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SAN FRANCISCO—Included Health, a new kind of health care company delivering integrated care and navigation for people nationwide, announced it will introduce a unique, virtual
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Michigan—Boost Home Healthcare, a home health company that provides in-home nursing, therapy and homecare services, announced Larry Blacker as brand president. Bringing more than 20 years of homecare industry experience to the position, Blacker will oversee Boost Home Healthcare operations and procedures as the home health brand continues to expand across the country.
MIAMI—Independent Living Systems (ILS), a provider of health care and social services to complex populations in the Medicare, Medicaid and Dual-Eligible markets, announced it has been licensed as a home medical provider, meaning it can provide critical durable medical equipment for the home to partnering health care organizations and the general public.
A new platform developed by the Home Centered Care Institute (HCCI) merges and analyzes data to help health care organizations answer key questions about the rapidly expanding market of home-based medical care.
WATERLOO, Iowa—Essentially Women, a division of VGM & Associates, announced a partnership with Nymbl Systems, an all-in-one, cloud-based, billing and business management solution. Nymbl Systems said it prides itself on providing the best customer experience on an easy and desirable interface that is 100% cloud-based.
Telehealth Access for America (TAFA), an American Hospital Association-created campaign to protect patient access to critical telehealth services, urged Congress to make permanent certain Medicare telehealth flexibilities granted during the COVID-19 public health emergency and extended through 2024 by the Consolidated Appropriations Act.
In a Fact Sheet released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the department provided clarity regarding the future of federal flexibilities related to telehealth and tell prescribing to ensure patients may continue to access and receive the care they need.
LOUISVILLE, Kentucky—Health and well-being company Humana Inc. announced it has reached an agreement with two national organizations to provide durable medical equipment (DME) services to help Humana Medicare Advantage HMO members achieve their best health at home.
BURKBURNETT, Texas—HomeWell Franchising Inc., the franchisor of HomeWell Care Services, a non-medical in-home care provider and one of the fastest-growing homecare franchises in the nation, recently made strides toward supporting its rapidly expanding franchise network. This April, HomeWell launched Learning Lab, a new learning management system, for use across its franchise system.
MONTRÉAL—AlayaCare, a software as a service (SaaS) end-to-end home and community-based care platform developer, announced it is partnering with Carefor Health & Community Services, Eastern Ontario’s largest home and community care agency, to integrate AlayaCare Cloud. AlayaCare and Carefor are collaborating to integrate the AlayaCare Cloud platform to serve as the primary source of information and automation for Carefor back-office staff and frontline providers.
BOSTON—Healthy.io, known for transforming the smartphone camera into a medical device, announced the launch of a program with Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc, a research-driven pharmaceutical company, that will support at-home testing and provide educational information for patients at risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD).
PHOENIX, Arizona–Team Select Home Care (“Team Select” or the “Company”), a homecare platform that provides care primarily to protected pediatric patient populations, announced a strategic capital investment from Court Square Capital Partners, a middle market-focused private equity firm with $7.4 billion in assets under management.
PAWTUCKET, Rhode Island—Ageless Innovation, a global company devoted to reimagining how people positively live and age together through the power of play, announced its plans to reimagine three classic board games made by global branded entertainment leader, Hasbro, including The Game of Life, Scrabble and Trivial Pursuit.
ATLANTA—The van Halem Group announced Kit Shellhouse, director of business development, has been named as an associate board member to the Ohio Association of Medical Equipment Services (OAMES).
“Serving as an associate board member for OAMES is a privilege,” said Shellhouse. “To fight for our patients, state associations must continue to play a vital role in the business. Supporting providers from a local level to Capitol Hill on a state and national level is essential.”
On May 5, the World Health Organization released a statement determining the COVID-19 pandemic no longer warranted a public health emergency of international concern.
BANNOCKBURN, Illinois and BATON ROUGE, Lousiana—Option Care Health, Inc. ("Option Care Health"), the nation's largest independent provider of home and alternate site infusion services, and Amedisys, Inc., a provider of home health, hospice and high-acuity care, announced they have entered into a definitive merger agreement to combine in an all-stock transaction that values Amedisys at approximately $3.6 billion, including the assumption of net debt.
MEDFORD, Massachusetts & COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado—Innovive Health, a home health care agency serving complex behavioral health patients, announced it is expanding its behavioral health home care model to Colorado. The expansion comes as the nation’s health care system is facing a growing patient population with behavioral health needs and unprecedented staffing and economic pressures in the wake of the pandemic.
The American Association for Homecare (AAHomecare) hopes to bolster its advocacy capabilities in critical areas through the addition of Alexis Ward as Senior Director of Payer Relations, effective June 19, 2023.
