.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 30, 2021

The health system’s home-based care arm CommonSpirit Health at Home is headquartered in Milford, Ohio. It offers specialized home care, home infusion, hospice and medical transportation services nationwide. There’s some sort of ability to feel like you’re in control of your care and your environment.”.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 1, 2023

According to data from Hoag Orthopedic Institute (HOI), traditional home health PT for post-surgical rehabilitation in 2021 accounted for 10.4% Overutilization of traditional home health poses a challenge in reducing post-surgical costs, especially as demand for those services continues to rise, the study argues.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 21, 2023

Geoff is a doctor of physical therapy and a certified wound specialist who joined Amedisys 14 years ago as an administrator and rehabilitation specialty director. Based in Indianapolis, Elevance Health is a large managed care company. It also is part provider, however, and has made in-home care a priority.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 26, 2022

“Our new partnership with Contessa exemplifies Memorial Hermann’s commitment to deploying innovative care models by transforming our service lines to put the patient experience front and center,” he said in a press statement. These patients will receive daily in-person and virtual visits from their care team.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 12, 2022

In-home care organizations combining operations. Public Health Management Corporation (PHMC) has announced its intention to affiliate with Visiting Nurse Association of Greater Philadelphia, the oldest and largest nonprofit home health, palliative and hospice provider in the region. It also has a 15-bed in-patient unit.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 15, 2022

This year’s Future Leaders Awards honorees are as follows: Home Health & Home Care. Hospice & Palliative Care. Congratulations to all of this year’s award recipients.”. – Chief Medical Officer, Theoria Medical Shawna Rainey – VP of Clinical Reimbursement, Ignite Medical Resorts.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 23, 2022

The Tyler, Texas-based Choice is a home health, hospice and rehabilitation services provider that has made some serious growth moves of late. The private equity company InTandem Capital Partners has completed a growth investment into Providence Care. It is the home-based care arm of the BayCare Health System. “We

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Home Health Care

JULY 14, 2023

The main headline was CMS’ decision to propose a home health payment decrease of 2.2%. As a response, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) filed a lawsuit against CMS and the U.S. These alternatives bear greater expense to the health care continuum as a whole and counters the goal of aging in place.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 1, 2023

Braff Group hires former Amedisys M&A expert The Braff Group has hired Kris Novak to become the firm’s new managing director of home health, hospice, home care and pediatrics. The Cincinnati-based FirstLight Home Care has about 200 locations across the country.

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Etactics

JUNE 29, 2023

Really the price of nursing home care depends on many different factors. In some cases, nursing home facilities have all-inclusive rates. Medicare Part A: Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Care First let’s look at Medicare Part A in a general scope. This coverage is good for: Hospital inpatient care. Home health care.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Despite a hot M&A market and more limited opportunities, Coltala was able to sift around until it found a home health provider it believed in with Choice. A growing company, Choice is a provider of home health, hospice and rehabilitation services with dozens of locations, primarily in the South. Manning: Yes, absolutely.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

DispatchHealth Raises $330M for Hospital-at-Home Care. DispatchHealth , a provider of in-home medical care raises $330M led by Optum Ventures with support from current investors such as Humana (NYSE: HUM), Oak HC/FT, Echo Health Ventures and Questa Capital.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Choice Health at Home appoints chief financial officer. Choice Health at Home has named Jeffrey Kreger the company’s chief financial officer (CFO). The Tyler, Texas-based Choice is home health, hospice and rehabilitation services provider. The company operates in 60 total locations across Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

BrightSpring provides care to complex populations. Its offerings include home health, personal care, hospice, neuro rehabilitation, pediatric therapy and behavioral health services, among others. Overall, its network spans across 50 states and over 360,000 clients and patients.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Lifespark is a Minneapolis-based senior care provider with both home health and senior living operations. The company’s other services lines include home care, hospice and primary care. American Health Partners is a Franklin, Tennessee-based post-acute care organization that offers home health and hospice services.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

My PhD was focused on rehabilitation engineering, so this was an area that wasn’t completely unknown to me. Two, you recently completed a deal with 24 Hour Home Care. Three, you’re not really your typical home health provider. We are pretty different from most home health providers.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Trive Capital, a Dallas-based private equity firm, has formed a partnership with Choice Health at Home. Tyler, Texas-based Choice is a home health, hospice and rehabilitation services provider. The company operates in 40 total locations across Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma, with over 800 licensed health care employees.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 17, 2022

starting with Choose Home. Potential cost-saving is what is attracting bipartisan support for this legislation,” Bill Dombi, president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), told Home Health Care News during a recent HHCN+ TALKS episode. How NAHC views the in-home care workforce situation.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In summer, hardly a week went by where Choice Health at Home wasn’t in the headlines. Founded in 2007 by David Jackson, a licensed physical therapist, Choice is a home health, hospice and rehabilitation services provider with dozens of locations in Texas, Oklahoma and a couple of other states. A significant opportunity’.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Bent Philipson is the founder of Philosophy Care , a consulting firm providing a range of services to skilled nursing facilities throughout New York and New Jersey dedicated to providing each resident with individualized care.

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NASHP

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

This priority is highlighted in Ohio’s effort to support family caregiving by setting an outcome and objectives to “improve home care workforce capacity and caregiver supports.” Ohio State Plan Outcome 12: Improve Home Care Workforce Capacity and Caregiver Supports Objective 12.1:

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Home Health Care

MARCH 16, 2022

The update came just over a week after a report surfaced claiming the Birmingham, Alabama-based company was receiving newfound acquisition interest from a group of suitors, including private equity firm Advent International and in-home care provider Aveanna Healthcare Holdings (Nasdaq: AVAH).

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Health Populi

MAY 16, 2023

.” Once cared-for, the patient can be discharged back into their community, “beyond-the-walls” to home or other neighborhood care site for post-acute care, rehabilitation, or therapy for continued care and restored well-being.

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