Advocate offloads senior home care business to private equity firm
Health Care Dive
MARCH 25, 2024
The health system is selling Senior Helpers to Waud Capital Partners just three years after it acquired the home care group.
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Health Care Dive
MARCH 25, 2024
The health system is selling Senior Helpers to Waud Capital Partners just three years after it acquired the home care group.
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The Food & Drug Administration’s device center launched an initiative to promote at-home medical device development with a focus on health equity in at-home care. Medical devices and other innovations that make acute and on-going at-home clinical management possible are receiving a boost in attention from FDA.
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Advocate Health has sold off its senior home care business Senior Helpers to private equity firm Waud Capital for an undisclosed sum, the organizations announced last week. Senior Helpers spans over 380 franchised and owned locations across 44 states, Canada and Australia. Its new owner is targeting further growth.
Home Health Care
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Home Health Care
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Home Health Care
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The home care veteran Jeff Bevis is taking on a new challenge as CEO of Concierge Care, a nurse registry platform. A co-founder of FirstLight Home Care and most recently the COO of Caring Senior Service, Bevis has been in home care franchising for nearly two decades.
Home Health Care
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The caregiver hasn’t shown up to care for their client during the shift, and they’ve left the home care agency without giving any notice. Generally, this is what’s known as caregiver ghosting, and it continues to be a challenge for home care providers.
Home Health Care
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Home Health Care
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Home Health Care
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This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership In a crowded home care ecosystem, companies are constantly looking for ways to stand out. For some that means putting innovative solutions in practice that will enhance operations and care services. We need more creativity around business models.
Home Health Care
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This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Home care companies have always had to deal with a gray market in senior care, or an “underground” caregiver workforce. But as the cost of providing care continues to rise, providers may find themselves in more of a bind than before. Get Membership Already a member?
Home Health Care
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Home Health Care
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Home Health Care
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Amid Medicaid changes, the most relevant news to home care providers is the aforementioned 80-20 provision, which will force HCBS providers to direct 80% of reimbursement to direct care workers. “We National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) President William A. We would advise against that.
Home Health Care
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Home Health Care
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Home Health Care
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Home Health Care
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The private equity firm Waud Capital has acquired the home care franchise Senior Helpers. The health system is now offloading its primary home care asset to a private equity company that has become very active in home-based care of late. The need for high-quality, in-home senior care has never been greater.
Home Health Care
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Home Health Care
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