Home Health

SAN DIEGO—Resmed, the health technology company focused on sleep, breathing and care delivered in the home, announced it has published a sleep study in "The Lancet", a peer-reviewed medical journal. The study shows the prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is projected to increase 35% over the next three decades, impacting 46% of all US adults.

BOULDER, Colorado—React Health announced it has expanded its post-sale warranty and non-warranty service program by signing Quality Biomedical as a national factory authorized service center (FASC).

HARTFORD, Connecticut—CareCentrix, a home-centered care company that coordinates care for health plans, patients and providers, announced that it is now operating as a private standalone company following its acquisition by Sycamore Partners, a private equity firm based in New York.

Sycamore acquired the business in partnership with Stefano Pessina and his family, who said they have reinvested 100% of their interests in CareCentrix.

WICHITA FALLS, Texas—Community Health Accreditation Partner (CHAP) announced that Healing Hands Healthcare has become the first home health provider in the United States to achieve CHAP’s High-Acuity Care at Home Certification.

The two-day, on-site certification survey was completed on August 20, 2025, in Wichita Falls, Texas. The screening process included home visits, record and personnel reviews and interviews with staff, patients and families.

NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas—NextGen Healthcare, a provider of cloud-based health care technology solutions, has been chosen by Arkansas Palliative Care to enhance billing and data integrity, expand patient access to care and boost staff and provider efficiency.

IRVINE, California—Comfort Keepers, a provider of homecare for seniors and adults who need assistance, announced its recognition among the top Home-Care Services for Seniors & Disabled in America’s Best of the Best rankings from Newsweek. This list recognizes brands across a range of metrics, including brand image, customer trust, value for money, reliability and customer service.

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona—Executive Home Care, a provider of in-home care services and member of the Evive Brands family, announced the second annual "Roses for Resilience" initiative. Building on 2024's successful launch, caregivers across the company's franchise network delivered hundreds of long-stemmed roses to senior clients, symbolizing appreciation, respect and human connection on Aug. 21, which was National Senior Citizens Day.

PORTLAND, Maine—BerryDunn, an accounting, tax and consulting firm, announced the release of the 2025 National Patient and Family Satisfaction Quality Improvement Project report, marking the culmination of a two-year research initiative aimed at improving the care experience in home health and hospice organizations nationwide.

OVERLAND PARK, Kansas—Allegiance Group has announced a strategic partnership with R2 Health, a health care software and services company focused on delivering patient-centric solutions for infusion providers. This partnership follows the integration of Allegiance Group’s COLLECTPlus platform with R2 Health’s system to streamline billing and improve cash recovery for providers.

BOSTON—CareAcademy, a provider of caregiver training and compliance technology, has been named a preferred training partner for CareConnect, a mobile-first caregiver management platform. The partnership launched first in New York, where it will serve the largest health care union in the country that has a focus on mission-driven education services.

ORANGE COUNTY, California—OneWell Health Care, a homecare provider of personalized home and community-based services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), announced the launch of its independent living services in Orange County under the Orange County Regional Center (OCRC).

BOSTON—Rendever, a provider of virtual reality solutions for aging seniors and hospice care, has launched a dementia and empathy training program for senior living professionals and caregivers. The interactive training program includes a suite of virtual reality (VR)-based paradigms that Rendever said are designed to empower individuals to understand, support and improve their approach to dementia care.

DALLAS—Homecare HomebaseSM, a software provider for home-based care, has opened nominations for the 2025 Home Care Aide Scholarship Program.

In its latest year, this annual program awards $2,000 scholarships to three homecare aides, honoring their dedication to the homecare industry while helping them further their education, grow professionally and continue building their careers in home-based care.

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia—The National Home Infusion Association (NHIA) has released a white paper examining the economic challenges facing home parenteral nutrition (HPN) services. The report, “Ensuring Sustainable Access to Home Parenteral Nutrition (PN): The Cost Crisis and Path Forward,” documents cost trends and reimbursement patterns affecting this therapy.

WASHINGTON—Tom Koutsoumpas, founder and CEO of The National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI)—which represents more than 120 nonprofit hospice and palliative care providers serving 20% of the nation’s hospice patients—has authored a guest commentary piece in U.S. News titled, “Everyone Deserves a Dignified Death. But Hospice Care Is Under Threat.” 

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia & WASHINGTON—The Research Institute for Home Care (the Institute) and the National Alliance for Care at Home (the Alliance) announced they have entered into an affiliation agreement. The companies said the agreement is "to strengthen and expand research efforts while further unifying the care at home movement." The agreement is effective immediately.

COLUMBUS, Ohio—In indictments filed this week by the office of Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, 10 Medicaid providers are accused of stealing a combined $1.9 million from Medicaid.

Nine home health aides and one provider of home-delivered meals face varying felony charges of Medicaid fraud and theft for allegedly billing Medicaid for services they did not provide. Two of the defendants alone account for more than $1.7 million of the alleged fraud.  

BOSTON—An Alabama-based doctor has been charged and has agreed to plead guilty in connection with an alleged $6 million telemedicine fraud scheme involving medically unnecessary durable medical equipment (DME) and genetic testing primarily used to detect mutations in genes that could indicate a higher risk of developing certain types of cancers.

BOSTON—The attorney general’s office (AGO) of Massachusetts announced that Union Home Health Care Services, a Worcester, Massachusetts-based group adult foster care (GAFC) provider, and its administrator, Bernice Codjia, age 41, pleaded guilty in Worcester Superior Court to charges related to a scheme to defraud MassHealth, the state’s Medicaid program, of more than $1.6 million.

MOORESTOWN, New Jersey—BAYADA Home Health Care announced the start of a leadership role transition that will conclude with current Chief Executive Officer David Baiada moving into a new role on the BAYADA Board of Directors upon the appointment of the company’s next CEO.