Home Health Care News (HHCN) is the leading source for news and information covering the home health industry. HHCN is part of the Aging Media Network.

Jan 3, 2025 · AHN, a Highmark Health Company, is an integrated health care delivery system that includes 13 hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, health and wellness pavilions, an employed physician organization, home- and community-based health services, a research institute and a group purchasing organization serving the greater Western Pennsylvania region.

Jan 8, 2025 · Patients often visit one clinic for a specific service, a hospital for emergency care and yet another facility for urgent care, all of which differ from their primary care provider’s office or post-acute care.

Jan 8, 2025 · On Tuesday, New York Governor Kathy Hochul revealed the latest organizations that will collaborate with Public Partnerships LLC (PPL), the administrator of the state’s Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP).

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Jan 2, 2025 · When Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) acquired Contessa Health for $250 million in 2021, it changed the home-based care landscape. While other companies had been toying with high-acuity care in the home, that deal sent a clear message: Home-based care was becoming more than just Medicare-certified home health care and personal care services.

Dec 27, 2024 · The companies have signed a new waiver agreement that extends the deadline for their merger to either ten days after the final court decision in the ongoing DOJ lawsuit or Dec. 31, 2025, whichever comes first, according to the filing.

Dec 4, 2024 · LHC Group President and CEO Josh Proffitt on Wednesday shared a home-based, value-based vision for the company’s future. UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE: UNH) Optum acquired LHC Group last year for $5.4 billion. “Home Care remains deeply fragmented, disconnected and too difficult to navigate,” Proffitt said Wednesday.

Jan 6, 2025 · Merz Photography for HHCN | CC0 Danny Metzger-Traber (right) speaks at CONTINUUM For context, Mass General Brigham’s home hospital program was also preceded by a randomized control trial. “That gave us the confidence between the quality outcomes, and just the ability to really deliver this program to the right set of patients, that we have so much conviction and have scaled up the program ...

Nov 5, 2024 · Choice Health at Home is acquiring the Oklahoma City-based Accentra Home Health and Hospice. The company has also closed on $260 million of new leveraged capital to continue expanding throughout the Southwestern U.S., Choice CEO David Jackson told Home Health Care News.